I love Dr. Oz, one of Oprah's health gurus and co-author of You On a Diet (the healthy life style tome that motivated my hubbie to actually use our elliptical). Dr. Oz has some specific ideas of how to measure fitness and since push-ups are one of my favorite exercises I thought I would see if you all knew what the Doc expects of us in this exercise.
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45?? Man, I have some work to do!
1Wow! 45 sure is a lot... I think I can do half of that!
haha! I'll definitely get
working on those consecutive push-ups! 
2yikes....I guess being in the Army had its perks for me because all those years of push-ups make these numbers seem low....I thought all the choices were to small to begin with..
Push-ups are an awesome workout, everyone should try them. The best thing about them is the more you do, the easier they get and the more toned you look!
335 no problem, 45 though! Yipe... I'll try and do it!!
4(I don't do the modified ones; I might have to for the last 10)
5Wow I can only do like 10. I need to work out more!
6I'm with goodbyekitty
7I can do 25, but 45!!!!!!!!! OMG. I have lots of work to do...
8Is this right? Women should be able to do more than men? Seems odd!
9kellyanne, I think for men they are unmodified.
10Let me test this out....
(pause for test)
wow i just did 45 but it hurt a LOT!
11I love Dr. Oz so this quiz was easy! However actually doing the push-up's are far from easy, it's tough (for me.)
12i figure if a woman could do 45 modified push-ups, shouln't she switch to doing fewer regular push-ups?
13I never do modified pushups.. never have. 45 of them just seems overly easy to me. I don't see why you would unless you're trying to build up to regular ones.
14Well I guess I shouldn't be too down. I can do them and then feel like my arms are about to fall off!!
15Geez. 0/2 - I haven't done 45 in a row for a looooong time. I thought my 25 reps was good enough. Boo.
16If it weren't the middle of the night right now I would totally test myself right now! But since it is I'll just tell myself that I can do it, so that I can go to sleep assured, and not deal with the cold hard reality of my push-up abilities until the morning!
17Dude...45! Well...at least I have something to work towards.
18crap, I got to 30 and pooped out. I'll work on this better now!
19I have trouble doing 20.
20hahaha yikes I can probably do 12 tops for the 'real' pushups.. maybe 20 modified
21I thought for sure men would be expected to do more than women. . . Looks like I've got some work to do.
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