I saw a link today on Facebook for a "5 minute plank challenge." Basically, you add time a little a day until you can do a plank for 5 minutes. Why on earth would anyone do this?
I saw a link today on Facebook for a "5 minute plank challenge." Basically, you add time a little a day until you can do a plank for 5 minutes. Why on earth would anyone do this?
How on Earth could anyone not be able to do this.
fisky wrote:
I saw a link today on Facebook for a "5 minute plank challenge." Basically, you add time a little a day until you can do a plank for 5 minutes. Why on earth would anyone do this?
Probably to get a strong core. Idk though.
any reasonably fit runner should already be able to hold plank for 5 minutes, even if they've never done plank in their life. It will hurt a bit, but its not that hard. The question is if there are any benefits in holding plank beyond 3-5 minutes. This is like doing a single set of 200 pushups or 50 pullups or something every night. Teens and maybe college age runners do it because they get an ego boost, but tend to stop when they realize there really isn't much benefit to their running.
edward teach wrote:
any reasonably fit runner should already be able to hold plank for 5 minutes, even if they've never done plank in their life. It will hurt a bit, but its not that hard. The question is if there are any benefits in holding plank beyond 3-5 minutes. This is like doing a single set of 200 pushups or 50 pullups or something every night. Teens and maybe college age runners do it because they get an ego boost, but tend to stop when they realize there really isn't much benefit to their running.
First you say that any reasonably fit runner should be able to do it without ever attempting it, and its not that hard.
Then, you liken 3-5 minutes of plank to doing a SINGLE set of 200 pushups or 50 pullups.
Call me crazy but your two statements don't seem to add up. Both the pushups & pullups seem pretty impressive.