Exercise library / Core
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: Abs.
Secondary: Obliques, Front delts, Glutes.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norwegian Planke
- Swedish Plankan
- Danish Planke
- German Unterarmstütz
- Spanish Plancha
- Italian Plank
- Portuguese Prancha
- Russian Планка
- French Planche
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