Hey guys! It's Tyen.
So I've been seeing a lot of TikTok fitness challenges lately and I thought it'd be fun
for me to try some of them out.
So as I was scrolling through TikTok for this video, I saw a couple of fitness challenges
that looked really difficult.
Like you almost need to be a gymnast to complete some of them.
And some of them looked pretty simple but I was thinking, y'know, they might actually
be really difficult to do in practice.
So I thought I'd just try them all out today, see how it goes.
So without further ado, lets get into it.
There's this one TikTok-er, her name is @melissacapp, and she has a lot of these flexibility and
mobility challenges and they are pretty viral.
She makes it look really easy but I know that it's actually quite difficult but let me see
if I can do some of them.
So guys, I have not attempted these videos at all so I'm really going in cold and trying them out.
Right.
Okay, so there's like a lunge that she does.
She holds one of her feet and then she does like a, almost like a pistol squat but only
her foot is not forward.
She's like holding onto the back.
She makes it look really effortless, and easy, and simple, but I just know.
I just know that there's a lot more to these moves than it seems on TikTok.
So I'm gonna try it out and see how I fair.
Who knows I might surprise myself or I might look very silly, but anyway.
Okay, I'm gonna try it out.
Oh my gosh.
Guys this is not easy at all.
I think it requires a lot of ankle mobility and ankle flexibility which I obviously don't really have.
Let me try my other leg.
I am determined.
I am determined!
I think I gotta find my centre of gravity and just stand and go all the way up.
One last try.
Oh my gosh!
I did it!
I totally cheated, I fell at the end but that was challenging.
I think it's possible but with a lot of practice.
Next up on my challenge, Melissa has this pistol squat.
Jump up into a pistol squat.
Lets see how I go.
Down,
and she jumps up.
I don't know if you guys are hearing my cracks but my knees are cracking.
3, 2, 1, and up.
And then she goes into a pistol squat.
I don't have the same kind of ankle flexibility that she has and I think you just gotta be really like agile.
Nevermind.
Next up, the last Melissa challenge.
You can't go on your sides or your back, try getting up.
Wow.
I think that requires like a lot of hip mobility.
Okay, hands behind like that.
Hips forward.
Oh my god.
Ouch.
I can't make it past my hip line!
You know what?
This is not happening.
This is super, super, super not happening.
I am not one to give up but I gotta say that this is a challenge that I am not equipped
to do at the moment.
So yeah, I pretty much failed all these challenges.
So I thought I might be able to do the first or the last one successfully but gosh was
I wrong because it requires a lot of ankle and hip flexibility which I for one do not
have at this moment.
And was it difficult?
Definitely a challenge.
I don't think it's really like the muscles you need to develop in order to do these workouts.
I feel like you could be very strong or you can be pretty agile but when you don't have
that level of flexibility in your ankles or your hips, or even your arms, I think that
this workout might be a bit more challenging for you to do.
And also I think it's a development of your slow-twitch and fast-twitch muscles.
When we're doing a lot of these compound movements that I like to do, usually we're doing a lot
of big squats, deadlifts, and that works a lot of your bigger muscles.
But a lot of these workouts also do require you to have those smaller, fast-twitch muscles
in your body, and that really makes you do the jumps.
It helps you with the explosive movements.
That is something that I personally need to work on if I want to do these challenges in the future.
I am about to try the TikTok push-up challenge.
Wow.
And you see, he's pushing from his forearms, not from his palms like you would in a traditional push-up.
I think what makes this video even more impressive is the fact that he's doing it in time, and
he's just so beefy and muscular-looking and strong.
I don't know, it might be simpler than it seems here but who knows.
Let me just try it out for myself.
Not as bad as I thought it would be.
Honestly, this looks a lot more impressive because he has developed shoulders and triceps
and huge biceps.
For this exercise, it definitely looked more difficult than it was.
But I'm pretty impressed because I was able to do that push with the forearm, which I
didn't think I was able to do.
