It's got the full progression from wall push-ups to floor ones.
it's another thing that is making me even more disgruntled with my PE teachers in retrospect, because back then I just failed at doing push-ups, but none of the teachers offered systematic alternatives, and I just tended to sit out the stuff I couldn't manage. And none of the condition or strength building stuff was done systematically or with decent explanations anyway. It was all just done in a quick prelude to other sports stuff, like various team sports or track and field.
Yesssss. Which is why I can tend to be sort of evangelical about this stuff, because my school PE teachers basically got me avoiding all physical activities with fear and loathing for twenty years.
Nobody ever told me this stuff was learnable, or that there were modified versions of the things I couldn't do which would let me get stronger until I could do them.
I just got ordered to try harder. And I've got the motor co-ordination problems that often come with Asperger's, so I failed at everything, and just learned that it was horrible and impossible and humiliating and I'd fail and get hurt if I tried.
And now I'm 40, and I climb things, and I am the strongest and most flexible and most physically-skilled I have ever been in my life.
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Highly commended to your attention:
http://www.stumptuous.com/mistressing-the-pushup
It's got the full progression from wall push-ups to floor ones.
it's another thing that is making me even more disgruntled with my PE teachers in retrospect, because back then I just failed at doing push-ups, but none of the teachers offered systematic alternatives, and I just tended to sit out the stuff I couldn't manage. And none of the condition or strength building stuff was done systematically or with decent explanations anyway. It was all just done in a quick prelude to other sports stuff, like various team sports or track and field.
Yesssss. Which is why I can tend to be sort of evangelical about this stuff, because my school PE teachers basically got me avoiding all physical activities with fear and loathing for twenty years.
Nobody ever told me this stuff was learnable, or that there were modified versions of the things I couldn't do which would let me get stronger until I could do them.
I just got ordered to try harder. And I've got the motor co-ordination problems that often come with Asperger's, so I failed at everything, and just learned that it was horrible and impossible and humiliating and I'd fail and get hurt if I tried.
And now I'm 40, and I climb things, and I am the strongest and most flexible and most physically-skilled I have ever been in my life.