Actifit Fitness Competition: Plank your way to 10,000 AFIT tokens!

in #actifit6 years ago

In line with our mission to drive everyone to live a healthier and more active/fit lifestyle, and as promised a week ago, we are excited to announce our first official large scale Actifit competition !

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Plank your way to 10,000 AFIT tokens

Plank is an amazing core strengthening exercise that engages several muscles groups, including abs, back, and shoulders, with involvement from the traps, delts, pecs, glutes, and quads (check out more details on wikipedia)
Our competition involves incentivizing you to give this exercise a try, hopefully for 1 week, to bring your best record by the end of this week.
If you perform this on a daily basis, you will mostly be able to get better results towards the end of the week and hence have a higher chance to win!

Proper Plank Form

We are looking for entries in the standard plank form, as depicted in the picture above. You can also find some cool guidelines about doing the proper form in this video below

Competition Rules

  • You have one week to submit one entry for the competition. Deadline is by this post's payout, so the 25th of September.
  • You can make as many trials as you want, on your own, but the single entry you submit here needs to be your one and only, on the risk of being disqualified.
  • You will need to record a video of your plank submission to qualify. You are welcome to use dtube or any other video hosting service of choice.
  • To submit an entry, create a post with the title "My entry to the Actifit Plank Competition", and use the tags #actifit and #actifitcompetition
  • Once your post is ready and you're happy with your result, please also write a comment on this post with a link to your entry.
  • You are not required to upvote nor resteem this post, although spreading the news would be great !

Judging

  • The person who registers the longest timing in his plank video will be the winner.
  • If we suspect any video manipulation, you will be disqualified.
  • Actifit team will be the judge of the competition, and our decision will be final.
  • Results will be announced shortly after post payout

Prizes

  • The top winner will be rewarded 10,000 AFIT tokens, as well as 100% upvote cast from the @actifit account.
  • The second runner up with be rewarded 3,000 AFIT tokens, as well as 30% upvote cast from the @actifit account.
  • The third position with be rewarded 2,000 AFIT tokens, as well as 20% upvote cast from the @actifit account.

During this period, you could also be using our Actifit app to earn more AFIT tokens Android iOS, also by delegating to @actifit account as well whereby you would earn daily AFIT tokens as a share of the 100,000 AFIT tokens daily pool.

To delegate, you can use any of the following links:
10SP, 20SP, 30SP, 50SP, 100SP, 250SP, 500SP, 1,000SP, 5,000SP, 10,000SP, 20,000SP, Custom Amount
Make sure you have at least 15 SP left on your account.

@actifit team

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If you have any health problems or risks, please do not engage in any activity that can be harmful to your safety, and/or consult with your physician before doing that.

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ok. but guys.... that girl is not doing a proper form!
REALIZE that the plank should be pain free in lower back.
her plank will make your lower back hurt as hell and that will not be plank at all but a lower back exercise,
REMEMBER you need to tuck in your butt(no matter how big your booty is you got to make it FLAT. ) make the lower back straight. only then you will be able to achieve long lasting results. and proper form without any future degradation of your SPINE.
it will take you months to cure yourself from lower spine wrong tilts.
it is an ab exercise not lower spine exercise, it is targeting the whole core.
if you are feeling PAIN in LOWER BACK STOP the exercise . look at how you are doing it. strive for proper painless form.

PLEASE realize that there are many instructors out there who dont know anything about body mechanics. use your own brain to know which is better and healthier to do. and pass on the knowledge.

PEOPLE HATE PLANKS COS THEY DONT KNOW HOW TO DO THEM WITHOUT THE PAIN.

WRONG PLANKS


PLANKS DONE RIGHT

HAPPY PLANKING

Thank you my friend!!! :) <3333

I will remember this for sure. Thank you

At least it's good that this app is getting ppl to exercise more

I am in.
EDIT: holy hell the world record is over 8 hours.

we're not looking for a new world record, unless you can make it happen :D

I would say 8 seconds is already nice 😜

I see, the chinese guy!
Crazy!!!

holy hell indeed. Please don't tell that guy about the contest.

bwahahahahah <333

Always wanted to try it! I'm in, but don't expect me to win something... :)) It will be fun!

we're looking forward to seeing your results !

10 minutes?????!!!!!! Tell me this is some sort of time lapse photography thing!

nope, no timelapse. no edits either. just a man and his will.
lol i do it shirtless when im alone, cos heat dissipates better, but im camera shy so i wont get half naked for steemians lol. maybe in future...
my personal best is 15 mins. focusing on breathing. is a major key. it allows the body not to get too exhausted. and overheated.
but a person really dont need to go above 3 mins for the benefits of a plank. heck even two mins is all it takes. next step is to do it with a little weights.

i spent cold winter nights training just to keep warm. lol.

but to be able to do it longer. one does need to train his lower back. and posture. in a certain way. so that the form would not break down.
if you really wanna test your ab strength and lower back strength then do this and see how long you can last
1 lie down on back flat as possible.
2 lie so that you would not have free space between lower back and ground.
3 raise both legs straightened at 45angle. keep them.
4 while maintaining your lower back in contact with the ground.
time it.

most people cant withstand even 30 secs like that. cos its so darn hard. and the weak lower back spine muscles shows themselves.
i remember how i started to do this exercise to strenghten my lower back.
i did it with one leg at a time. untill i could do it with both legs.
cheers.

Right off the first rip. Dang homie!!! I will be checking your entry out shortly. hehe <333

Hi. I have done mine. Few days training doesn't get me anywhere. This is all I got. Uploaded via #dtube. Pardon on the radio I was listening to whilst doing my planks.

https://steemit.com/actifit/@davidke20/9mw5tfjw

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Right on :) <333 Great job @davidke20

Here is my entry - if I counted it right, I am at 2 min 41 or 42 seconds. You will hear a lot of funny noises - especially at the end LOL

I am all for age categories 😜

So, I am entering the female 60+ division 😂

❤️<3❤️<3❤️!!

Oh dear. So far I have only done one type of plank called flat punctured plank - sleep. Although yes I tried plank before the most is 60 seconds. And my abdomen was shivering.

I shall see whether am I up to it. Or else I shall enjoy others video. Thank you for this awesome content. Way to go @actifit.

Mari², time to challen

no no you gotta give it a try ! :)

I just found out about this contest now, so I went ahead and tried it. 53 seconds? LOL. Oh well! It was fun to try: https://steemit.com/actifit/@phoenixwren/my-entry-to-the-actifit-plank-competition

I think you are currently in third place as I look through 'all' the entries here on this post!

EDIT: oh boy just found a 10 minute entry that I had somehow missed....well, I respect your effort :)

HOLY COW ten minutes??! They must have like superhero movie actor abs, damn. 😯

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