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I've chosen a few ab exercises to add to my daily fitness routine on top of my 20,000 steps, leg lifts, stretches, & free weights. I decided to start with planks. Now why I chose to do such a hellish thing to myself is beyond me but..oh, wait, wait, that's right...this is all because I decide to join the fitness challenge at work that goes from now until the end of October. Yes of course, how silly of me to forget.
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Also, once you get better at planks (probably pretty fast too, if you're consistently doing it every day), you might want look into different variations of planks. They "vanilla" planks tend to get boring after some time (really, you either increase the time you do them which is boring, or add weights which is hard when you're alone).
My favorite is sidestepping with one leg at a time except that you don't touch the ground with one of your feet. Basically, you shift your center of gravity very far to one side. In order to not to fall over, your abs and obliques have to work even more. Hellish, but incredibly effective.
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Oh, the plank side steps are what I'm doing. My feet are touching the ground though & when I 'rest' in the center it is in original plank form. I'm only doing 25 a day(actually 50 I guess since it's 25 for each side) to start with because I have 3 other ab exercises that I'm doing at 25 each. So I'm doing 100 leg lifts, 100 arm curls, 100 ab exercises, & my stretches along with my 20,000 daily steps. Sounds like a lot but those exercises are all done in about 10 mins, so roughly under an hour. I've found that incorporating small amounts of exercise daily is the most effective for me.
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