40 Pushups and your good.

[wal]

It's not a problem for Chuck Norris.

That is right only he can do it.

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[Samuel65]

Yeah 50 pushups at once

[Bestafter60]

It is just physics. The mass of the earth is 5.98 x 10 to the 24 power Kg and when you do pushups you are not pushing up as such but pushing away the mass of the earth. Where as a benchpress you may press say 50Kgs therefore you are pushing away from the the mass of the earth only 50Kgs. F=mxa Force = mass x acceleration (9.8) therefore 50kg x 9.8 = 490 Newtons. If you use the same equation for a pushup against the mass of the earth 5.98 x to the 24th power Kg x 9.8, well that is a heaps of Newtons, so the bench press is easier. Ha!

This is precisely why I place my arms at an angle while doing pushups. Only a few "insiders" know that, at the right angle, you can cut the weight of the earth in half.

[Epictetus8540]

If you can do 40 or more pushups your heart health is good. So the research says.

Can any of you old buggers do 40 or more?

You mean like... in a row??

[SeanThornton]

If you can do 40 or more pushups your heart health is good. So the research says.

Can any of you old buggers do 40 or more?

Men Who Can Do More Than 40 Push-Ups Far Less Likely To Develop Heart Disease - Study Finds

Association Between Push-up Exercise Capacity and Future Cardiovascular Events Among Active Adult Men. | Cardiology | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network

Sounds like a BS premise for an article.

YES, if you can do 40 pushups, the chances of your heart health being bad is very small.

BUT, do we then conclude that if you can't do 40 pushups, then your heart health is bad?

I can think of lots of reasons why a person couldn't do 40 pushups, all unrelated to heart health. And guess what? Many of those said persons could train it for a while and then be able to do 40 pushups. Now, did their heart health improve during that training, or did they just get better at doing pushups?

Conditioning != heart health

[bikesandcars]

Correlation does not mean causation: Correlation does not imply causation - Wikipedia

XYZ bodybuilder can squat 315 lbs after following all aspects of SS for a few months. If you do SS you can squat 315 lbs. That is an example of causation.
XYZ bodybuilder can squat 315 lbs. He eat's McDonald's 3 days a week (after his workout). If you eat Eat McDonalds 3 times a week you can squat 315 lbs. That is an example of correlation.

Sure being able to do 40 straight pushups means you are generally in shape and belong to a community of people who are generally fit and watch what they eat, but by no means does doing 40 pushups alone cause you to be healthy, it is just an interesting correlation.