Well, Right before my shoulder surgery, There was this 17 year old kid that I have been training that wanted to test me and was stating that he could do more push ups than me.
We started doing them, and might I add doing them right. I made him do them the way we did them in the police academy. Mind you I was not on a time limit either.
As we started repping them out. He was struggling at about number 19. I was already on my number 22. He stopped. I continued on. I stopped at 50 just to prove my point to him.
I have always been able to do pushups rather easy. In the Police Academy I weighed the most but I also had the most pushups in my class in the 2 minute time frame. 115 was my count.
Pushups are more of an endurance exercise rather than a strength exercise.
I have not really tried to start doing any yet since my surgery but I will start doing them when I am permitted to do them.