How many press-ups and sit-ups in the Royal Navy?

As soon as I have completed my GCSEs I will be heading off to Naval Training... But there is one question I stupidly forgot to ask my recruiter... How many press-up and sit-ups must I be able to do in Royal Navy fitness test?

Reply 1

TorpidPhil

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Surely they won't have a set limit given that your weight will make it easier or difficult and your technique?

Reply 2

sw651

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Original post by TorpidPhil

Surely they won't have a set limit given that your weight will make it easier or difficult and your technique?

They do, I believe it is 20 full press ups in a minute

Reply 3

user73867

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Press ups 23

Sit ups 39

For a male between 17-24.

However, you should be absolutely blowing these benchmarks out of the water. Ideally, you want to be looking at 80+ press ups in under 2 minutes and around the same amount of sit ups if you want to stand out.

Best of luck during training!

(edited 8 years ago)

Reply 4

TorpidPhil

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Original post by sw651

They do, I believe it is 20 full press ups in a minute

Well, that's piss anyway even if you are 18stone!

Still silly to use push-ups though... when they're a bodyweight exercise.

Reply 5

danr2

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Original post by Supersaps

Press ups 23

Sit ups 39

For a male between 17-24.

However, you should be absolutely blowing these benchmarks out of the water. Ideally, you want to be looking at 80+ press ups in under 2 minutes and around the same amount of sit ups if you want to stand out.

Best of luck during training!

you just made me do 23 press ups in 35 seconds :biggrin:

(edited 8 years ago)

Reply 6

user73867

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Original post by danr2

you made me do 23 press ups in 35 seconds :biggrin:

Welcome to the Royal Navy! :wink:

If you fancy doing some more, there's normally a group of us that do a workout at 2100 everyday to keep active. Let's see what you can do!

Which is in 5 minutes.
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3889347

Reply 7

sw651

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Original post by TorpidPhil

Well, that's piss anyway even if you are 18stone!

Still silly to use push-ups though... when they're a bodyweight exercise.

Heres the catch though. There are also things like a run with a pack too!

Reply 8

danr2

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Original post by Supersaps

Welcome to the Royal Navy! :wink:

If you fancy doing some more, there's normally a group of us that do a workout at 2100 everyday to keep active. Let's see what you can do!

Which is in 5 minutes.
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3889347

2100 push ups in 5 mintues or am i getting it wrong? :biggrin:

(edited 8 years ago)

ez m8

Original post by Supersaps

ez m8

haha easy? there are 300 seconds in 5 mintutes so i wonder how you do 2100 push ups in that time. you can't even do 300 push ups in 300 seconds :biggrin: