I’ll share an experience of a significant exercise. All exercises are very beneficial for our bodies. Each exercise has abundant benefits and serves different purposes. It’s not possible to cover all exercises together, but I’ll try to share each one based on my experience. If you know how each exercise benefits you, you can easily understand and certainly benefit from it.
Today, I’ll talk about the plank exercise.
The plank is a very important and useful exercise. It’s an exercise that trains many muscle groups simultaneously, and it’s very effective for quickly toning the muscles. It can be said to be a full-body exercise.
Due to sitting at the computer all day, I had problems with my lower back. I’ve seen many doctors and taken medicines, but nothing worked. Then I started exercising, including doing planks.
*How did I understand what each exercise was doing?
I pay close attention while exercising to understand what each exercise is targeting and what benefit I’m getting from it.
*The problems I faced!
In the first few days, I couldn’t hold the plank position for more than 10-15 seconds. I didn’t have much strength in my arms to support my body weight.
There was a lack of patience and concentration in holding myself, and I felt pain in my arms, chest, almost my entire body, and core muscles.
*How did I understand the benefits of planks?
I started holding the plank position for 30 seconds continuously after 7-8 days. I could feel the increase in strength in my arm muscles, and my stamina and focus were gradually increasing.
After a month, I had forgotten about my lower back pain. When I sat straight, I used to feel pain in my back, but now I can sit straight without any discomfort.
Strength and focus have increased, which is essential not only for exercises but also for regular life.
Being in the plank position for a while makes the body and mind feel light, reduces mental stress, and makes you feel energetic.
Doing it regularly every day will help reduce belly fat and contribute to overall body toning.
There are many more benefits, but these are the basics.
Those who say that just doing planks can reduce belly fat are not entirely correct because doing just one exercise can’t burn your belly fat. Planks are indeed a good exercise, but that doesn’t mean you can burn your belly fat with it alone. You need to do many more exercises that are beneficial for your body and can help in fat burning.
There are many types of plank exercises:
– Mountain climber plank.
– Side plank.
– Push-up position plank.
– Plank knee to elbow.
– Forearm plank.
– Plank walk.
– Plank jacks.
– Forearm to push-up plank.
– Alternating arm plank hold.
– Alternating leg plank hold.
– Superman plank hold.
– Side plank hip abduction circle.
– Plank barrel roll.
– Side plank roll through.
– Plank hop to squat.
– Alligator plank walk.
– Plank down dog to toe tap.
– Side plank reach through.
– Side plank star hold.
– Circular plank.
– Buzzsaw.
– Plank with single-arm fly.
– Reverse plank.
– Knee tuck to downward dog.
I like all types of planks very much, and they are very effective. But since you can’t do all of them together, I do them interchangeably. Among them, I mostly do side planks and forearm planks.
If you can do this exercise regularly every day, you will see a remarkable change.
This exercise works on your core, abdomen, thighs, and glutes simultaneously.
*How to do it:
Do it as shown in the picture below.
