How Many Pushups Can You Do?
In Stephen R. Covey’s book “The 8th Habit” he describes an experiment he often conducts when he is teaching an audience. On page 117 of my copy he writes,
“I invite a man who looks very strong and healthy to come up in front and do twenty straight-back push-ups. If he is truly strong and practiced, he can do it fairly easily. But very few can; even many who appear strong and healthy hardly make it past five or six.”
This statement really surprised me. Is it really that uncommon for men to be able to do more than just a few pushups?
So I mentioned this to my wife Amber, and she said that I ought to do a survey to see how many people really can do. Thus challenged, I created a simple survey on Facebook that I invite you to take. I promise to never reveal any individual results (likely, Facebook won’t expose them anyway), but please take a bit of time to help me out. Find a minute, one morning or just before you go to bed. Don’t work your way into it, don’t practice for a month or anything. Just drop down and see how many you can do, and then submit your results in the survey.
I’ll run the survey until the end of January and then summarize what we find with a post at the end of the month.
Again, here’s the link to the survey: here
