Plank are an effective core training exercise. Your core includes you abdominals, obliques, and back muscles. However, planks also work chest muscles as you stabilize yourself in a push-up position. When you are stabilizing yourself in a plank position you are working your arms, shoulders, legs, glutes, and neck muscles.
No equipment is required for planks, except to perform the exercise or as some may say "Just Do It." If you would like to advance the movement, try to hold the plank for 10 seconds and then do a push-up and come back to the plank position for a count of 10 seconds. Try to complete as many reps as you can because there is no race to get them completed. After you are done and during make sure that you are hydrating yourself with water or my personal favorite a Gatorade Zero cherry flavor.
Remember to take your time and build up repetitions for any type of exercise. Make sure that you have a primary care provider that you follow regularly to determine what type of exercising you can to based on your general health. Congratulate yourself on any accomplishments that you make toward your mind, body, and spiritual wellness.
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