When you're in the military, you are held to a high standard for physical fitness. Each branch has their own test for measuring physical fitness. In the Army, we do pushups, situps, and a 2-mile run. Each category is based on a point system. Depending on the number of repetitions you do for your age and gender will determine your score. It's been a while since I've done any pushups myself so I thought it would be fun to see if I could still meet the minimum requirements. For my age group I have to do 36 pushups.
In this video, I will challenge other veterans to see if they can still meet the minimum requirement. Record a video of yourself doing the minimum or maximum amount of pushups for your gender, age, and branch of military service. If you can meet the minimum, I will send 1 SBD from shadow3scalpel, and if you can get the maximum amount I will send you 2 SBD. If you can't meet the minimum, I'll give you one month to get back into the standards. If you have a shoulder injury, I want to see 10 minutes of cherry pickers!
Rules
- Must be a verified veteran or service member (see @chairborne's followed list)
- Upvote and resteem this post
- Post your video on your steemit blog
- Leave a link to your post in a comment below
- http://www.apft-standards.com/pushup-male.html
- http://www.apft-standards.com/pushup-female.html
Are you in Greencountry? That sure looks like my backyard there
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central Oklahoma
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I did it! I wasn't sure I could still pull it off, but I did!
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Nicely done!
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I'm honestly surprised I managed to pull it off lol. I really thought I'd struggle a lot more, though it wasn't easy at all.
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Here is my submission Post/Video. Enjoy hahahaha
https://steemit.com/veterans/@veteranforcrypto/military-veterans-of-steemit-pushup-challenge-10-minutes-of-cherry-pickers-alternate-event
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To bad non vets can't participate.
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That would be fun to do in the future if we had more funding.
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What kind of funding does a contest like this ussually require?
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It depends on participation. We usually give away 5-10 SBD in our monthly contests. The funds are generated by posting on our community account @shadow3scalpel and sometimes we receive donations from within the community.
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I agree with @doomsdaychassis, I would love to participate as a non vet, not even for the money. Just participating in a challenge as such would be fun and a physical workout.
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It would be awesome if you guys want to participate! I'll still upvote your posts.
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I will upvote everyone that participates. My vote is not worth much (I ain't been at 100% SP upvote in a coon's age), but .03 SBD is .03 SBD!
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I will give it a try.
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How much does a 35 year old fat body need to do? lol
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You're in the same age group as me so it's 36. Remember to keep your back flat and arms must bend til parallel with the ground.
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You’re fat?! Forget I asked....forget I asked...
I’ll upvote you too if I see you doing push-up on my feed. Not because you’re a non-vet, but because you’re a COMedian. ;)
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yeah that is what i was saying.
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That's not to bad at all.
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If you guys have a lot of smaller or newer accounts you may look into sending a couple SBD to @dustsweeper so that all the votes under 3 cents get paid out. I was surprised by how much I was loosing each week. It might pay for the contest on its own. @davemccoy and another witness put it togeather when we found out "dust " votes under 3 cents don't pay out. Dave also is part of @newbiresteemday. Just a thought. Usually for every 1 sbd I send in to dustsweeper I get about 2 sbd back in votes.
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Using the #veterans tag would have been heresy for me so I did my best with the rest. I hope I did well, please let me know how many of my push ups were disqualified.
https://steemit.com/socalsteemit/@csusbgeochem1/civilian-military-veterans-of-steemit-pushup-challenge
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Cool challenge, thanks for doing it, this will be interesting for sure. :-)
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Ok, brother! I will work on this. It will be cherry pickers from me though.
Message to all vets!!!
Let's show some support to the community and get involved. Hooah!
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What is a cherry picker.?
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oh, ok. I am from down south. they call those cotton pickers. I guess I should have just googled it. It is like saying soda or pop.
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I guess Army cherry pickers are different, but this exercise demo above is what we called cherry pickers in the Suck (Corps). By the way, I lived in the south for a long time (stationed at Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, NC for many years). Also lived in Tennessee, South Carolina, Virginia, and Florida most of my adult life. Tomorrow I will be heading to North Carolina to attend my grand-niece's high school graduation in Lenior, North Carolina.
On top of that, I was born and raised until the age of 17
in South Jersey. Guess I am a bit of a southern boy.
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hey sorry this is the correct version of cherry pickers I had in mind -
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My arms hurt already but I may give this one a shot! Seems like an interesting challenge. I've been out 6 years haha.
Ivy
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5 years out here :)
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You look like you're in much better shape than I am haha. But I may try this one out. We shall see
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I left the Corps 27 years ago and the Army Reserve 18 years ago. Joined the service 39 years ago (1979). So even though I am worn out, I am all in for this.
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This is just what I need right now. I’m not a veteran, but a black belt martial artist.
I’m going to participate in the challenge in an unofficial and personal way, so not entering.
What’s the standard minimum and maximum for a 44 year old male?
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The minimum would be 30 and a max score would be 66.
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Thanks so much mate.
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Awesome @nathankaye. Let's see how many you get. I will try and keep up.
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I served in both the Marine Corps and the Army Reserve. Since I am fat and old (Just turned 57 Sunday) I will opt for the push-ups (in the Corps we did a 3-mile run, pull-ups, and situps).
Going to check the standards now for the Army.
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So according to the standards for my age (57), my minimum amount of push-ups to pass is five (5) and to receive a perfect 100% score I would need to do fifty-three (53) push-ups. Well, I will give it a go.
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A 56 year old male would need to do 20 pushups to receive a minimum score of 60 points. Max would be 56 pushups. The link to the chart is above in the post.
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I stand corrected. Looking out the wrong eye again.
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Finally got off my ass to do a post... took me three takes (pewwwh) :-)
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I'll have to give this a go haha. Been out just over a year, but haven't been working out nearly enough lately... Let's see if I still have 39 in me 🤣
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When i get home i am going to do this. I need to warm up the joints for a few days first.
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This post has received a 8.27 % upvote from @boomerang.
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So it is day 7. what is the next challenge?
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The contest actually goes for one month, but the next challenge will probably be sit-ups .
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1...1...1...1...1...BREAK THE PLANE! 1...1...1...1...1...You are a no go at this station. Return to the end of the line to attempt the event again.
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I'm already in a workout cycle for the workout plan I have set for myself today and tomorrow, but I'll take the challenge and post a video for it. :) I'll be lucky if I can still do 39 in one go.
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Well after looking at the video my form sucked and i need to work towards my new goal of 100. Thanks for letting me play along.
https://steemit.com/challenge/@doomsdaychassis/military-vet-push-up-challenge-i-am-not-a-vet
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Im in!
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I might embarrass myself. lol
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