Planking Challenge
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Challenge complete! (Only took me three months to do a 30 day challenge...lol)
May continue to try to see how long I can hold a plank to see if I can eventually get up to just 1 plank for the full 5 minutes...
Correction for total time yesterday - should have been 310 seconds total.
Day 30 of 300 seconds - Done!
(3 sets - 124 sec, 93 sec, 94 sec = 311 seconds)
Ok so I don't feel so bad for not completing it because of my back. I will get back to the challenge and try again. You have inspired me just because it took you three months to complete! Awesome job! Thank you for not giving up.
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Apparently I forgot to post here yesterday. So I will post for yesterday and today.
Day 13 - 130 seconds done
Day 14 - 140 seconds done2 -
I'm on day 9. It is tough. Anyone see results?1
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@reland it gets harder as the seconds increase. If you follow the calendar, they ask for big 30 second increases every 3 days or so and I believe @RMac0001 is doing his by increasing 10 seconds per day. I like the way RMac is approaching it, smaller increments. Not such a shock. Lol.
I think the "results" part of it is more about "I did it!!" (It's hard to get to 5 minutes.) Good luck.0 -
Forgot to post the last few days. Days 10-13 ✔️1
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Day 15 - 150 second plank. Half way through this *kitten*. Is it harder every time? Hell yes! Am I seeing any benefit or results? Yes actually I am. My back feels stronger and my core feels stronger. Each day I increase, the shakes take longer to start.2
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I meant to post the other day to @reland, and I got sidetracked.
Agree with @RMac0001 that even with my breaking it into sets, I felt my core was much stronger (had a much easier time in my last paddleboard race even though it was the longest I've done) and I also noticed that by the end of the challenge I wasn't getting the shakes until around the 40-45 second mark (rather than 10-20 seconds like when I started). I can also see a physical improvement in my abs area where I'm getting a center line definition in my abs (which I've never had before). I'm hoping once I lose some more belly fat, I might have at least a 4 pack under there...I'm still doing planks M-F, but just not logging here.
Thinking of a slightly different challenge to start in Sept for those wanting to continue a plank journey without the set seconds from this 30 day challenge...though maybe I could do a second half of August challenge in prep for it...hmmmm...1 -
40 secs done ✔️1
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50 sec done✔️1
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Keep forgetting to log here
Day 16 - 160 seconds done. Actually had to do this twice because my wife was doing the timer and stopped it at 120 instead of 160. So I had to start again and do the full 160
Day 17 - 170 seconds done
Day 18 - 180 seconds done3 -
Way to rock it @RMac0001!!!
Welcome back @treecroz! I'll post the challenge thread here that I'll start at the beginning of Sept. It's just going to be a total minutes per month for planks, so you can do any types of planks (if you want to do variations) and as few or as many at time as you want and in as many sets as you want. I didn't get off my butt on the 16th to start a mini-challenge for August as I had thought I might do.1 -
60 sec ✔️1
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Way to rock it @RMac0001!!!
Welcome back @treecroz! I'll post the challenge thread here that I'll start at the beginning of Sept. It's just going to be a total minutes per month for planks, so you can do any types of planks (if you want to do variations) and as few or as many at time as you want and in as many sets as you want. I didn't get off my butt on the 16th to start a mini-challenge for August as I had thought I might do.
Can't wait to see what you got!1 -
70 sec ✔️1
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I tried my planks, but just couldn't hold it in proper form today! But I did do 3 sets 20, 30, 30 = 80 ✔️1
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Day 19 and 20 were a fail as I didn't do anything.
Day 21 - 210 seconds complete2 -
Oh, la. Back from holidays. 180 secs plank done in two sets. Frig.
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I see I was supposed to go up to 3 minutes today. I suck at keeping up with an exercise syllabus and a school syllabus at the same time; I've just been tacking on planks to the end of my cardio workout.
8/22 150 seconds.1 -
Day 22 - 220 seconds complete2
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count me in! gotta work on my core after baby number four!
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90 secs done!1
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Day 23 - 230 second plank done2
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Day 24: 240 second plank complete2
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Day 25: 250 second plank complete1
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I keep forgetting to post here.
Day 26 - 260 second plank complete
Day 27 - skipped
Day 28 - 280 second plank complete
Day 29 - 290 second plank complete
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RMac0001 I don't know how you do it! Awesome job!1
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@treecroz and others, I've posted a slightly more flexible plank challenge thread for Sept...it's here for those that want to join - http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10451329/60-minute-plank-challenge-sept-2016/0
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Day 30 - 300 second plank1
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