We are wrapping up the push-up challenge this week. One of my best friends and former grad school roommates and I have been building to twenty push-ups. Sure they are modified but I can speak for myself when I say the my starting point was zero upper body strength.
Perhaps this month, I will take on the challenge again or find another one guiding of upgrading my push-ups to toes.
I have been incorporating planks in my workouts in order to minimize any shock to my body that the thirty day plank challenge may bring. Over the course of working out at home since mid-January, I have been able to increase planking from two to four sets of thirty seconds to fifty-five seconds each. The challenge my husband and I are doing starts at twenty seconds and builds to five minutes. Aggressive, I know, but I think the saving grace will be that one plank a day will be required of me. It is all mental right?
If you are interested in joining in*, this is the map of the challenge as numbered by day:
- 20 seconds
- 20 seconds
- 30 seconds
- 30 seconds
- 30 seconds
- Rest
- 45 seconds
- 45 seconds
- 60 seconds
- 60 seconds
- 60 seconds
- 90 seconds
- Rest
- 100 seconds
- 110 seconds
- 120 seconds
- 120 seconds
- 150 seconds
- Rest
- 150 seconds
- 150 seconds
- 180 seconds
- 180 seconds
- 210 seconds
- 210 seconds
- Rest
- 250 seconds
- 250 seconds
- 280 seconds
- 300 seconds
*I am not a certified / licensed fitness trainer, nor medical professional. As always, run this by your doctor.
Let’s meet back here next week, same time same place, for a check in?