Captain Push-Up: Plank Game

Captain Push-Up turns your plank into an arcade game. Put your iPhone on the floor, get into a push-up position facing the screen, and the front camera follows the height of your eyes. Push up, the Captain flies up. Lower down, he flies down. Loaded bars slide across the gym, and you hold whatever position gets him through the gap. No tapping, no controller. Your body is the joystick, and the game only moves while you hold the plank. HOW A ROUND GOES Press Play and do one push-up: that is all the calibration there is. Then the bars come. Some gaps are high (arms straight), some are low (chest near the floor), some are in between. The longer you last, the faster it gets. Want a set length? TIMED mode gives you a round from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. POINTS THAT REWARD ENDURANCE Every bar you pass scores. Your multiplier climbs with your progress, up to x5, so the end of a long round is…