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RE: 119,111 Total Team Reps (+2,620) - The Steemit Daily 100+ Rep Fitness Challenge - Day # 64 - 2/08/18
Oh, planking affects abdominal muscles and the back.
Here's planking. You hold this position for a period of time 
The legs should be close together and the tip of your toes lifting your lower half.
The second one is sideways planking. You gold the position for as long as you can. Again, both legs close to each other and this time your lower half is resting on the side of your foot while you push your upper body up with your elbow as thus
Awesome response. Thanks! I have to maybe ask the crew how we should count planks. I've heard that they're serious work, but seem hard to precisely quantify as reps when they're holding a position. I think 30 mins of planks for 100 reps is too hard to do, right?
Generally, are they cardio, what makes a rep, or is it something to acknowledge with a time formula? Open to suggestions...
its a time based exercise program so we could count five seconds as a rep, what say you?
Not a bad idea at all. I asked the question in the comments on the newest post to see what they think. Please reply with your suggestion there too so people see it coming from you, if you don't mind.
The longest I've been able to hold a single plank is 1 minute and 15 seconds. A friend of mine did 2 minutes straight which for me is insane. 10 minutes of planking in total is impressive and very solid work - I'm impressed!
5 seconds = 1 rep seems decent. I'd also be onboard with 10 seconds = 1 rep.
Cool - thanks a lot. Can you please just flip this feedback onto the latest post where I posted this as a fresh question for everyone to see today?