Push-ups by age: Here’s how many you should be able to do

How galore push-ups tin you bash — and however does that stack up with others your age?

That was the question posed by "Fox & Friends," which invited viewers to nonstop successful their ain videos showing their push-up prowess.

In a Thursday greeting segment, "Fox & Friends" hosts Lawrence Jones and Brian Kilmeade competed successful an on-air push-up situation of their own, some successfully reaching their property goals.

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"While each assemblage is different, the fig of push-ups you tin bash is often a bully indicator of someone's muscular spot and endurance," Regis Pagett, laminitis and proprietor of R Personal Fitness successful New York City, told Fox News Digital.

In a Thursday greeting segment, "Fox & Friends" hosts Lawrence Jones and Brian Kilmeade competed successful an on-air push-up situation of their own, some successfully reaching their property goals. (Fox News)

Based connected information from Mayo Clinic, beneath is simply a breakdown of however galore push-ups men and women should beryllium capable to implicit based connected age.

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People successful their 30s should beryllium capable to bash astatine slightest 19 (women) and 21 (men).

People successful their 40s should beryllium capable to bash astatine slightest 14 (women) and 16 (men).

People successful their 50s should beryllium capable to bash astatine slightest 10 (women) and 12 (men).

People successful their 60s (both genders) should beryllium capable to bash astatine slightest 10 push-ups.

Benefits of push-ups

Weight-bearing exercises similar push-ups tin assistance summation bony density, which is peculiarly important as radical age, according to Pagett.

"This is simply a large payment of exercises with precocious resistance," helium told Fox News Digital. 

Weight-bearing exercises similar push-ups tin assistance summation bony density, which is peculiarly important arsenic radical age, a fittingness adept noted. (iStock)

"Strength successful the precocious assemblage and halfway are 2 things that construe to everyday life, and the quality to propulsion yourself disconnected of the level regularly is 1 that galore radical instrumentality for granted."

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Push-ups chiefly enactment the pectoral muscles (chest), with the triceps being secondary successful the motion, with the halfway (abdominals) supplying the spot to clasp the assemblage consecutive done the motion, according to Pagett.

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A erstwhile Harvard survey showed that the quality for men to bash 40 oregon much push-ups astatine 50 years aged decreases the accidental of cardiovascular illness by 96% compared to men who could bash 10 oregon less, Pagett noted.

For those looking to enactment up to doing push-ups, 1 enactment is to commencement by doing them connected the knees. (iStock)

"The survey besides recovered that each push-up done aft 10 had a decreased accidental of cardiovascular disease," helium added.

Getting started with push-ups

For those looking to enactment up to doing push-ups, Pagett recommends starting by doing them connected the knees.

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Another enactment is to bash "negative push-ups," successful which the idiosyncratic starts from a gangly plank presumption and dilatory lowers the assemblage to the floor.

With incline push-ups, the idiosyncratic tin usage an elevated aboveground and enactment their mode down to the floor. 

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"You tin besides commencement by incorporating thorax property with dumbbells, oregon adding the thorax alert and/or tricep hold into your gym routine," Pagett suggested.