Part of training regime on ship has youngsters boxing

Usage examples of press-ups.

A `warmup' run of about four kilometres in our boots, with badly blistered and cut feet from the previous marches, half-killed us and and then a gruelling routine of press-ups and sit-ups finished us off.

We went out for a run with him one day, stopping to do press-ups and sit-ups.

When a rare outburst of enthusiasm prompted him to practise press-ups, his arms collapsed and he lay ignominiously on the floor after two attempts, convinced that he was having a heart attack.