It's how to test your fitness - Guidelines released by the Mayo Clinic show how many push ups a healthy person should be able to do at one time, and let’s just say they’re a little unrealistic ...

Spc. Lucas Johnson, a Georgia National Guardsman, pushes to max the push-up event on the Army Physical Fitness Test during the Region III Best Warrior Competition at Camp Butner, N.C., May 15 ...

Benefit: Push-ups test your chest and arm strength and your endurance. They have been a boot-camp staple for generations — the only part of the fitness test that has endured since 1944.