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Calories Per Pushup. You burn between 1/2 and 1 calorie per pushup, depending on your weight and how vigorously you're exercising. This is consistent for time periods of 10 minutes or one minute.
Photo Credit Jupiterimages/Creatas/Getty Images. Push-ups exercise your upper body muscles, including your deltoids, triceps and pectorals. Individually, push-ups don't burn many calories, but they can add a few dozen to your total calories burned when you do them in multiple sets throughout a workout. You may balance on either your toes or knees when doing a push-up, with your palms placed slightly more than shoulder-width apart.