Holding the plank can never be harmful if you do it right… the form shown here is crap for example.

Most people do it wrong for some reason, can’t explain why.

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@CurtisPenner so your saying she can’t have a nice ass at the age of 49? Your dumb.

@CurtisPenner classic hahahaha clasasic *wipes a tear from his face*

AhHa the plank we had to do these in P.E. as a warm up AND a punishment the warm ups were 3 for 10 seconds but for the punishments we had to do this for 5 minuets and a wall sit for about the same time

when i do this what happens after a couple od minutes is that my abs are so tense i can’t really breathe and have to stop

my problem is getting to the correct plank position – and sometimes i feel i am working my arms and shoulders more than my core while doing planks.

@loxspliff1 Damn! my longest is 3 minutes! ;p;

@SleepinDevilX i doubt it

@loxspliff1 Yea you win a one way trip to back problems later on in life

@CurtisPenner shes certainly doing something right then, maybe its the planks eh?

I’m a swimmer in college, the first time i tried this i held it for 14 minutes so i win

@Sorkijan I think i’ll blackout just doing 1 rep

@BrokenPiecesOfHeart… yes I was talking about the video. But I do second you. Adding weight is supposed to increase resistence… however, adding weight to one’s back can increase the likelihood of back injury or pain. If a person finds it necessary to include resistence to their back during this excercise it would be more benficial for them to add more repetitions rather than actual real weight in order to decrease the likelihood of injury.

@chado2423
idk if you were thinking i was talking about the vid or not, but i was mentioning to some dude who said to put weights on your back. I don’t think that would be effective.

you’re supposed to keep your back straight… but it is not a good excercise for people who already have back or spinal cord injuries…. also this is not really the full Plank. The Full Plank involves leg lefts in addition to what is mentioned here.

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thanks

Strength Training: As long as you can
Toning and trim abs: 20 to 60 seconds
When I was doing amateur boxing we would do about 5 reps for 5 minutes each, helps out when a big guy throws a hard punch right into your gut.

Thanks

That wouldn’t be good on your back.

So that means it worked right? Maybe try putting more weight on your back or something.

iv been doing this for bout a month along side sevel other core and obliqu ecsercices but the plank seems to feel redunt now i cant feel it.

@rudysmustache for beginner do it for like 60 to 90 secs if you get better hold it for 2 to 4 minutes if you want to be even better try 5 minutes and up

im 15 yrs old and tried it for my first time and lasted 4minutes 53seconds