How long can you plank for ?

[pawl]

I usually do three one minute reps three times a week following my physio band exercises.I started with 30 seconds reps working up to the one minute reps.

 

[numbnuts]

The temptation to say look in a mirror

 

[Accy cyclist]

We are talking about 'planking' on the floor and not on a bike like this aren't we?

. I thought you were all actually capable of doing it on a bike when i first read what it was and how you all seem to have tried it! So it's like press ups,but you freeze half way through the 'press up' and see how long yu can hold that pose for,i take it?

 

[Drago]

Now, that wasn't planking. That was trying to gain slight advantage by means of harnessing ones farts as a means of propulsion.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Now, that wasn't planking. That was trying to gain slight advantage by means of harnessing ones farts as a means of propulsion.

That's bean said before! Ha! get it? Bean as in baked beans,as opposed to been said. shoot joke or what?!

 

[Sharky]

and I thought it was something to do with Eric Sykes and Tommy Cooper etc

 

[Dave Davenport]

Mrs D challenged me to a 'plank off', she did eight minutes, I'm sure she must have cheated but I haven't worked out how.

 

[ColinJ]

Mrs D challenged me to a 'plank off', she did eight minutes, I'm sure she must have cheated but I haven't worked out how.

By being a lightweight?

 

[vickster]

By being a lightweight?

Or simply as a consequence of being a member of the superior sex obviously

 

[Tail End Charlie]

I started yesterday at 12.55. In a few minutes, I'll have done 24 hours. Can I stop then?

Seriously, there's a lot of sense in what reiver says. I can plank for a while but only if I use other muscles than my core. Using core only I collapse after a very short time. Pilates showed me where my core muscles actually are.

 

[ColinJ]

Or simply as a consequence of being a member of the superior sex obviously

Well, I have certainly known some extremely athletic women! (I was going to call them 'fit', but I'm sure that would have resulted in predictable comments...)

One of the things that impressed me most about my ex in our early days together was when she did her yoga routine. She was doing postures that I couldn't get into, and holding ones that had me crumple into a heap after a few seconds. She once did a headstand for about 5 minutes with various very strenuous-looking slow leg movements above her inverted trunk.

 

[G3CWI]

A thread title that could easily be misread by the plankers on here.

 

[HLaB]

Whats a plank?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=plank

 

[subaqua]

Mrs said I have been a plank as long as she has known me .. that’s 20 years

 

[Shortandcrisp]

As someone who has suffered a spinal cord injury, I don’t subscribe to all this bollox about the plank being good for core strength. Anything which allows you to support your own body weight at three (or four) points is gonna do very little. Trust me, getting out of a low armchair requires much more core strength!
Besides, very little core strength is required to ride a bike.