I and my friends created the push-up challenge to do 10 continuous pushups with correct posture and form. The push-up is a very common yet intense workout as it requires tremendous upper body strength and develops muscles like the biceps, triceps, chest, and shoulder. Due to the benefits and difficulty, my friends and I decided to take n this challenge and start from the beginning developing our upper body strength
LO 1:- We initially tried to do as many pushups as we could do without any prior training to see where we stood and how well our upper body strength is, for me, it was terrible as I was only able to do 1 pushup, but this experience gave me the areas on which I needed to work on.
LO 2:- One more reason for the terrible performance was my body being slightly overweight and a hand deformity which made things even harder. I had never trained my upper body before and did not know the perfect technique for a pushup as well so we were started from the very beginning.
LO 3:- To do a pushup correctly I first watched some videos online to see how the pushup is done. Initially, all I did was try to do pushups without any technique or a plan and increase my capacity but no results were seen, so I decided to make a plan in order to reach my goal faster. There are 3 kinds of pushups, wall pushups, knee pushups, and the actual pushup with wall pushups being the easiest and actual being the hardest as most of the weight is divided towards the legs making wall pushups easier. So I decided to first aim for 50 flawless wall pushups then go to 30 knee pushups and then finally aim for 10 real pushups as I will have the strength for them as well.
LO 4:- I worked very hard for 3 straight weeks as we decided to show the results. So there was very less time to get to the goal so I completed the first stage of the plan in under a week and did 50 wall pushups. I started doing the knee pushups parallel with the wall pushups and I completed the 30 knee pushups within the next 4-5 days I could see results as well as I could see shoulder and chest muscles building up. After 17 days into the challenge, I could do 8 actual pushups with the correct posture and pushed through to 10 in the last 4 days to achieve my goal
LO 5:- The plan was created by my group of friends and we decided to work on it collaboratively which has definitely helped a lot as we constantly tried to motivate each other when one of us felt behind and tracked each other’s progress and gave regular feedback to each other if the form was wrong. It also got very competitive in a positive way as the one to achieve their goal the fastest was given a price giving us more motivation and intent to work towards our goal.
