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All Fours for the Core

June 23, 2020 by gracefulfitness Leave a Comment

Final week of #545healthiestme; 5 minutes of plank every day this week!

Don’t worry; I’d never even attempt, or recommend anyone else attempt, a plank hold for 5 minutes! Over the course of 5 minutes we’ll do variations with breaks.

Here’s Day One!

To recap the last four weeks of #545healthiestme (5 minutes per day, 5 days in a row);

Week One- Meditation

Week Two-Creative, Stream of Consciousness Writing

Week Three-Dance

Week Four- Self Massage

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Plank-o-ween

October 31, 2014 by gracefulfitness 3 Comments

I am feeling a plank challenge coming on…

Time to revisit the One Hour Plank!

The Plan:

5 minutes of plank variations (broken into multiple, short(ish) sets, this part is really important, there’s no way I’m holding plank for 5 straight minutes)

Multiplied by

3x/week

Multiplied by

4 weeks

Equals

ONE HOUR!

Who: me! you! your best friend! her boy-friend! your momma! my aunt! 😉

Why: plank works the entire body, is easy to do anywhere (like behind my desk when at the office later than expected!), and is easily modified to work with weakness, issues, and different fitness levels

What: any and all variations on plank, I’ll be re-posting workouts from last time I did the challenge as well as new variations to Facebook and instagram

When: we’ve got 4 weeks until Thanksgiving which sounds like a nice, pre/between-holidays timeline

How Long: I’m shooting for the full 5 minutes, 3 times a week, because that feels like the right amount of challenge to me but please, decide for yourself what is an attainable, healthy, challenging goal for you

Here’s my YouTube workout for Day 1’s variation, the video takes you through 90 seconds so you can repeat 2 or 3 times and fill in with plan ol’ high or low planks if you want to do 5 minutes.

I highly encourage bragging/boasting/encouraging others, the idea is that we remind and push each other to get this little mini-workout in three times a week for the next month.

And now, I will plank.

Happy Halloween! Hope your costume is more together than mine!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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