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steve(ill) 
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Posted: 06 Mar 2025 at 6:12pm |
Based on data from Mayo Clinic, below is a breakdown of how many push-ups men and women should be able to complete based on age.
People in their 30s should be able to do at least 19 (women) and 21 (men). People in their 40s should be able to do at least 14 (women) and 16 (men). People in their 50s should be able to do at least 10 (women) and 12 (men). People in their 60s (both genders) should be able to do at least 10 push-ups. Benefits of push-upsWeight-bearing exercises like push-ups can help increase bone density, which is particularly important as people age, according to Pagett. "This is a major benefit of exercises with high resistance," "Strength in the upper body and core are two things that translate to everyday life, and the ability to push yourself off of the floor regularly is one that many people take for granted." Push-ups mainly work the pectoral muscles (chest), with the triceps being secondary in the motion, with the core (abdominals) supplying the strength to hold the body straight through the motion, according to Pagett.
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JW in MO
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Posted: 06 Mar 2025 at 6:54pm |
I'm over 60, I figure I can do 10 a day easy.
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Posted: 06 Mar 2025 at 7:40pm |
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Dogs are always in the pushup position
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Posted: 06 Mar 2025 at 8:30pm |
wonder how many 'tosses of snow shovels full of white' equal ONE pushup ??? and
how many can the guy who made the chart do ???? in the rain like Bill Murray in STRIPES ??
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Posted: 07 Mar 2025 at 8:42am |
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I'm over 60, I figure I can do 10 a day easy.
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Have you tried? It is quite challenging
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Posted: 07 Mar 2025 at 9:34am |
I do one set of 30 every Monday morning, and hate every one of them! Thing is, no-one is more responsible for our health than the individual. Trying to maintain mine, (at least a little bit) as I near retirement.
Health is really east to take for granted, until it is gone.
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Posted: 07 Mar 2025 at 9:38am |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2025 at 9:52am |
IBWD MIke wrote:
I do one set of 30 every Monday morning, and hate every one of them! Thing is, no-one is more responsible for our health than the individual. Trying to maintain mine, (at least a little bit) as I near retirement.
Health is really east to take for granted, until it is gone. |
My pushups are off the Bed or Off the Floor in my shop, I am well passed Retirement.
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Posted: 07 Mar 2025 at 9:56am |
IBWD MIke wrote:
I do one set of 30 every Monday morning, and hate every one of them! Thing is, no-one is more responsible for our health than the individual. Trying to maintain mine, (at least a little bit) as I near retirement.
Health is really east to take for granted, until it is gone. |
Good plan. I have not developed a routine as I should. Was up to 15 and dropped the ball.
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Posted: 07 Mar 2025 at 12:04pm |
plummerscarin wrote:
JW in MO wrote:
I'm over 60, I figure I can do 10 a day easy.
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I know I could eat 10 of the Schwan’s ones but they’re out of business now. My Freshman year of high school, my principal was my PE teacher, we do 100 sit ups every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and he did them right along with us.
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Posted: 07 Mar 2025 at 12:34pm |
JW in MO wrote:
plummerscarin wrote:
JW in MO wrote:
I'm over 60, I figure I can do 10 a day easy.
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I know I could eat 10 of the Schwan’s ones but they’re out of business now.
My Freshman year of high school, my principal was my PE teacher, we do 100 sit ups every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and he did them right along with us. |
ah sit ups! When I was in 8th grade I broke the sit ups in a minute record. Only held it for a year when another kid squeezed out one more. At age 17, I did 172 sit ups in 3 minutes. 180 was considered a perfect score for that test. Probably take me a few days to do that many now!
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Posted: 07 Mar 2025 at 12:40pm |
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Could not do that many in a week now, Basic Training was stop drop and give the DI fifty, to which may hit twenty but made best effort. Just a Yelling fest beyond that.
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Posted: 07 Mar 2025 at 12:50pm |
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As for push ups, I remember in 9th grade PE our teacher was plenty appalled (or said so anyway) that kids these days were weak and any boy our age should be able to rip off 50 at any given time. Myself and one other kid got over 40 though I don’t remember the number. It helped that in 9th grade I probably weighed maybe 140 pounds soaking wet but had hay baling strength in my arms. For a good week or more he harped on push ups. We had to keep doing them until he told us we could stop, meaning do until you couldn’t do any more, rest a bit, do as many as you could, rest, etc. Had some mighty stiff muscles for a while!
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Posted: 08 Mar 2025 at 4:24am |
plummerscarin wrote:
IBWD MIke wrote:
I do one set of 30 every Monday morning, and hate every one of them! Thing is, no-one is more responsible for our health than the individual. Trying to maintain mine, (at least a little bit) as I near retirement.
Health is really east to take for granted, until it is gone. |
Good plan. I have not developed a routine as I should. Was up to 15 and dropped the ball. |
Get on it man, this is as good a reminder as any.  Heck I'm only 43 & considering the week I've had with my shoulder (agony! Initially thought rotator cuff, but then went more like a trapped nerve, now it's back to being muscular but finally on the mend!) I think I ought to start looking after the old carcass a bit better now while I have time.
Think pushups are out of the question for the moment but would much rather a little pain every day hereon in than a LOT of pain all at once later, going on how this shoulder made me feel.
Does pain tolerance decrease as we age or something? I've sprung the ligaments in this shoulder 15 or so years back & pinched a nerve then too & don't recall it keeping me awake at night or making me sit in strange poses the way this one did!
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Posted: 08 Mar 2025 at 4:50am |
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Age related arthritis is my claim to fame, forty five years of beating on my hands, joints, wall mount vertical ladders with 5/8” bar stock rungs, heavy work climbing or scaling and the punishment of heavy tools. Finally had enough after twenty years of drills and training as firefighter at the nuke and local volunteer swinging SCBA dragging charged hose lines, all while wearing 80lbs of gear to boot. Body is tired and so am I.
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