If you can perform a high number of push-ups without stopping at 55 or older, your fitness level places you in a truly elite ...

This simple bodyweight test, recommended by top sports medicine experts, may reveal far more about your heart health than you ...

Many people who like to do calisthenics find the goal of doing 100 push-ups a fun challenge to attempt. Many are also working to build up to that number and get stuck at 75 for a considerable time ...

A quick and easy way to gauge overall fitness doesn’t require fancy equipment or lab tests—just a simple pushup test. According to Mayo Clinic, pushups serve as a solid indicator of muscular strength ...

You do not have to do hundreds of daily pull-ups and push-ups to improve your fitness test scores. Many do, and while they find success up to a point, following this routine for too long will ...

A study published this year evaluated push-ups as a simple, no-cost measure of CVD risk. It’s the first study to identify a relationship between push-up capacity at a baseline exam and CVD risk over ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Bodyweight exercises like pull-ups and push-ups test and build upper body ...

Whether you loved it or loathed it as a kid, the exercises can still be a revealing measure of health — now that no one’s forcing you to do them. By Danielle Friedman If you went to an American public ...