Ultimate Plank Fitness: For a Strong Core, Killer Abs - and by Jennifer DeCurtins

By Jennifer DeCurtins

A secure, difficult, and potent approach to center conditioning, planking is likely one of the most sensible how you can get healthy and toned. adaptations of planks are used throughout many health domain names together with conventional workforce workout, own education, domestic routines, yoga, pilates, barre, CrossFit and extra. not just are planks excellent for crafting six-pack abs, in addition they objective shoulders, pectorals, biceps, triceps, glutes, quads, and hamstrings. They bring up the center price, provide calorie-busting aerobic workout, and create fit muscle tone.

Ultimate Plank Fitness good points a hundred diversified adaptations of planks that may be used to customise your exercise routine. simply bring up the trouble of your middle strengthening workouts through including balance balls, gliders, and weights. every one workout features a step by step picture demonstration, issues of functionality, the place to have interaction, besides universal faults to notice how you can enhance your health. eventually, CrossFit trainer, own coach, and health teacher, Jennifer DeCurtins offers you ten 5-minute routines incorporating numerous planks so you might use to focus on difficulty parts and construct strength.

With numerous diversifications of the workout, starting from conventional planks to part plank diversifications and planks utilizing exterior weights or risky surfaces, your whole exercise session could be programmed round the plank! paintings your method to a fit middle with Ultimate Plank Fitness.

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This is one rep. indd 57 TEXT 26/11/14 5:43 pm 11/5/14 4:36 PM (Fogra 39) 39) Job:010-42022 Job:010-42022 Title:FW Title:FW -- Ultimate Ultimate Plank Plank Fitness Fitness (Fogra AC72493 Dtp:160 Dtp:160 Page:57 Page:57 CHAPTER FOUR side fOrearm SHRED YOUR OBLIQUES This chapter focuses on side variations of the forearm plank, similar to the full side planks in chapter 2. Even though side forearm planks can feel more challenging than the traditional side plank (because your bodyweight is closer to the floor), they feel more supportive for most people.

Side body sagging • Stack your hips and feet on top of one another to create a straight line from your head to your heels, and actively lift the side of your body up as high as possible. • Reach the hand on the lifted side down to wrap around the grounded wrist. Slightly rotate your chest and shoulders down, and gaze at your fist. indd 60 TEXT • Hips rotated forward or backward • Elbow placement not in line with shoulder PAYOFF This plank slims the waist and strengthens the side body. 26/11/14 5:43 pm 11/5/14 4:36 PM (Fogra 39) 39) Job:010-42022 Job:010-42022 Title:FW Title:FW -- Ultimate Ultimate Plank Plank Fitness Fitness (Fogra AC72493 Dtp:160 Dtp:160 Page:60 Page:60 42022 - Ultim 42022 - Ultim ess ess :60 :60 SIDE FOREARM PLANK LIFTED POSITION SKILL LEvEL: Intermediate MODIFICATION: Can be performed with split feet (to make it easier) Movement is introduced in this exercise with a hip dipping and lifting motion that will recruit the obliques to work even harder.

Make it easier to maintain square hips and a straight body position throughout the movement by placing your feet slightly wider than your hips. indd 32 TEXT • Bent elbows during the walkout • Sagging lower back PAYOFF This plank builds a rock-solid abdominal wall. 26/11/14 5:40 pm 11/5/14 4:34 PM (Fogra 39) 39) Job:010-42022 Job:010-42022 Title:FW Title:FW -- Ultimate Ultimate Plank Plank Fitness Fitness (Fogra AC72493 Dtp:160 Dtp:160 Page:32 Page:32 42022 - Ultim 42022 - Ultim ess ess :32 :32 FULL PLANK SKILL LEvEL: Intermediate MODIFICATION: Can be performed on knees (to make it easier) In this variation of a full plank, the feet remain static while the hands walk around in a semicircle or full circle (depending on space) and then back to the starting position to complete one rep.

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