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Didn't see it in the article but planks are just as good (if not better) with much lower impact.
by Wohlf 4y ago
Didn't see it in the article but planks are just as good (if not better) with much lower impact.
- hprotagonist 4y agoAnd once you can plank for a minute, you might as well do (modified or normal) push-ups.
- kirse 4y agoI just stack plates on my back, weighted planks are great for building core strength for heavy DLs/Squats. V-holds / dead bug holds also awesome.
- syntheweave 4y agoAnd once you're doing push-ups you can progress it into the lizard or Spiderman crawl(contralateral motion forward while bringing the body to a lowered push-up position) and engage the legs, hips and shoulders. Crawls in all their variants have become my go-to exercise because they are great full-body movements, can be done on many surfaces(tartan running tracks are my favorite, at least for outdoors), are easy to vary further by adding slope or directional changes, and are simple to make loaded by wearing a backpack and stuffing it with weight(just make sure it doesn't fall out).
- ssorallen 4y agoThe plank is mentioned toward the end: “In the past decade, every branch of the U.S. military has begun to phase out sit-ups and crunches from their required testing and training regimens, or else they have made them optional, alongside more orthopedically sound maneuvers such as the plank.”
- scoot 4y agoOn what basis are isometric exercises better? You might as well say that standing is better exercise than running. For injury prevention? Maybe. For health and fitness? Not so much.
- yakshaving_jgt 4y agoHow long can you hold an L-Sit?
- pringlepong 4y agoHave you ever held a plank for, say, 60 seconds? I can't imagine someone who has suggesting that planks are to situps like standing is to running.
- scoot 4y agoYes. Ten minutes is my record. (That was the target, didn't aim for longer). The point is that static exercise only builds strength at the particular muscular extension tested by the exercise. With planks your core remains weak for anything that doesn't resemble a plank, just as standing doesn't meaningfully improve your running.
- andreareina 4y agoOn the basis of the principle of specificity: the major function of those muscles under load is not to provide rigidity to the trunk to help transmission of power, and the mechanism by which it does this is isometric (or nearly so in the case of e.g. carries) contraction.
- andreareina 4y agoGah. s/not//
- moneywoes 4y agoWhat about leg raises? Especially on the machine where you are lifted up a bit with your arms. I do decline crunches, should I stop?
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