Life starts after ten push-ups. Anytime, Anywhere, Anyway. This is the slogan of a new project that combines sport, fun and friendship. The player has to do ten push-ups whenever another players says: “Ten push-ups!"
The rules are simple. You agree with friends that you will be playing Ten push-ups! Each member of the group has the right to give this instruction to someone else twice a day, after which the addressed guy must immediately do ten push-ups. After finishing the task, the player must say thank you. Otherwise, they would automatically get additional ten push-ups for punishment - those should also be followed by a thank you.
“The word thanks at the end means that there is no malice or rivalry in the game. The more of your friends participate, the more you do for your health. And you will have fun," say students Jan Šubrt, Peter Ševčík and Sylva Hřebíčková from the Faculty of Sports Studies. In this non-conventional way, they want to incite people to do some physical activity and create new friendships.
"Ten push-ups won't kill anyone, but it does make your body stronger. With more repetitions, it can be a good workout as well. The game gives this simple exercise a new meaning, as it becomes a form of collective entertainment," says Šubrt.
The aim of the authors is to involve a wider group of people who may not even know each other. This should be made possible by items with logos of the game. "When someone, even a stranger, sees you on the street and recognizes an item with the Ten push-ups! logo, they can simply tell you to do ten push-up. Doing push-ups might be a non-traditional start of a new friendship,” say the students.
Students of the Faculty of Sports Studies had already made one attempt to draw attention to the fact that a healthy lifestyle also includes regular exercise: they organized the event MOB Dance. During this event, students managed to ">make people on several city squares dance, and at the same time, they commemorated the university’s 95th anniversary in a very original way.