5 Minute Plank

On Wednesday I was totally inspired by Petra Schoon's 5 minute plank video and all my TIU Team doing the Plank a Day challenge so I decided to mirror hers and create my own video!

It was no easy feat. It would be extremely fair to say that I have a love/hate relationship with planking and up until yesterday I have struggled to last longer than a minute. Planking is, of course, a fantastic ab exercise and I really reccomend this 5 minute version as it is more of a continual series of 5 mini planks. The series goes like this; 
0-1 minute: Elbow Plank (as pictured above)
1-2 minutes: Modified Side Plank
2-3 minutes: Arm Plank with Tummy Tucks (Extend your arms fully as if you were going to press up and bring your legs (one at a time) to reach your elbow)
3-4 minutes: Modified Side Plank (other side!)
4-5 minutes: Arm Plank (Press up posistion)


I'm not going to lie, it wasn't easy. I've got an ongoing shoulder injury and at one point, as you'll see in the video it gave out and I stopped for about 5 seconds, so please be careful if you've got any kind of injury! On  top of that your body will be trembling at the end of the five minutes!! So I wish you luck!


Here is my video, let me know if you've done it or you're going to do it or you were inspired my this video! 


Enjoy X