<p>Has anyone tried this? It looks like a good way to pass the time as we are homebound from the weather. It also looks like a great way for everyone to strengthen their core. I just did it for 20 seconds and my tummy/hip area started shaking. How can I possibly be that out of shape…</p>
<p>[30-Day</a> Plank Challenge](<a href=“http://www.athleta.net/2013/12/27/30-day-plank-challenge/]30-Day”>http://www.athleta.net/2013/12/27/30-day-plank-challenge/)</p>
<p>I’m in! We do a pose like this in my yoga class once a week (although with straight arms on palms, not on elbows), and I am usually the first one to give up… I am going to try this starting today!</p>
<p>I’ve been doing a 40 second plank, and then 40 seconds each side for a side plank, two or three times a week for a year. In addition to heavy pilates. It is easier now than it used to be but it still isn’t easy! I don’t think I could do 300 seconds.</p>
<p>I’m in. Twenty seconds for today doesn’t sound so hard, but I’m afraid when it ramps up I’ll be suffering.</p>
<p>That was hard. Tomorrow, twenty again, right?</p>
<p>I’m in. Done for today</p>
<p>Looked simple, but I actually felt a bit dizzy in 20 seconds.</p>
<p>I’m in. Done for today!</p>
<p>I’m in! </p>
<p>Before my surgery I was up to almost a minute a few times a day. I’ll be happy if I can do 20 seconds now!</p>
<p>Oh, I’m in. This is going to be easy for a week or two! ;)</p>
<p>Man, I love fitness challenges.</p>
<p>I’m in. I take a prescription for acid reflex which I had forgotten for a few days. Not good when doing planks. I barely made it to 20 seconds.</p>
<p>This will be fun! Here is a link providing tips on form and more advanced positions.</p>
<p>[How</a> to Do the Perfect Plank | Greatist](<a href=“http://greatist.com/fitness/perfect-plank]How”>How to Do a Plank: Proper Form, Variations, and Common Mistakes)</p>
<p>Phew! Day One down.</p>
<p>Whole lot of shaking going on, but day one complete.</p>
<p>My son is a certified personal trainer and says that the shaking is normal. He showed me how to do the plank and I started shaking pretty quickly. I thought something was really wrong but he says that he shakes, too. 
He’s in phenomenal shape so when he told me the shaking happens to him, I didn’t feel so bad.</p>
<p>Did it! See you tomorrow!</p>
<p>FWIW… many trainers feel the plank has its proper place, but doing it any longer than 60 seconds doesn’t have any increasingly beneficial returns; it is overestimated. It may impress people, but you’d be better off doing it for 60 seconds, then doing something sort of dynamic movement.</p>
<p>This I can do.</p>
<p>I recently read that a guy held his body in a plank for 1.5 hours! I was wondering what the record for females was and came across this:</p>
<p>[How</a> grandmother, 72, who ‘couldn’t stand up from a chair’ lost 115lbs and set a world record for the longest abdominal plank | Mail Online](<a href=“How grandmother, 72, who 'couldn't stand up from a chair' lost 115lbs and set a world record for the longest abdominal plank | Daily Mail Online”>How grandmother, 72, who 'couldn't stand up from a chair' lost 115lbs and set a world record for the longest abdominal plank | Daily Mail Online)</p>
<p>:eek:</p>
<p>^ welp there goes every excuse I’ve ever had. Day one down!</p>