Fitness influencer says one simple habit can help anyone get back in shape

Fitness influencer and trainer Mark Langowski, known connected societal media arsenic @bodybymark, hosted a pushup and plank contention successful New York City this week, wherever helium urged the nationalist to get up and get moving.

On his level of astir 2 cardinal Instagram followers, Langowski asks acceptable radical to stock their workout routines. He was capable to conscionable much in-shape New Yorkers astatine his Washington Square Park meet-up, successful concern with Oikos yogurt connected May 12.

A antheral and a pistillate victor who achieved the astir pushups oregon held a plank the longest were talented $500 each.

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Besides the currency prize, the inspiration was to get much radical moving, Langowski shared during an interrogation with Fox News Digital.

Fitness influencer and trainer Mark Langowski, known connected societal media arsenic @bodybymark, hosted a pushup and plank contention successful New York City this week, wherever helium urged the nationalist to get up and get moving. (Kelly McGreal/Fox News Digital)

"[It’s] a mode to promote spot and wide fittingness successful New York City and each astir the country," helium said.

"We got unneurotic and we're doing a plank competition, pushup competition. We had a feline conscionable bash 111 pushups. We're conscionable getting radical moving."

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Langowski said the attributes of a large rival see strength, humility and confidence.

"The radical who ... did the most, they didn't accidental they were going to bash the most," helium said. "And determination were different radical who said they could bash 150, and they did 70."

Having a spot of humility helps marque a bully competitor, the trainer added.

@BodybyMark films the pushup competition's antheral victor during a meet-up successful Washington Square Park successful New York City connected May 12, 2026. (Kelly McGreal/Fox News Digital)

Pushups and planks people a "good wide baseline" for measuring fittingness level, according to Langowski. Some different basics see pull-ups, squats and endurance challenges, similar moving a mile — the benignant of basics included successful an simple schoolhouse fittingness assessment.

For those who haven't yet mastered these basics but privation to get successful amended shape, Langowski shared immoderate proposal connected however to get started.

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"Get with a trainer oregon idiosyncratic who knows however to advancement you," helium advised. "A batch of radical are like, 'I can't bash a pushup, truthful I'm ne'er going to bash one.’ That's not the way."

Langowski recommends starting with pushups connected your knees oregon against a wall, past gradually progressing to modular pushups by moving onto your toes and lowering yourself afloat to the crushed earlier pushing backmost up.

The trainer recommends starting with pushups connected your knees oregon against a wall, past gradually progressing to modular pushups by moving onto your toes and lowering yourself afloat to the crushed earlier pushing backmost up. (Milan Markovic/iStock)

"You'll beryllium amazed aft you bash that for a mates weeks, a mates months, a mates years – you're going to beryllium capable to bash a lot," helium said. "Nobody was calved being capable to bash 111 pushups. They enactment successful the enactment and they started somewhere."

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The trainer noted that successful summation to practicing, it's conscionable arsenic important to springiness the assemblage remainder and to enactment musculus maturation with due macromolecule intake and an wide steadfast diet.

But possibly the astir important measurement toward getting successful shape, according to Langowski, is having the information to get started

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"I cognize that's casual for maine to accidental – I've been successful fittingness and been comparatively acceptable astir of my life," helium said. "And I cognize a batch of radical are sitting connected the sofa and they either consciousness atrocious for themselves oregon they're going done a pugnacious clip … You’ve conscionable got to get retired there."

The trainer noted that successful summation to practicing, it's conscionable arsenic important to springiness the assemblage remainder and to enactment musculus maturation with due macromolecule intake and an wide steadfast diet. (iStock)

The trainer suggested starting with a elemental locomotion — adjacent conscionable astir the artifact — with nary gym instrumentality required.

"You don't request an costly gym rank to get successful bully shape," helium said. "Most of the radical that I halt connected the street, they don't person a gym rank astatine all. They bash it successful their surviving room."

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"And that's wherever you tin bash the exercises I mentioned – the squats, the lunges, the pushups," Langowski went on.

"So, I would promote radical conscionable to start, but besides to get immoderate friends oregon get a trainer, idiosyncratic to enactment you and bash it safely."