). Unfortunately, in our social media-dominated world, such “challenges” focus more on clicks that credibility. They’re an excuse for the poster (poser?) to show off, but rarely provide the reader with any inherent value for their lives.Begin by establishing your current baseline on the following 4 components (if any related health concerns, consult your physician) —
- Total Push-ups
- Total Pull-ups
- Total time for walking/jogging/running a 5K
- Total Time Holding a Plank Position (max 5 min)
Once you have your initial results for each of the four, what’s next? Simple:
- Add your total push-ups and pull-ups together [A]
- Subtract your total plank time from your total 5K time [B]
- Divide A by B for your initial benchmark from which you can progress
Example: 8 push-ups + 1 pullup = 9… Then 30-minute 5K time – 30 second plank = 29.5.
Divide 9/29.5 = 0.3. That’s your personal benchmark you can use to check progress next month/mid-year or as your annual fitness check-in to see if you’re sustaining or improving your fitness over time! Finally – a fitness challenge that isn’t about competing with others or doing strange things but instead setting us on a course to BetterThanYesterday!! If you’d like to learn more about the why (these are so important) and how we developed this challenge, additional details are available in this article.
