Muscular Endurance

You can measure your muscular endurance by using a one minute press-up test and a one minute sit-up test. To do this, simply record the number of press-ups you can do in one minute, then record the number of sit-ups you can do in one minute. This testing should be carried out periodically at regular intervals to test on progress within your fitness regime. As with all fitness testing, it is important that you repeat the tests under similar circumstances, for example at the same time of day, and following the same level of background activity.

Advantages and Disadvantages of the Muscular Endurance Test

We recommend you do two different tests for this because alone, each exercise is only working on one specific area of the body. Individually these tests will only give you muscular endurance results for a specific area, but together they will give you a better overview of your fitness level. The tables below give an indication of the results you might expect for these tests. Although the results are based on tests on men, they will also give a reasonable indication of the performance women might expect to achieve. They are only guidelines, and the main thing is that you establish your baseline fitness level, and then improve it.

One Minute Sit Up Test (Men)