I tried to do a press-up – and had an existential crisis | Adrian Chiles

There’s nothing to make you feel old like finding out that something you used to do all the time is now completely beyond you I decided to do some press-ups. They’re good for you, apparently. A calisthenic classic. This much I picked up in a doomscrolling session. Some algorithm somewhere must have decided I’d be open to the idea and, not for the first time, the algorithm was right. I used to do lots of press-ups, perhaps 20 or 30, most days. I can recall how this started. It was 1985 and I w...

By Adrian Chiles