Erm, as much as we'd all love the fitness test to be made even easier than it already is I'm afraid you have to do proper push-ups. They have altered the format ever so slightly, but your still required to be on your toes.
If your struggling just practice daily, you'd be surprised at how quick you can build the repetitions up. There are plenty on apps on both apple and android to help.
Good luck.
As far as I remember, boys have to do full push-ups whilst girls get to do it on their knees. (ooh err)
As far as I remember, boys have to do full push-ups whilst girls get to do it on their knees. (ooh err)
Practice daily at press ups but also get some gym work in. The wiki page details the muscles you need to work on. Personally, I would give the bench press a go as you can replicate the press up and get someone to spot for you so you can adjust the weight. Usually the bar alone weights 20kg so just start with that and see how many reps you can do. If it is tons, then up the weight until you get a situation where you do a 3 sets of 8, with the 8th lift being a struggle. When you find the 8th lift easy, up the weight then drop the reps to 3 x 6, then 3 x 7, and again 3 x 8. Repeat until you are satisfied.
Used to be the case that females did them at a 45' incline position against a bar of some sort. Well it was when I joined up. 1 female couldn't even do that (Nickname: Warchild) but then she was quite a tragic case.