30 Day Plank Challenge

Kate O · 2014-06-28T11:38:41+00:00

Hi everyone! I've been reading a lot about the 30 day plank challenge, and I've seen some pretty impressive before and after abs pictures. Apparently it helps a lot with core strength, so great for shouldermounts etc. I've decided to give it a go, and if anybody else wants to join I'll post my 'before' pictures up that I just took and we can do it together! I'm using a free app called '30DAYS' which has loads of different challenges. You do an initial test of how long you can hold a plank (I managed 34 seconds)and it works out a programme for you based on that - I've got it on medium at the moment but may have to drop down to easy at some point :P so let me know if you fancy it!

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Veena · 7/14/2014
I can re-post the Challenge at the beginning of August if you wanted to start then.
AllysonKendal · 7/14/2014
I'm up for an August Abs Challange!!! That would be great Veena.!
Kate O · 7/14/2014
Yes please!! I know I started this thread but I've pretty much completely abandoned the planks...sorry guys :P
Veena · 7/14/2014
Don't be sorry, these things are super popular!
Kate O · 7/14/2014
I know, this one seemed to be all the rage so I'm disappointed it hasn't gone well! But hey, we all tried, and that's an achievement in itself. Thanks to all of you for giving it a go with me :) I agree with the rest of you, not enough breaks, it's too tough. Veena I am super excited for your challenge, we're learning aerial inverts in class and I can't quite manage it yet so I'm keen to work on my core!
sassylina · 7/14/2014
Am I the only one still hanging in there? Today will be day 15. I don't think I can ever do the 5 minutes of day 30. I probably will drop down to easy one of these days. But I keep on going. Just to the best of my ability. I am also doing the bridge challenge. That gets upped by 5 each day. But that is very doable.
Anzia · 7/14/2014
I'm with you, sassylina! If it gets too hard I will add in extra 'repeat' days to acclimatise more slowly. Just starting tonight's challenges. I hate the wall sit!!
CloSmo · 7/14/2014
I'm still here :) thinking of dropping to easy though!
shiodo · 7/14/2014
Still here too, but I am at the beginning, soooo ... not so hard for now.
chemgoddess1 · 7/14/2014
Anyone else not able to get the 30 days app to work?
grayeyes · 7/14/2014
I'm still in so far, tomorrow will be day 13 since it wouldn't let me progress until I completed the one I failed at, which I did two days later.
NessaJa · 7/14/2014
I'm still going to continue but I will increase the time a bit slower and maybe only do it every second day for the remaining time if I need to. I suppose though technically that's still not completing it :/
ferrous · 7/15/2014
I'm interested in trying the plank challenge! When I was poling regularly about 2.5 years ago, I loved doing planks! I can't recall exactly how long I could hold one for, but I'm pretty sure it was longer than a minute. Since then, the first plank I tried was yesterday in Veena's hard core warmup. I'm feeling it today. LOL!! :-D
ferrous · 7/15/2014
Oh, and as for the app, I can't get it to work, either. I have an iPhone 5S. Is that what the others who can't get it to work are also using? Maybe they haven't updated the app to the latest iOS. If that's the case, I might try it on my son's iPhone (my old one). Hopefully it'll work on that.
Anzia · 7/15/2014
Well done grayeyes! PoleTigress, that definitely counts and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. 'There are many routes to a successful outcome' and all that jazz... Ferrous, I'm on Android (Samsung Galaxy S3).
ferrous · 7/16/2014
I looked on the app developer's Facebook page and on the first post I see by someone else to their page, they have the same issue. Seems it was the latest update (to the app, I assume) that killed it, and that they've sent a fix through. This is regarding the iPhone version, so I assume the same happened with other versions. A screen shot taken just now.
chemgoddess1 · 7/16/2014
After I posted that comment I did some searching of myself and found the same thing. Supposedly they have sent the app bug fixes however last I checked it still has not been released. On that note my husband and I are just following the calendar one but starting wherever we tested into. Fucker started at two minutes!.
AllysonKendal · 7/16/2014
Men! Ugh! He'll be sorry later :)
Anzia · 7/16/2014
Day 9 done! :D
Smaed1 · 7/16/2014
Good job everyone!!! I've been doing my planks.. Working up to about 2 min. I'm sore! I couldn't get the app to work, so now I'm just using my stop watch and taking a screen shot of the times for my record. Good work to everyone!!!
ferrous · 7/16/2014
The app update is available and it now works. Woohoo! :-D
ferrous · 7/17/2014
OMG!! It's been almost three years since I did a plank and I did my starting one on the app and I did 82 seconds! Wow!! I'm so surprised! Haha! :-D
ferrous · 7/17/2014
I might take a pic of my buried abs tomorrow and post it here like others have. :-) It'll be cool to see the changes. :-)
sassylina · 7/17/2014
Ok so now with the new update my app doesn't work. Guess I will just do 2 minutes a day. Think that's good enough. I don't think I could do 5 anyways.
chemgoddess1 · 7/17/2014
You need the app dated 7/16. They had pushed out one on the 9th that killed everyone's app. See if you can update yours again.

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