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Welcome back everybody.

Fun show for you here today, getting back to those training Thursday routes.

We're going to be going over how many push-ups should you be able to do.

And not as a vanity metric and for social media,

although I would love to hear right now

how many pushups can you do?

Please do feel free to put that in the comments.

They'd just like to be able to gauge

where people are at right now. but really being able to do a pushup,

or as you're going to see many push-ups, is a real indicator of upper body strength.

For example, did you know that when you're doing a push-up you're

lifting about 75% of your body weight and if you're doing it from the knees,

which I'm going to teach who should be doing it from the knees, you're lifting

about 60% of your body weight.

So, still a pretty good amount.

Now, when we look at upper body strength, this is one of those areas that rapidly begins

to decline after the age of about 30 years old.

And the reason this happens is that we're simply less active than we used to be.

We sit down more than ever, like I am part of that as well well that's why I make sure I get my

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