History Main / PhysicalFitnessPunishment

** For the Air Force, nicknames including "Motivational PT", "Pushing Texas" (given that the Air Force does all of it's basic training at a base in Texas), and "Making the Dayroom Walls Sweat" (the Dayroom is a small briefing room in the dormitories, get sixty trainees in there doing pushups with the door closed, and the humidity level in the room will rise significantly...)

* Taken UpToEleven in the movie ''Film/BiloxiBlues''; a soldier says something vaguely impertinent in ranks, so the DrillSergeantNasty played by ChristopherWalken has the ''entire platoon'' do ''two hundred'' pushups. To make matters worse, the offending cadet [[PottyEmergency has to pee]] the entire time.

->''[[StockPhrases Drop and give me twenty!]]''

* [[Creator/RLeeErmey Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]] provides a rather twisted take on this in ''Film/FullMetalJacket''. When Private Pyle is caught stealing a jelly doughnut, Hartman doesn't punish Pyle. Instead, Hartman punishes everyone except Pyle in order to [[IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure failing to keep him in line]], by making them all do push-ups while Pyle eats the doughnut.

* To quote Creator/RLeeErmey from ''Film/FullMetalJacket'', "Who the fuck said that? Who the fuck said that?!... I will PT you until you [[ClusterFBomb fucking]] die!"

* A self-inflicted version of this is how [[BigOlEyebrows 'Rock Lee']] and [[BigOlEyebrows 'Migh']] [[LargeHam 'Guy']] from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' train. "If I can't do 30 laps while running, I'll do 40 laps while doing handstands. If I can't do that I'll do 300 jumps with the rope. If I can't do that, I'll kick the training dummy 1000 times." And so on. This is the source of their [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower extreme physical prowess which easily puts them among the most dangerous taijutsu users in the world, putting them on par with many ninja who rely on ninjutsu to get the job done.]]

* In the DirectToVideo sequel, ''Film/StarshipTroopers2HeroOfTheFederation'', Captain Dax deflects a female trooper's sexual advances (her excuse being that she had "excess energy" she needed to burn off) by having her do a hundred pushups.

* Splinter has Michelangelo do backflips as a punishment in ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles II: Secret of the Ooze'' - and then he has to do even more of them when he's discovered to be faking them.

* A self-inflicted version of this is how [[BigOlEyebrows 'Rock Lee']] and [[BigOlEyebrows 'Migh']] [[LargeHam 'Guy']] from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' train. "If I can't do 30 laps while running, I'll do 40 laps while doing handstands. If I can't do that I'll do 300 jumps with the rope. If I can't do that, I'll kick the training dummy 1000 times." And so on. This is the source of their [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower extreme physical prowess which easily puts them among the most dangerous taijutsu users in the world.]]

* A self-inflicted version of this is how [[BigOlEyebrows 'Rock Lee']] and [[BigOlEyebrows 'Migh']] [[LargeHam 'Guy']] from ''Manga/Naruto'' train. "If I can't do 30 laps while running, I'll do 40 laps while doing handstands. If I can't do that I'll do 300 jumps with the rope. If I can't do that, I'll kick the training dummy 1000 times." And so on. This is the source of their [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower 'Charles Atlas Superpowers']].

* In ''{{Medabots}}'', Coach Mountain loved forcing any kids he caught misbehaving by making them run laps to the point of exhaustion.
* GunslingerGirl Triela opens her hand-to-hand training by dumping a GIS commando on his head in about 3 seconds (Cyborg or no, she's half his size, if not height). The Major isn't impressed with either of them. The soldier is told to go get his gear and not to come back til he's done ten klicks. Then he kicks Triela's butt.

* ''OldMansWar'': On the platoon's first day in training, the drill sergeant makes a point of finding a reason to give each and every person a twenty-kilometer run, with the threat of everyone having to do it again if one person takes longer than an hour. This is partly so everyone knows where they stand with him, and partly to make the point that, with their new technological enhancements, they all ''can'' run twenty kilometers in an hour, among other feats.

