The Svenssen Method (also called the Svenssen Assessment) is a unique method for assessing muscular endurance. The four events in the Svenssen Assessment are pushups, pullups, squats, and the isometric plank (all bodyweight). The desire for a new method of testing muscular endurance arose from the relative ineffectiveness of current tests, such as the military pushups, situps/crunch, and pullup tests. While these tests do, in fact, test muscular endurance, the parameters of the tests were thought to be inadequate. In addition to this, because each test is traditionally adminstered separately, it is possible for one to train specifically for one test (pushups) and neglect everything else, and thus skew the results.