An Enduring Measure of Fitness: The Simple Push-Up

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An Enduring Measure of Fitness: The Simple Push-Up

Stuart Bradford

By TARA PARKER-POPE
Published: March 11, 2008
As a symbol of health and wellness, nothing surpasses the simple push-up.


Practically everyone remembers the actor Jack Palance performing age-defying push-ups during his Oscar acceptance speech. More recently, Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor whose last lecture became an Internet sensation, did push-ups to prove his fitness despite having pancreatic cancer.

“It takes strength to do them, and it takes endurance to do a lot of them,â€