Hello fellow S and F'ers. I want to share how I have tried to fit in planking and other aspects of S and F into my life.
A while ago I got the office into planking. It was one of those things that happened spontaneously and then grew. We have an 11.00 plank.... not every day, but when time allows with whoever is about, and wants to joins in. We started small and then worked up to plank routines of up to 5 minutes. We put on the radio and just get down on the floor. I also do a round the clock plank for days when I dont have many meetings. You choose which plank and stick it on the time, and off you go. Makes it fun.
More recently we started the WOF ( wall of fun) which you can see in the pic. This has enabled more of the workforce to join in as planks are a challenge. We all line up on the wall and do a minute and a half ( we started at 30 seconds and we are working up to 5 minutes...). We all have a laugh and it gets us out of our chairs for a bit. Something to think about for where you are?
Other ideas for keeping active:
Squats when you are doing the tea round
Going up and down the stairs a few times
Walking round the car park at lunch
Sit on a ball ( I do this and when the sun catches it at a certain angle it looks like my bum is on fire.... its red)
Please share your own ideas so we can all adopt S and F into every part of our lives.... and keep it fun
Juju
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This is exactly what I needed to hear too! I have a very busy work life (3 jobs!) and that's half the battle of motivation for me, working it into my busy schedule that changes most weeks! 😃
I am doing your plankety plankathon, however, a few years I watched a video of a family doing the elbow plank, the longest was from the son who held the elbow plank for 6 minutes 30 seconds, the mother only held it for 90 seconds, the father just over 6 minutes, SO I thought, let's see if I can beat that, it was a while ago, I managed 7 minutes, at the most I would only hold a plank for 3 minutes, there are some office and family 'competitions' to see who can hold the plank, usually an elbow plank the longest.
Some years ago a 71-year-old lady, with the help of a personal sports assistant held an elbow plank for 33 minutes, a man in his 70's in Canada held the high or full plank for 61 minutes, the world record is 8 hours 1 minute by a Chinese man, that was the elbow plank.
Amazing, and well done on your achievements.... we do ours as non competitive,.. to get people involved, do some fitness and have a break from the dreaded screen
Brilliant. Going to pass this idea on to my daughter - she teaches in a SEN school and they are always meeting to discuss how they can improve health & wellbeing as a department! Her head runs (marathons, ultras, ironman etc.) and loves promoting fitness in the school so maybe it will tick a box there too! I'm a gardener - mostly for elderly people. Maybe I should take a 5 minute break with every client and do my planking on the lawn after cutting the grass 😍. I usually try to discreetly fit in a few squats on every job.
Love it! Yes you should, and I hope your daughter can get some support with that... its often just a case of getting one or more people to do it, and then it spirals as everybody wants to join in. The power of social movement...
I walk around the carpark several times a day and most days I'll head out for a cheeky thousand steps up and down the street. On my non running days I can be very sedentary if I'm not careful, last night I looked at my daily activity and it was woeful so I went out for a brisk 5k evening walk and found a new route for my benchmark run
Brilliant! I do at least 40 squats a day at work whilst waiting for the forklift to come back to take the next pallet. I'll also do a kinda plank against the pallet truck handle. I use the wheels on the pallet truck to push my foot into for a soleus stretch, I'll pace up and down inside the trailer in a figure eight, I'll also use pallets at right angles like parallel bars to hang on. My own mobile gym! 👍🏻🤣
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