Go slow, brace your core and don’t let your hips sag: how to start push-ups

‘The most underrated movement in fitness’ is a good way to assess general fitness. Experts share how you can get going

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f you want to show off how fit you are, you drop and do push-ups. That’s what happens on TV, anyway. In Top Gun: Maverick, buff fighter pilots do hundreds of push-ups on a hot tarmac. In the late 90s, Demi Moore wowed audiences by doing one-armed push-ups in the movie GI Jane, then again on David Letterman. Once, Michelle Obama and Ellen DeGeneres competed to see who could do the most push-ups (Obama won).

Are push-ups really worth the hype? According to fitness experts, absolutely.