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Originally Posted by IronDuke99
The trouble is that they do tend to drop the standards: Women in the British Army for example being allowed to do 'knee' pushups!
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I used to coach female athletes and from what I learned during the courses in coaching and the experience is that the rule "Women athletes achieve 90% of the strength level of men except for shoulder and arm strength where they achieve 67%."
The big question is if pushups are a good measure of combat readiness or if it is just strength training. If the latter, then knee pushups are fine although I personally never let my athletes do them if they were able to do real pushups.
I'm all for equal requirements as long as they relate to capability in combat.