* ''SpaceAboveAndBeyond'': Part of [[DrillSergeantNasty Sergeant Major Bougus]]'s EstablishingCharacterMoment in the pilot is to make several of the main characters drop and start giving him pushups. One for giving him lip, and another for smirking at the first one. He is kind enough to keep count for them.

* Done on ''TheBillCosbyShow'' where Cosby played a physical education teacher. In one episode, he had the entire team running laps, with one student running them backwards.

* In ''{{Doug}}'', the band teacher has his students drop and give him twenty push-ups whenever they played a wrong note on their instruments.

* In ''[[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians 101 Dalmatians: The Series]]'', this is a frequent punishment given by Lt. Pug to the puppies.

** A self-inflicted version of this is how [[BigOlEyebrows 'Rock Lee']] and [[BigOlEyebrows 'Migh']] [[LargeHam 'Guy']] from ''Manga/Naruto'' train. "If I can't do 30 laps while running, I'll do 40 laps while doing handstands. If I can't do that I'll do 300 jumps with the rope. If I can't do that, I'll kick the training dummy 1000 times." And so on. This is the source of their [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower 'Charles Atlas Superpowers']].

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* ''AnimalHouse'': The ROTC commander [[TheNeidermeyer Douglas Neidermeyer]] once gives the cadets the command "Now drop and give me twenty!" because they're "worthless and weak".
* Taken UpToEleven in the movie ''BiloxiBlues''; a soldier says something vaguely impertinent in ranks, so the DrillSergeantNasty played by ChristopherWalken has the ''entire platoon'' do ''two hundred'' pushups. To make matters worse, the offending cadet [[PottyEmergency has to pee]] the entire time.
* ''InTheArmyNow'': The first time one of the buddies is ordered to give 20, he thinks "twenty" means dollars, not push-ups.
** By the time they get through basic training after doing [[RunningGag so many pushups]] Pauly Shore's character can do hundreds of them without feeling tired at all.
* In ''MeetTheRobinsons'', the gym teacher appoints himself judge of the science fair because it's in his gym. When he's disappointed by one of the projects, he has the kid who made it run laps.
* In ''ThePacifier'', Zoey's boyfriend tries to sneak in through a window, setting off the alarm. Lt. Shane, who's guarding/babysitting the kids while their mom's away, catches the teen and tells him to give him twenty. He takes out his wallet before Shane clarifies that he meant ''pushups'', not dollars.
* ''RememberTheTitans'': During his [[TrainingFromHell summer football training camp]], Coach Boone only had one punishment for any kind of failure: [[RunningGag Running a mile.]]

* There was a gym teacher like this in ''WeirdScience''. At the end of the movie, [[MsFanservice Lisa]] shows up in the role and tells all the boys to "''drop'' and give me twenty." The all-male gym class facepalms collectively and falls over backwards.
* To quote RLeeErmey from FullMetalJacket, "Who the fuck said that? Who the fuck said that?!... I will PT you until you [[ClusterFBomb fucking]] die!"

* ''{{CHERUB}}'' agents tend to get a lot of these.

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* Happens in ''{{Film/Starship Troopers}}''.

** In the DirectToVideo sequel, ''Hero Of The Federation'', Captain Dax deflects a female trooper's sexual advances (her excuse being that she had "excess energy" she needed to burn off) by having her do a hundred pushups.

* The original novel of Starship Troopers features the scene referenced above, with slightly different dialog.

* In the American high school JROTC or other military-related youth programs, this is also used.

* In ''{{Stripes}}'': Sergeant Hulka doesn't appreciate Winger talking back to him after ordering the trainees to go on a five mile run.
-->'''John Winger:''' ''I know that I'm speaking for the entire platoon when I say this run should be postponed until this platoon is better rested.''
-->'''Sergeant Hulka:''' ''Well, I'll tell you what, soldier. Let's make it ten miles.''

->''[[StockPhrases Drop down and give me twenty!]]''

->''[[StockPhrases Drop down and give me twenty, maggot!]]''

->''[[StockPhrases Drop and give me twenty!]]''