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Copenhagen plank
Core · Bodyweight
Sets, reps and RIR
Sets3 to 5
Reps6 to 15
RIR1 to 2
Load is fixed, so progress by adding reps first, then by slowing the lowering phase, then by adding weight.
RIR means reps in reserve: how many you could still have done when you racked it. RIR 2 is two short of failure.
Muscles worked
Primary: Adductors, Obliques.
Secondary: Abs.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norwegian Copenhagen-planke
- Swedish Copenhagen-planka
- Danish Copenhagen-planke
- German Copenhagen Plank
- Spanish Plancha Copenhague
- Italian Plank di Copenaghen
- Portuguese Prancha de Copenhague
- Russian Копенгагенская планка
- French Planche de Copenhague
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