Additional revised push-up test norms for college students

The push-up test is commonly used to assess arm and shoulder girdle strength and endurance. Baumgartner, Oh, Chung, and Hales (2002) developed a revised push-up test for college students with a standardized test protocol. The purpose of the present study was to develop percentile norms for the revised push-up test based on the push-up scores of college students and compare these norms to those established by Baumgartner, Hales, Chung, Oh, and Wood (2004). A total of 418 male and 216 female students were tested using the revised push-up protocol. The percentile norms for the present study had a distribution of push-up scores similar to the distribution established by Baumgartner et al. (2004) for male students. The result of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test suggests that the male samples from the two studies are from the same population. Therefore, an additional percentile norm by pooling the data of the two studies was done. However, a more favorable distribution for the female participants resulted from the present study than for the females in Baumgartner et al. (2004). Moreover, the result of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test also suggests that the sample from the two studies significantly differ for females. Therefore, it is suggested that for females, the percentile norms in the present study should be used in preference to those in the Baumgartner et al. (2004) study.