Give me the verdict on these. Do they fricking do anything? wouldn't I be better off squatting and deadlifting for the supplemental core benefit?
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Give me the verdict on these. Do they fricking do anything?
they don't do nothing, but pretty much any dynamic exercise (decline crunches, leg raises, etc) will be a better time investment. front squats also really light my abs up.
I think any reasonably fit person can work up to several minute long planks with a few weeks of practice, but past a certain point they are really more of a test of mental fortitude than anything else.
that said, it can be fun to test your max plank every now and then. I just wouldn't make them a cornerstone of your core work.
>obssessing on gay niche alternatives
just stop
who cares
just frickin do it
>gay niche activities
>cannot hold a plank for 30 seconds
can you do one for a minute without shaking? if not you should probably do more planks
i prefer pulls/chins and dips for core
women have been psyopped into believing this exercise makes you good at sex so post a vid of you doing a 5 min long plank with a good arm pump.
other than that there's no point
Stop with the frick-a-boutism. Buy a bench and a set of dumbbells and do a real fricking workout holy shit you fricking moron.
>bench
>dumbbells
>real workout
lmfao
let me guess, you need 300 pounds in barbells and weights you can't even lift, for your world record breaking right?
>do a real workout you fricking idiot
>*gets winded walking up some stairs*
The state of powerlifters
Let me see you do 100 burpees in 10 minutes. 10 per minute for one minute is fricking easy. 10 per minute for 10 minutes will shame you.
Arms should go over head for shoulder workout
Do 10 sets of 30 instead
Better is to set a time limit and increase reps within that time limit.
an exercise with a name that gay isn't worth giving credence to
>he picks and rejects exercises based on how gay their names sound
Based and chadpilled.
Don't call your own posts based, homosexual. You are not a ISTner, you have no humour, you don't call people Black person, you will never fit in.
do the ab roller instead.
Make sure to start with the red one thoughever
They do nothing unless you're fat or extremely weak (female). Holding isometrics for more than a minute is a complete waste of time.
Real question:
shouldn't isometrics really work your muscles, ie. strength and hypertrophy, if done at 60-90 seconds intervals to failure and progressing by adding weight to them?
I've been thinking of adding weighted isometrics to my routines since they're supposed to improve strength and promote growth.
>core muscles are designed to, and worked by, resist movement of the spine
>work your core by moving your spine!!!
Lmao
>core gets a pump from moving my spine
wow!
I like to do them at work when I'm alone. And push-ups and squats and dips. Unfortunately no good places to do pullups.
My wife Miku
no
No one here works their core. These work your core.
They’re fine but a beginner exercise. You should incorporate dynamic movement into them if your not a woman or senior citizen- ie Spider-Man planks, body saw, mountain climbers, etc.
the abdominal muscles are meant as primarily anti extension and anti rotation muscles. There's a reason why when people introduce active range of motion in the abdominal muscles (such as with sit ups or loaded flexion) they end up injuring themselves.
if you can do a lalanne pushup, your strength has surpassed the plank. Until you can do a lalanne pushup, you will gain benefit from doing planks and other stretched position exercises for the abs.
The only 'safe' flexion exercise for the abs is a reverse crunch, you can flex your hips and knees to promote active insufficiency in your hip flexors to turn them off, and then use your abs only to reverse crunch. You can also do hollow body holds
gayest moron newbie exercise possible. hit cable crunches and leg raises. even ab roller is better than planks.
cable crunches put far too much strain on the discs, leg raises put far too much emphasis on the hip flexors (you turn the hip flexors off if you bring your knees to your chest), and ab roller suffers from the same problem as the leg raises.
You don't know what you're talking about and it shows. I suggest you learn to lift before giving lifting advice
>he does full rom leg raises
>he doesn't sit on his heels to cable crunch
>his "discs" are so weak he can't cable crunch
mios dio
mcgill's curl up is way too popular, but the problem with his curl up is that it quickly becomes very easy
shirley sahrmann is a legendary physio and her abdominal strengthening progression is far harder and exercises the core sufficiently.
i extend my elbows out further in front of me when i do planks, that shit fricks me up and i can hold normal planks for 3+ min, is that the way to progressively overload these?
i think the OG kettlebellers did a version where they flex their ass and legs as much as they can, do the serratus anterior scapular pushup thing
then try to pull their arms towards their feet while planking
it hits the abs more that way but i still prefer a cheap ab roller
youre welcome
I could plank for 5 minutes before I ever started working out, people would comment on it at the mma club I used to go to. idk what the big deal is. If you walk everywhere you probably have those muscles already.
I do these superset with superman hold, 3/2, 2/1, 1/0.5 min, after my posture is straighter than ever