The NEW Healthista 30 day plank challenge series is here! Throughout August, personal trainer and creator of the Healthista Fit Hiit app, Kelly Du Buisson, will bring you a different five minute video workout featuring different plank moves. Your abs will be screaming
Welcome to the Healthista 30 day plank challenge! For the next month personal trainer Kelly Du Buisson will take you through a five minute workout with three variations of the plank. Following the new plank workout we will be posting daily with the 30 day smoothie challenge with nutritionist Rick Hay, you will be set for a healthy August.
‘The plank challenge aims to wake up the entire core area including the rectus abdominals, the TVA, internal and external obliques and the gluteus’, says Kelly. ‘The aim is to improve posture and strength which will improve your everyday lifestyle and increase stamina and endurance in sport. If you’ve never done planks before hopefully you’ll burn calories and create some lean muscle. If you’re a plank expert this will help you find new ways to test your body.’ The best thing about the plank is you need no equipment at all and it can be done anywhere.
On the plank challenge day one, Kelly keeps it simple, starting with a pose on all fours, extending the legs out into a full plank position and back again.
A side plank on each side follows, raising the hips to the ceiling whilst leaning on the elbows.
To finish, Kelly introduces a kneeling plank, which will ease you into an eventual full plank.
Check back every day on the website or Healthista YouTube channel to get your daily planking workout, alongside hundreds of other workout videos. Tag us in your efforts on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. See you tomorrow!
Kelly recommends
I created the Healthista Fit HIIT App for people who are short on time but looking for the most effective results from their workouts. With the option to choose how long you exercise and to tailor your workout specifically to your level, there is no equipment required so you can workout wherever you are. You can progress as you improve by choosing the more advanced options so the routines should never get dull and with moves designed to work every angle of the body we not only burn calories, but create lean, strong muscles and protect the body from injury. The best bit? No two workouts are ever the same!
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