{"id":435,"date":"2014-11-04T12:33:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T19:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/?p=435"},"modified":"2014-11-04T12:33:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T19:33:12","slug":"planksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"Planksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my short term fitness goals, is to increase the time that I can plank.\u00a0 Slowly I&#8217;ve increased the amount of time I can hold a plank. Planking is awesome and works so many muscle groups all at the same time.\u00a0 Always, in the first 15 seconds, I feel like I could hold the plank for days.\u00a0 Then after the first minute, I think I might die.<\/p>\n<p>YOU WILL NOT DIE FROM PLANKING.\u00a0 When you think you&#8217;re about to die, hold it 10 more seconds and you&#8217;ll find that you didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>So where do you start? I have found that everyone seems to have a different idea of what a plank is and what the proper form is to do it.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a link that I like and agree with: <a href=\"http:\/\/running.competitor.com\/2014\/03\/injury-prevention\/core-challenge-how-to-execute-a-proper-plank_42052\">How to Plank. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Planking, when done right, should hurt your entire core. It&#8217;s great for posture and strength.\u00a0 You can read about all the benefits: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livestrong.com\/article\/500440-what-does-the-plank-exercise-benefit\/\">Here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I often shake when I get close to my physical limit.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t let this distract you!\u00a0 Find a zone and forget about the time.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a great visual for this month to get you from not planking at all to a 3 minute plank.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;m currently around 2 minutes and I will be following this to push myself to three minutes. Join my on my goal this month: Planksgiving!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yogapantsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/dee275ed0351bb556c02d9168bc319c0.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-436\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yogapantsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/dee275ed0351bb556c02d9168bc319c0.jpg?resize=525%2C618\" alt=\"dee275ed0351bb556c02d9168bc319c0\" width=\"525\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yogapantsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/dee275ed0351bb556c02d9168bc319c0.jpg?w=695&amp;ssl=1 695w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yogapantsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/dee275ed0351bb556c02d9168bc319c0.jpg?resize=254%2C300&amp;ssl=1 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my short term fitness goals, is to increase the time that I can plank.\u00a0 Slowly I&#8217;ve increased the amount of time I can hold a plank. Planking is awesome and works so many muscle groups all at the same time.\u00a0 Always, in the first 15 seconds, I feel like I could hold the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/?p=435\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Planksgiving&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4PFDd-71","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}