Association between 90o push-up and cardiorespiratory fitness: Cross-sectional evidence of push-up as a tractable tool for physical fitness surveillance in youth

Despite being associated with health outcomes like abdominal adiposity, depression, anxiety, and cardiovascular disease risk among youth, largely, clinicians still do not adopt physical fitness testing. A clarion call for increased surveillance was previously issued, in order to address the US population-level lack of knowledge regarding pervasive inactivity among children.