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November 13, 2024 4 mins
Mayo Clinic announced how many push-ups someone in "good shape" should be able to do, so we put that to the test... with Skeery as our guinea pig.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the morning show.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
The Mayo Clinic posted this number of push ups people
in good shape should be able to do at any age.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Now, well, no you're not. Now you don't. Well listen listening, okay.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
For example, a twenty five year old man should be
able to do twenty eight in a row, twenty for
a woman.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Okay. By fifty five, it drops. Oh, listen to your froggy.
That's it.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
No, that's it. Would I would, I would have thought
it was supposed to be more. I thought less. Look,
you know, if.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
You're not conditioning your upper body, you're not working out.
You can mean in good shape and still not do
them because those muscles aren't there ready to go.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
All right.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
So here it is the signs that you're at least
in good shape. Twenty five years old, twenty push ups
for women, twenty eight for men at twenty five, thirty
five years old, nineteen for women, twenty one for men. Oh,
forty five years old, fourteen for women, team for men.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Oh, this is interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Fifty five years old. Ten for women, twelve for men,
and sixty five it's ten ten. It's same for about
sixty five years old. It declines over with age.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
But those numbers for men drop off much more steeply
than for women.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
I don't know why. Huh call the aos?

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Are you guys? Okay, I'm astrophying and this is actually
I don't even know if I do like a real
like you know how you have to This is a
specific way you have to do the push up in
order for it to count, like you know what I mean?
Like I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
I don't know if I do that to do my
own thing? Scary?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh no, see how you do? Amazon, You've been working
out a lot lately.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Well, I could do hands. You know the part where
you put.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, I mean like the going down part, going down
part you get laid down on the.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Floor exactly, the gravity part you still have to carry
your way to put you do you do?

Speaker 4 (01:56):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:56):
No, no, it's resistant, I get it. Pulsion will show us,
show us, show us right here, scary goodness, you'll be great.
You're making noise on even Do I at least get
like one of those yoga mats? No?

Speaker 4 (02:11):
What y camera?

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Hold?

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Here you go? Oh geez, Okay, you have good form position?
All right? Okay, so I could do that. Yeah, I can't.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Okay, you can't even do one.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
You're kidding, right, Okay, I'll try.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
It again, trying to You gotta focus, focus, scary focus. Okay, here,
how about not going all the way down, just to
just halfway down? Okay, now it's the last time he
said that. Oh boy, wow, se doing the half push
ups are good? Those are fine.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
It's they're not.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
No, but there isn't there another way you can do
it where you're where your feet are crossed and you're
on your knees and you're just in your arm.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
You can be on your knees. Yeah, yeah, the modified
push up right knee push ups.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
You know how to do that?

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Do the knee push ups. Here you go stands down
on your knees to put your hands forward, forward.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
Going forward.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
You gotta keep going, keep going forward.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
You gotta go further down.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, you're not you're not well.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
No, hold on. That's a good way to get up
to regular push ups. It's a good way to get up. Period.
You're doing you're doing great. Scary, you're working out a
couple of times a week. You're doing great. Try not
my forte. But you love set ups. You say, well,
sit ups.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
I'm a little better, you know, I just say spit ups.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
And then the jitter bug, I mean the crush. What's
the late the bug, ladybug when you're on your dead bug,
the jitter bug like a dance.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
For your abs. Yeah, the jitterbug the dead I call
it the bed bug.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
You're looking good. You're looking good, scary. I love it.
He's been working out for a solid year. You can't
do one legitimate. What do they they've been maybe they
haven't been focusing on it.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, you're looking good. It's just I would expect you
to do one.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
You have to work your way up to the po
you really do.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Here's for next year.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Wait, we do have some pie in here, you Ben,
you can push that down his throat.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
I'm okay, I'm not that great. I'm not.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
I'm not sitting here saying that I'm great at it.
All right, he's so out of breath. Okay, yeah, he'll
be okay, he'll be okay.
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