Do you ever forget to turn on your abs when you’re working out? Planks are a great way to strengthen your abs, glutes, and shoulders to improve core stability. Understanding the sensation of full tension can also help you turn hypertonic muscles off when appropriate. This sets the foundation for lifting, posture, and how you move through everyday lifestyle tasks!

How to do a hardstyle plank

1. Get into a forearm plank position with forearms parallel to each other and feet touching. Head, shoulders, hips, and knees in a line.

2. Completely tension your abs, glutes, lats, and quads.

3. Isometrically, drag elbow to feet and feet to elbows.

4. Layer on hardstyle breathe (quick sniff in, sharp hiss out).

5. If you can do more than 5-10 breaths, add additional tension. Around that point, you should flop to the floor from exhaustion.

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