Definitely try this one out guys, I think it's manageable.
But do try it with a yoga mat because if not, it's quite a lot of pressure on your wrist.
These TikTok challenges are more fun than I thought they would be.
So I am about to try out the plank jack challenge.
And it's @blogilates doing it, and it's quite popular.
Okay, that looks intense.
My initial impression of this is that it looks like it requires a lot of coordination.
That is something that is not personally my strong suit.
It's basically much up and down planks with some plank jacks.
So I'm okay with plank jacks, I'm okay with up and downs but put it together with music
and rhythm, we'll see how I fair.
What is this!
Okay, I got it now.
I guess you gotta do like plank jacks throughout the entire workout, and then just add your
up and downs.
Once you've got the hang of doing the plank jacks, then your upper body just kind of follows.
I think overall this is a really fun one.
I think it looks difficult but once you've kinda get you coordination right, you get
into the rhythm of it, then it should go pretty easy for you.
It's definitely a good workout.
You'll feel it in your core, your upper body, you'll be sweating, it's just like good cardio sweat.
And I definitely recommend that you guys give this one a go.
I am about to attempt the wall squat challenge on TikTok.
I've seen quite a few of these challenges and there's this one guy who's able to do
like 9 minutes of wall squats which is insane.
I'm gonna watch his video just to get me a bit hyped and a bit competitive.
They're just kinda like chatting.
She's like on her phone texting.
Oh gosh, he's made it through.
Okay, so just watching it I think I can personally last for a bit more than 3 minutes maybe?
Shoot for the stars, maybe 3 minutes, maybe 4 minutes?
I have done like 2 minutes wall squats before with my clients actually.
It's always more fun when you have more people doing it but lets just try and see how it goes.
Oh gosh guys, I'm feeling it now.
Ugh, it's burning!
I am determined to keep pushing guys.
I can't even see the time!
Oh gosh!
I should not have seen the time guys.
Okay, video's over.
I need to change video before I get like distracted by the pain!
I shouldn't have clicked on this... I clicked on a video about working out.
Okay, how about cute animals.
Cute animals can distract me.
Let me listen to the news.
Okay, maybe the news might distract me.
Okay, I'm listening about coronavirus.
Oh I feel it in my lower back, I feel it in my hips,
I feel it in my spine, I feel it in my ass!
Oh my god! Keep speaking, please keep speaking!
Don't lag!
Oh my god.
I think I can do 10 minutes guys.
I am committed to doing 10 minutes, don't tell me I can't!
Oh god, I'm sweating.
I'm slipping.
I'm slipping and shaking guys.
Oh my god.
Come on!
COME ON!!!
♫ This is home, truly.
Where I know I must be ♫
Oh my god!
♫ This is home, truly... ♫
Okay guys, I'm done.
If you can just see how much I am just melting right now.
I definitely beat my own target of 4 minutes.
So I'm really proud.
That was some serious workout that I just did.
And I probably will have issues sitting on my toilet bowl for the next week.
Well it worked everything.
It worked my core, my thigh, my quads are just killing me, my butt, my hamstrings.
Gosh and it just really required me to just find ways to distract myself.
And it's I guess very similar to one of those workouts whereby you're just like "Oh gosh".
You just really don't wanna get through it but you can y'know, it's just like a mental
barrier that you need to get through and find ways to distract yourself.
So the next time you're doing like burpees or heavy squats, just I don't know, sing to
yourself or listen to some music to distract yourself because it definitely helped me get through.
That was a really wild challenge.
I am so shaken and also surprised at my own personal best, and I would love for you guys
to try it out to see how you fair in the same challenge.
Okay, so that's it.
I am officially done with the TikTok challenges.
Would I do any of these challenges again?
Absolutely, especially the flexibility and mobility challenges.
I think that that made me very inspired to work on my own mobility and my flexibility
so those @melissacapp videos, I want to be able to do them at some point, so that's something
that I'm gonna be working on.
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