Five students at Escondido’s Del Lago Academy are hoping to create a new option for other students who might struggle to complete the state’s physical fitness test.

More specifically, they’d like to offer them a plank.

Freshmen Marcella Kuc, Maxwell Lee, Karina Perez, Nick Preston and Karen Tahuite are working with teacher Karin Helenschmidt to add the plank — which might be described as an arrested pushup, balanced on the forearms — to the state’s annual Physical Fitness Test.

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