Day 184 – Week 27 – 27 mins

There is one exercise I live in fear of.

Whenever it would come up in a yoga class, or an aerobics class somewhere, I would start shaking with dread. Well – if I wasn’t shaking before the exercise, I certainly was afterwards.

Even the name of the exercise fills me with trepidation – conjuring up images of wild seas and pirates.

That’s right. You guessed it.

It’s ‘The Plank’.

Don’t tell me you haven’t felt the same, when someone tells you it’s time to do The Plank. My muscles are beginning to tremble just thinking of it.

But today – as I looked through my book of exercises you can do at home, trying to decide what I would do with my extra minute this week – the page fell open to the dreaded Plank.

I took a deep breath. Maybe now I was ready to tackle it.

I was delighted to discover there is a modified version you can do, where you keep your knees on the floor. Yippee! That’s the one for me I decided. As we all know – I’m all for gaining strength and fitness as slowly and painlessly as possible, and if I can do a half plank instead of a full one to get myself used to the idea, then I’m all for it.

There’s plenty of time to move on to a full and proper Plank at some other stage….

Suzi