Exercise library / Core
Side 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: Obliques.
Secondary: Abs, Abductors.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norsk Sideplanke
- Svenska Sidoplankan
- Dansk Sideplanke
- Deutsch Seitstütz
- Español Plancha lateral
- Italiano Plank laterale
- Português Prancha lateral
- Русский Боковая планка
- Français Planche latérale
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