Andrew Huberman· PhD
So 25 push-ups for a male is the standard. And even something like 10 is a number we're looking for, again, as minimum categories for an upper body muscular endurance.
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So 25 push-ups for a male is the standard. And even something like 10 is a number we're looking for, again, as minimum categories for an upper body muscular endurance.
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So we want to be able to-- again, for a general male, we should have no problem doing 25 plus consecutive push-ups.
So basically, you're looking at 15 is that marker, like 25 was for the male, where I want to see above 15. And if I do, we're good. Anything between five to 15 is the number of, OK. If you're sub five, we generally have some problems.
If it's sub 10 for a man, that's again, and you're like, very severe red flag problem.
Well, absolutely. So again, if they can't do-- they can do anything less than three, you're going to be strength.