Winter 2018 - Week 3 - Challenge - Core Strength
SmithsonianEmpress
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Ladies,
This week let’s focus on our tummy and its muscles. Join me in completing these planks. Modify (on your knees) if you need to. Challenge yourself (off your elbows onto your hands) for that extra push. Try these a couple of times throughout the day and give us your feedback as often as you’d like.
Ready. Set. PLANK!!!
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Explain this more, i need to work on my tummy. How long do you stay in that position, and how many do you do?0
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Great idea!! I was looking at my tummy this morning and I was thinking I need to find something to start toning it ... perfect timing! Thanks!1
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I also think it was perfect timing, if there is one place I would like to improve on is my tummy. 20 seconds done1
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My coworker and I are planking every day - we challenged each other! We’re up to a minute. It’s so good for you!1
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SophieRonda wrote: »I also think it was perfect timing, if there is one place I would like to improve on is my tummy. 20 seconds done
Awesome! Try another round before bed and consider yourself outdoing YOURSELF
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No planks for me. I did one and cracked a toenail. Too much weight to lift. I turned around and did traditional abs.1
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20” x 3 done! 25” x 3 done! Let’s see tomorrow how long I can last because I hardly made it
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Day 1 and 2 done! Trying to do them 3x a day also. After having a c section in 2007, I feel like I am still rebuilding my muscles, ugh. But after having two successful VBAC's in 2012 and 2015, I am working on hip strength and stability. I always had amazing pregnancies and fairly rough deliveries, lol.1
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Yesterday : 5 sets of 20 second planks with 10 second rests in between. The last two sets had me shaking!
Today I’m taking the day off.2 -
Great job ladies. Keep up the awesome work
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1 plank - 1 minute 20 seconds. It was tough!1
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I haven’t done planks before so I’m just going to do 5 20 second planks each day.2
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3 x 30” done!
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My trainer has me do planks in sets of 15 secs. More manageable But in some ways feels harder. Back to the gym yesterday and I haven't worked out with her since before Xmas, I managed to do 5 sets of 15. I was dying.
Right after, she had me do dead bugs with straight legs (beginning I did it with knees bent). I was dying. But glad I got through it. She said I did well for not having trained much since I last saw her and being sick. http://www.stack.com/a/dead-bug0 -
My trainer has me do planks in sets of 15 secs. More manageable But in some ways feels harder. Back to the gym yesterday and I haven't worked out with her since before Xmas, I managed to do 5 sets of 15. I was dying.
Right after, she had me do dead bugs with straight legs (beginning I did it with knees bent). I was dying. But glad I got through it. She said I did well for not having trained much since I last saw her and being sick. http://www.stack.com/a/dead-bug
Those dead bugs look killer.0 -
Okay. I just completed 3 rounds of planks for 30 seconds each (on my elbows) with 15 seconds of rest in between. I jut finished a POPSUGAR workout so I’m beat. That’s all I had. Tomorrow I will do more sets to really get my core burning.
Goodnight!0 -
I’ve been planking along! The shoulder strength and keeping my arched back straight is is what I’ve always struggled with. Getting better though...0
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3 x 40" done! It was hard! not sure if because I did them after spinning for an hour or because my core is a marshmallow lets see tomorrow how it goes ... 55"?
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Still here. Still planking. STILL. HARD.
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I made it to 1:30 today, but after 1:15 I could really feel the burn!1
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Just throwing a tip out, but straight arms planks are way easier for me personally. I can probably triple my plank time in the pushup position.0
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So I tried 55” and didn’t make it
max was 3 x 45”
I guess if I lift my butt a bit I could last longer but my understanding is that is the incorrect way so will continue as I am now ... hopefully some day soon I can make it longer than 45” 0 -
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Thank you ladies who pushed yourselves a little harder last week by adding these planks to your routine!0
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