How many push-ups can you do?

That is impressive if that was a picture of you in the lounge - Gascoigne like fitness

 

Some of ya'll are full of ****.

 

I highly doubt some of you are using proper technique when you are quoting figures of 100+. Remember rounding of the back is bad technique. Ive never really tested how much proper ones i could do in one go, as i do mines in supersets with other excercies and in circuits at the gym. If i hazard a guess based on what i feel in circuits et al, i'll say 70, nearing the end would be a struggle.

Also, the lighter you are, the easier to do push ups. Someone of 130pounds i presume could do more push ups in one go than someone like me of 190lbs, it in no way means you are 'fitter' as decebal says.
You want to measure true fitness, do the bleep test coupled with 5 minute run, sets of deadlift etc

 

No its not ok. Arran, you are not fit if you cannot do 100 pushups in one go. Any other method of measuring fitness is irrelevant and obsolete.

 

how many of you can bench press more than your bodyweight??

 

70 at most. I usually do sets of 30 pushups during warming up.

 

Dude, I'm an actively competing amateur boxer, and I've been in the military for a time, and I don't do 100 push ups straight. If I was fresh and really pressed it out I could do maybe 60-65 push ups. But yet, I can compete and fight 4 rounds in amateur fights anmd I hit hard enough to keep people off me. Yet according to you, I'm not really fit. Maybe it's just I don't specialize in doing push ups. If you really practice it then yeah, anyone can build up to a lot of push ups. But it's not an indicator of fitness, just that you're good at push ups and the muscles involved in it are good at them.

 

I actually do bench press a bit, and do push ups. But I can't be ****ed to stay on my face and bang out 100 in a row, nor could I really at this time. Your point sucks.