Naval Academy Adds Cadence Push-Ups, Planks to Fitness Test

How does maxing planks compare to crunches? Easier, harder, or just different?
 
IMO planks will be harder because they wear out your arms which will make push ups a lot worse.
 
My DS and I would do planks during the commercials, while watching TV. We did that his entire senior year of High School.
They really improved my core strength, but I did start coming up with reasons not to watch TV. Hoo boy.
 
This was probably a good idea since form was really inconsistent across the Brigade. Scoring will likely need to be further adjusted however. Some of the most athletic people I know who regularly earned As in the old PRT are now getting, Bs while folks who reliably scored Bs are now just barely scraping by in some cases.
 
I have been to a few PRTs to watch, and what passed for pushups in the past would be laughable at TBS.

Okay, begin!

Uh, zero.

Still zero.

Wow! zero.

One.

One.

One.

Still one.
 
The plank is just as doable as maxing sit ups. Its mostly mental and not terrible if you have a conversation with people around you. As a plebe, I can't comment on cadence vs old pushups.
 
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