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There's a dude at my gym who just managed 45 mins!!!!!
Apparently he's done over an hour before....
...he's no spring chicken either, must be in his late fities!
My best is 4 mins 54 secs - my wife does 5 mins every day, she seems to think she could do between 6-8.
But 45!
Mental..
What's your best?
Apparently he's done over an hour before....
...he's no spring chicken either, must be in his late fities!
My best is 4 mins 54 secs - my wife does 5 mins every day, she seems to think she could do between 6-8.
But 45!
Mental..
What's your best?
Foliage said:
I stop at 3 minutes I didn't think going longer would be any good for you, and reduced it down to a max of 1 minute and started doing other exercises as well crunches etc, then added. I do used to do 3x3minutes.
Not that it isn't good for you but I assume if you can do a few minutes plank comfortably, you need to stop doing it and go do something harder.Plenty of plank progressions to think about - raising legs, repeated changes in leg seperation, moving up to hands and back down to elbows. One armed plank, adding in trunk rotations, bringing a leg/knee up to your armpit. After that you can bring in gym balls or bosu balls to add instability.
One of my favourites is to have feet on a ball, bring the knees in, then out and as you go back out raise one foot off the ball slightly, then bring that leg/knee in again and then rotate your body so the leg passes under. You have to hold the core whilst doing a fairly fast rotation. Good exercise for swimming which is essentially that.
Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Friday 5th February 16:28
I lose interest after 15 seconds and start doing push ups...
I'd rather do:
-front levers
-hanging leg raises
-hanging windscreen wipers
-hollow body holds
I can't bring myself to do planks for more than a couple of seconds. Don't bother posting that link saying how good they are - I don't give a s
t.
I'd rather do:
-front levers
-hanging leg raises
-hanging windscreen wipers
-hollow body holds
I can't bring myself to do planks for more than a couple of seconds. Don't bother posting that link saying how good they are - I don't give a s
t.http://furthermore.equinox.com/articles/2013/09/pl...
"Being able to hold a traditional plank for 10 minutes isn't very functional for anything except just that,"
"Being able to hold a traditional plank for 10 minutes isn't very functional for anything except just that,"
Zeek said:
http://furthermore.equinox.com/articles/2013/09/pl...
"Being able to hold a traditional plank for 10 minutes isn't very functional for anything except just that,"
YOU ARE WRONG. You might need a coffee table and not have one available..."Being able to hold a traditional plank for 10 minutes isn't very functional for anything except just that,"
V8covin said:
Hoofy said:
So basically a pushup challenge. 
If you say sohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41N6bKO-NVI
Hoofy said:
Are they not holding a plank at the same time ?V8covin said:
Hoofy said:
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