January plank challenge

Day 11 complete. Ready to move past 1 minute!

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Day 14 is done :heavy_check_mark:

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Day 14 :heavy_check_mark: The challenge is ramping up for sure!

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Day 14 done
Have found that distraction helps. So I set timer on my phone, then go onto a music app and choose a song. By the time I’ve done that, time is usually up. Goes a lot quicker than watching seconds tick down.

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Day 14. Done on the floor of office, that happens to have a glass door. Nobody was around, but the possibility did exist that somebody would walk by. The time went by pretty fast because I was thinking more about getting caught than the burning in my stomach. :sweat_smile::sweat_smile:

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Day 14: 3:07 That was hard. But i experience a training effect, but i am not sure it will be sufficient or quick enough. Stay strong :muscle:

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I’m in! Already at it 2 days and I feel it because I hate ab work​:rofl: Thanks for the challenge :v:

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Day 14 done! How on earth can I be breathing hard after 2 min 11 sec!!! :rofl:

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1 min 30 sec! Done

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Day 14 :heavy_check_mark: all these overachievers putting me to
shame :joy: but I’m still holding the whole time… for now

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Day 12 complete!

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Day 15 done!

For the last 20 seconds I whimpered like a dog begging. But I didn’t stop. These last two days I’ve gone farther than ever before and it’s interesting to push myself to this point of self-doubt and vulnerability: will I make it? Can I do it? Does it matter? And if so, what about this matters?

Is it the hitting of the goal that matters? Or is it the pushing and pushing and saying I’ll keep going one more second. And does one feed the other.

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Day 15 is in the books! Five more seconds then the last time, pleased with the little improvements every day!

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I’ve also been thinking a lot (from my experience in this plank challenge) about what it feels like to feel weak, and to feel strong, and to choose to be present in the moment, whether I feel weak or strong. I don’t know what it all means but it is something I am thinking about every day this month.

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Good for you Chris! :raised_hands: And good for everyone here, wherever they are! :innocent: :+1:

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I spent a lot of my life avoiding pushing myself out of my comfort zone, so a small challenge like this helps me flex some of those mental muscles, as well as build physical ones. And planking as metaphor …engaging and building strength in our core isn’t lost on me.

Plus, I am a big fan of baby steps…so anything with small doable increments interests me.

And of course also sometimes a plank is just a plank. :hugs:

Day 15 done amid lots of shaking. :heavy_check_mark:

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And we are halfway thru!! Slow and steady!!

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Day 12. Took Wed. As my first rest day then yesterday back dr. No solution or relief. But gonna keep pushing. Tomorrow bringing that number back up. Happy to be here among so many determined n pushing themselves forward.

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Yes!! Day 15 :heavy_check_mark:

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Day 15: Always trying to push myself a bit further. Today 3:30, but it did not feel good at all for the last 60 seconds - almost screaming because everything just hurts so bad - but 10 seconds afterwards all the pain is forgotten and i am a little bit proud to have come that far

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