Here’s another metric to gauge your cardiac health: push-ups. Yes, push-ups. A new study by researchers at Harvard’s School of Public Health finds that active middle-aged men who can do at least 40 push-ups have a significantly lower risk of unfortunate cardiac disease outcomes than do men who can do fewer than 10 push-ups.
The researchers analyzed health data from more than 1,000 active male firefighters whose mean age was 39.6 and whose mean body mass index (BMI) was 28.7. Over the 10-year study period, the researchers calculated that men able to do more than 40 push-ups had a 96 percent reduced risk of cardio-vascular disease related events, compared with those who were able to do fewer than 10 push-ups. In fact, push-up capacity was more strongly associated with lower incidence of cardiovascular disease than was aerobic capacity as measured on treadmill exercise test.
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