How Many Push-Ups Can Skeery Do

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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Episode Transcript

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, but.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
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 floor exactly, the
gravity part.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
You still have to carry your way to put you
do you do? No? No, no, it's resistant. I get it.
He 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 2 (02:11):
What y camera?

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Hol Okay 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 it again, trying to.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
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,
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.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
And you're just in your arm. 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 2 (02:59):
Do the knee push ups. Here you go stands down
on your knees to put your hands forward, forward or forward.

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

Speaker 3 (03:08):
You, 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 you
will not my forte. But you love set ups. You
say we'll sit ups. I'm a little better at you. No,
I just say spit ups. And then the jitter bug,

(03:33):
I mean the crush. What's the late the bug, ladybug
when you're on.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Your dead bug, the jitter bug like a dance for
your abs. Yeah, the jitterbug the dead I call it
the bed bug. You're looking good. You're looking good, scary.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
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. Yeah, you're looking good.
It's just I would expect you to do one. You
have to work your way up to the post.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
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. I'm okay, I'm
not that great.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
I'm not. 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.