Push-Up Challenge
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What is this?
This is a challenge exercise for the upper body. Your trainer challenges you to a how-long-can-you-keep-going competition.
Benefits
Push-Up Challenge:
- Tones the pectorals.
- Tones the shoulders.
- Tones the arms, specifically the triceps.
Equipment required
This exercise requires:
- The Wii Balance Board
A mat or soft surface is recommended.
MET
Push-Up Challenge has a MET of 3.5, meaning that it is a moderate intensity activity.
How to do it
This exercise is simple push-ups. Like all the challenge exercises, Push-Up Challenge is initially locked. You unlock it by playing the longer version of Push-Up and Side Plank at least once.
- Position yourself on all fours with your hands on the Wii Balance Board.
- Extend your legs behind you with bent toes, so that only the underside of your toes are touching the floor.
- Lower your body to just above the Wii Balance Board. This is a normal push-up, and the trainer does advise you to put your knees down if you find it difficult to do with straight legs.
- Keeping your back straight, straighten your arms so that you raise your body.
- Make sure to keep time with your instructor so that the bar on the screen turns yellow.
- Repeat this exercise for as many times possible or until the trainer gives up, whichever comes first.
Scoring
Your score is simply the number of push-ups you did well enough to score. Unlike Plank Challenge, it is possible to score less than ten points for a single unit.
Problems
- Keep your back straight and more or less in line with your legs, which keeps your weight from drifting backwards.
- If you find it difficult to do push-ups with straight legs, it is OK to put your knees down on the ground, but you must straighten your legs to do the sideways part of the exercise.
- You may find these push-ups harder than you would if you did them without the Wii, as the size of the balance board means that your hands will be closer together than the "natural" distance. The only solution to this is to develop your muscles.
Silliness
The challenge exercises are the place to see the trainers exhibiting some human weakness. They will hang their heads when they "lose", and they will crow over defeating you. And they will sound tired, in a way that they never do in the non-challenge exercises.
