What would you recommend instead?
Edit: At the earlier stages it’s a strength exercise, but later, as your capacity improves, it becomes an endurance exercise. Again, the main purpose is to teach the body to resist forces that might cause you to hyperextend your lower back. Planks help prevent an anterior-posterior chain imbalance.
I don’t know if you’re kidding or not, but the point of the plank is to strengthen your abdominal muscles’ ability to resist motion and hyperextension of the back, not to generate it. But if you have any specific concerns about the exercise, I’d be happy to hear them and pass them along to my physio. Then I can come back and tell you what they said.
Yes he was, as far as I can remember.
Siler.
“Quick guys, he’s harming himself! That’s OUR job!”
“Today you, tomorrow me.”
Scumbags taking advantage of community spirit.
“Today me, tomorrow you”
In order to provide a “yes, this person is over 18” service for a vendor, the vendor has to know which real name (or other personally identifiable piece of information) to look up, don’t they?
So if you have to provide the vendor with a real name, phone number, ID card number or selfie that identifies the account “[email protected]” with “John Doe/555-4556/X1234567” that eliminates your anonymity, they’ve accomplished surveillance over your personal opinions and whatever other content you share. The real problem isn’t age verification, the problem is they’re trying to eliminate anonymity.
Yes, it’s encrypted. Wouldn’t be much of a point if it was just plaintext.
Neon lights? Sorry, that’s only covered by the Premium Plus Elite membership.
O’Brien would like to enter the competition, but he’s busy being tortured in a Cardassian prison.
Scorchio
Aggressive. Adversarial.
And then wonder why you haven’t built a statue of him.
Not saying you’re wrong, but sometimes when you lose someone important, you compartmentalize it so hard you’re basically denying to yourself that it happened. The ugly crying and breakdowns sometimes happen later, when it really sinks in.
Well, range of motion and stretch aren’t really valid criticisms for plank IMO. It’s intended to train your core to resist extension forces and train proper neutral posture under load in your lower back. Cable crunch doesn’t do that, and in the context of lower back pain, crunches could be detrimental. With the plank, there is progressive overload, if you do more than one set and you progress the exercise. This might look like an appeal to authority, but the trainers and physiotherapists I learned from state that.
You’re free to believe it’s a shit exercise, but I have personally benefited from it, and so have my clients.