Fitness challenge

[gaunt birch]

Guys, what do you think of these kind of challenges?
Doing 1 handstand pushup for every 1k subs daily and also showing my failures.
Some people are doing regular pushups and they are getting views
The reason I like it is because I can do it in different places and also I can do more pushups later when I get more subs which makes me satisfied.
The main goal here is to see if it works for me so I'm thinking of doing this challenge at least for a month. What do you think? any thoughts?

[upper junco]

I could see this as a shorts series

[royal leaf]

I agree with Phil that could work as a Shorts series but if you want to make it as a long-form video you need to figure out what will be the length of the video and how you gonne stracture it as the premise of your video is gonna be only the "Doing 1 handstand pushup for every 1k subs daily." It's gonna be tricky.

[paper umbra]

How many subs do you have? 🙂

[upper junco]

He has 500 subscribers

I think

[paper umbra]

Does that mean that in the first video he will do half of a handstand pushup? 😊

[upper junco]

No I think it's one of those series where they are shorts and the goal is just to get as many followers as possible, they don't really care about personality but subscribe so people walk X distance or do X amount of pushups

[paper umbra]

I understand now @upper junco
Fitness challenges tend to do well on YT, especially shorts. I wonder if @gaunt birch could engage his viewers in the Community section by doing polls, etc. Thus, he can get ideas of new challenges directly from his viewers.

[gaunt birch]

1k was just an example
I started to do 1 handstand pushup for every 100 subs

[gaunt birch]

That's right

[gaunt birch]

Good idea, thanks

[plucky rapids]

so this is the guy that say for every like he’ll do a push up lol. Nah on serious though i think this is a cool idea for sure

Although are handstands PERCEIVED as equally physically intense as pushups? Just some food for thought…

[upper junco]

I don’t think they’re sound as impressive but it’s more “original” by a bit

[gaunt birch]

It appears to me that none of you works out 🤣
I'm not doing handstand
I'm not doing pushups
I'm doing handstand pushup
And of course it's impressive
One out of 1000000 can do it
Make a video and show me if you can. haha
This is my video:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t497Jj7QvZY

[plucky rapids]

Ohhhhh mad respect g my bad

i just read it as “handstand” lmao

my brain autocorrected

no this IS for sure impressive 😂

[gaunt birch]

Haha thank you
No worries, it was funny though

[upper junco]

``I'm doing handstand pushup - I did not read that sorry

[gaunt birch]

It's ok
Thank you for your feedback

[paper umbra]

When will you start the challenge @gaunt birch?

[gaunt birch]

Well, right now I can do only one without the help of the wall
So I decided to do the wall-assisted form for every 100 subs until I hit 1000 subs
Then I start 1 handstand pushup for every 1 k
Here is the day 14:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EUXDWbAZhOU

And the reason I stopped is because I hurt myself while doing some of these moves:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3D4t8b44mDM

Lol

I'll be fine in a few days and I'll start over

[paper umbra]

Very impressive. Have you ever tried to show the video at normal speed followed by slow motion of the same move (for quick moves)? And normal speed followed by the same move, but sped up (for slower moves)?

[paper umbra]

That is always a problem with fitness challenges. The likelihood of getting hurt is quite high. I hope you'll recover quickly!

[gaunt birch]

I did it a few times and it went well at the time
Maybe I'll make similar videos again

[paper umbra]

I meant you slow down the video when editing.

[gaunt birch]

Thank you
My body is full of scars from injuries in sports. I'm used to it

[gaunt birch]

Yes mean like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cFU8OIlPK9Q

[paper umbra]

Exactly! I am not your target audience (although it's impressive to watch), but what is your audience saying about these type of videos?

[gaunt birch]

Well, as you may know, I don't have a large audience for now but from what I've understood, the combination of strength and humor is what my audience likes the most for example this is my top-viewed video:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e8dOZzkCS60

The second most viewed videos are the ones that I do so many kicking moves

Like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Vvx9KYOKbQ4

[paper umbra]

The 2 videos above are the same.

[gaunt birch]

So the result goes like this:
1- Combination of strength and humor
2- Kicking videos

[gaunt birch]

Oh sorry my bad
It's been corrected

[gaunt birch]

The first 17 most viewed videos are in one of those two categories
Then the 18th most viewed is this:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iatnaVC17r8

Which has a similarity to my kicking videos

It has steps in it
Just like the kicks that were performed in a few steps

It makes the viewers to be excited to watch to the end and the algorithm shows it to a larger audience