How many Press-ups in 2 minuets?

My Dad has just bought me 'The official British Army Fitness Guide' book and it has some useful exercises on how to improve my strength and fitness.

It would be interesting to see how many press-ups you guys can do within 2 minutes (boys and girls). The book has a table that is a good indicator of upper body muscular endurance and i'll write it up so you can see how good you are after a few of you have posted how many you have done!

So get doing your Press-ups soldier! :rolleyes:

(btw, real pressups)

Heres the table:

under 30 yrs old

for boys...
excellent = 72+
very good = 53-71 (made a typo here earlier but now its corrected)
good = 44-52
average = 34-43
below average = 0-33

for girls....
excellent = 55+
very good = 38-54
good = 29-37
average = 21-28
below average = 0-20

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Reply 1

Fynch101

I can do 87 in two minutes, Im guessing thats better than everyone else too.

Just did 53

So whats 54 to 72?

61 and a half

Depends on how long a minuet is. If it's Bach's minuet in G minor, then....

(Managed to clock 62 in a minute just now, but it's only morning, and I couldn't be arsed to carry on for another minute)

Reply 7

username156343

I'll try later. I will probably fail at 10 or something.

Reply 8

Fixed04

my friend who is in the coastguard training program at college can do 120+ in 2 minutes. He's got bootcamp in 2 weeks, good luck him :biggrin:

Reply 9

Brotherhood

Wait, Minuets?

If we're talking Bach, maybe:

Reply 10

Veggiechic

Depends on the type of pressups. Tricep ones are really hard! And some people don't do pressups properly, and don't bend their arms much

I'm training for the RAF so I've been practicing pressups but I haven't timed myself! I'll get back to you on that one