Push-ups can reflect a person's health well. The American media published a new study on push-ups by researchers yesterday.

Being able to complete a standard push-up shows that you can still resist aging.

Push-ups: a barometer of physical condition

Can detect every part of the body.

Push-ups are a barometer of physical condition. It can detect every part of the body, including the muscle groups of arms, chest, abdomen, buttocks and legs. It requires the whole body to lie flat, and only the toes and palms touch the ground can support the whole body to move up and down. Even people in good health will find it difficult.

"Only your body and weight participate in sports," said Steven Astor, director of the Vocational Education College of Missouri Western State University and professor of physical education. "If you want to show your physical strength or energy, push-ups are the easiest and quickest way."

But many people can't do push-ups at all. Health and fitness experts, including those from the American College of Sports Medicine, have been calling for more attention to physical exercise. Those aerobic exercises only emphasize cardiovascular health and divert people's attention from physical exercise. In one study, researchers from Oriental University in South Carolina gave 70 children aged 10~ 13 a push-up test, and half of the boys and three-quarters of the girls failed.

Reflect people's anti-aging ability

Push-ups are also important for the elderly. Whether you can complete at least one standard push-up exercise can reflect whether a person has anti-aging ability.

Biomechanics researchers in the elderly point out that push-ups provide the body with the strength to stretch forward and the muscle memory to prevent falling. When a person leans forward, he will naturally jump forward to balance his body, and finally end up in a position similar to push-ups: hands on the ground, wrists and arms absorb all the impulse, and elbows are slightly bent to relieve the impulse. And people who can't even do push-ups may not be able to protect themselves when they fall. "In short, you must have the pull-up strength," said Pete mcginnis, a professor of physical education at new york State University and an adviser to the American Athletics Association.

I earned 1000 dollars in 23 minutes.

Natural aging leads to the deterioration of nerve and muscle function. Between the ages of 20 and 70, people's physical strength will drop by 30%, but regular exercise can thicken muscle fibers and make the remaining muscles stronger.

"Women are especially bad at this sport because they are born with 20% less muscles than men. Many women have to bend their knees to support their bodies when doing downward movements. Although everyone can do push-ups, they are still regarded as a typical male fitness mode. " Scott Clemmer, a fitness instructor in Pennsylvania, pointed out.

According to American national standards, a 40-year-old woman should be able to do 16 push-ups and 27 men of the same age; For the 60-year-old, the number drops to 17 men and 6 women, slightly lower than that of soldiers who regularly take push-ups tests.

If it is too difficult to do push-ups on the ground, you can start doing push-ups from a plane that is 45 degrees from the horizontal plane, and then gradually move to the stairs and the ground. Lalanne, the American "Mr. Fitness", once set a world record of completing 1000 push-ups in 23 minutes. To this day, he still regards push-ups as a compulsory course every day. Now he can leave the ground and do push-ups with the help of three stools, "so that when he goes down, he will fall lower than on the ground." Lalanne said, "Of course, the difficulty has also increased."