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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.
However, those Calories you burn, unless you're able to do a weighted push up of 3 times your body weight (based on 60% of your body weight used in a push up and the fact that your will use anaerobic metabolism for activities greater than 20% of your 1RM), will come from anaerobic metabolism, making the energy acquired at least 16 times less efficient than normal calories.