Pushups Around the Globe
What do you get when you put a bunch of on-the-go fitness nerds up to a pushup challenge? You get Type A's traversing the country addicted to getting their pushups in no matter where they are.
(At 15,000 feet overlooking the Zanskar Range, Ladakh, India)
Across the country, across the globe, from Sweden to Madrid to France to Boston, my fellow nerds and I have logged 20, 21, 22, 23 pushups a day, planking in hotel rooms, in airports, in offices and alongside the Tour de France. Adding one more push up a day to the previous day's total going to Day 80 and a total of some 3000+ pushups at the end of it all may seem obsessive, but there's a simple pleasure in checking off that single thing you're responsible for each day no matter where you are or what your day throws at you. And when you're traveling, there's an element of surprise in where you end up getting them done that day.
(Pangong Lake at over 14,000 feet at sunrise, northern India)
Yours truly did them in Buddhist country on my recent journey to Bhutan and northern India; in tents, in hotel rooms, alongside prayer flags, at sunrise on a mountainside spotted with garnets at 14,270 ft, at 15,700 on the last day of a 5 day trek in the Zanskar Valley and with all the good karma in my karma locker, a final 51 at the Indira Gandhi International Airport with my friend Katherine while a guard with a large, long gun/rifle thing watched from across the corridor.
(Dundunchen La, last pass of our 5 day trek at 15,000+ feet, Ladakh, India)
(At 15,000 feet overlooking the Zanskar Range, Ladakh, India)Across the country, across the globe, from Sweden to Madrid to France to Boston, my fellow nerds and I have logged 20, 21, 22, 23 pushups a day, planking in hotel rooms, in airports, in offices and alongside the Tour de France. Adding one more push up a day to the previous day's total going to Day 80 and a total of some 3000+ pushups at the end of it all may seem obsessive, but there's a simple pleasure in checking off that single thing you're responsible for each day no matter where you are or what your day throws at you. And when you're traveling, there's an element of surprise in where you end up getting them done that day.
(Pangong Lake at over 14,000 feet at sunrise, northern India)Yours truly did them in Buddhist country on my recent journey to Bhutan and northern India; in tents, in hotel rooms, alongside prayer flags, at sunrise on a mountainside spotted with garnets at 14,270 ft, at 15,700 on the last day of a 5 day trek in the Zanskar Valley and with all the good karma in my karma locker, a final 51 at the Indira Gandhi International Airport with my friend Katherine while a guard with a large, long gun/rifle thing watched from across the corridor.
(Dundunchen La, last pass of our 5 day trek at 15,000+ feet, Ladakh, India)
Comments