<p>“I am past that, I weigh 170 and adding just 10 pushups is not easy for me!”</p>
<p>“I cannot do 75 pushups, at least not by the summer seminar.”</p>
<p>With the attitude indicated by your comments, you’re absolutely right - you won’t be able to do that many pushups by summer. </p>
<p>No one said that any of this would be easy. It’s not supposed to be easy. But if you are willing to throw in the towel on your ability to improve your number of pushups with more than a month left in which to train, how much do you really want to succeed? During plebe summer, if a detailer ordered you to do 100 or more pushups in the p-way, how would you react? Would you say (as in your own statements, above), “I can’t?” Or would you keep going until your arms feel like falling off, and then find it in yourself to keep going? </p>
<p>Sorry if this sounds harsh, and others may jump all over me, but I’m the parent of a plebe wannabe who has (so far) been told that she can’t make it medically at USNA (she has an LOA), even though she has an NROTC waiver, and even though she has actually completed all the hardest workouts in the “Official USNA Workout Book,” AND has had a totally independent lifeguard witness her successful completion of the USNA “40 year swim,” - in a 25 yard pool, making it twice as hard as what’s actually required at USNA. She wants USNA so badly that, even though she so far has been denied a waiver, she is now completing at least 200 pushups per day IN ADDITION TO the workout book workouts, in the hopes that she will be ready if she gets the call. So quit feeling sorry for yourself or making excuses for why you can’t, or why pushups shouldn’t be required, and start doing whatever you can to improve as much as possible in the time you have.</p>