I've never exercised or been to a gym in my life. Other than some basic Physical Education during High School (at least 50% of all lessons I managed to get out of doing throughout the entireity of school, instead ending up sitting on the sidelines chatting to whoever the PE teacher was about computers... I know, I know...). I'm also pretty lazy - I prefer to drive everywhere. And I have a job that involves not needing to do much other than sit at a PC - mentally strenuous, sure, but certainly not physically strenuous. I'm not fat - I'm 11 stone (69kg), and dot on 6 foot tall. But I'm not "fit", at all - unsuprisingly. I thought I'd have a go at this at last, just for the sheer embarassment/lulz, if anything. I'm also likely to abandon this after only a couple of sessions, or simply forget to do it, without some serious poking/encouragement/forcing from other people.
I sometimes get RSI in my wrists, which can be a bit dodgy, so I'm going to do "knuckle pushups" rather than the normal ones, shouldn't make any difference at all though.
"Initial Test" Result: 2 pushups. 2. Two. Yes, two.
So on that note, I should probably give in already, but I'll have a go at doing the easier "Knee" pushups for a while, and see if I actually get anything from this. So until I say otherwise, any ranks i give myself should be taken as a "half-measure" - knee pushups, not normal pushups. I'll let you know if I manage to get back to normal push-ups to 10+ at any point (if I don't just give up/forget about this before then).
So immediately after wearing myself out on the mighty 2 pushups, bar a few minutes break to write the above paragraph, here's my first test, knee-pushup style;
Week 1, test 1, knee-knuckle pushups: 7.