Be able to do a pushup

“As I cranked out the first few pushups I realized I didn’t care about fair or unfair, hard or easy. [...] Twenty seven – finish strong. Twenty eight – I can! Twenty nine – I will! Thirty – I did! With a quick contraction of my abdominal muscles I gathered my legs under myself and jumped up. Landing neatly on my feet, I snapped to attention and bowed as if I’d just finished a kata (form). No freaking way was I going to show any more weakness than I already had during the last three reps. I stood triumphant.”

“I recently started my fitness journey and within the first week I was ready to quit [...] It was so difficult to move around the first few weeks [...] I sometimes cried while working out [...] The pain was excruciating, getting out of bed was so difficult But after some time my workouts became easier”