Ultimate Plank Fitness: For a Strong Core, Killer Abs - and a Killer Body

by Jen DeCurtins

A safe, challenging, and effective method of core conditioning, planking is one of the best ways to get fit and toned. Variations of planks are used across many fitness domains including traditional group exercise, personal training, home workouts, yoga, pilates, barre, CrossFit and more. Not only are planks perfect for crafting six-pack abs, they also target shoulders, pectorals, biceps, triceps, glutes, quads, and hamstrings. They increase the heart rate, offer calorie-busting cardio exercise, and create healthy muscle tone. Ultimate Plank Fitness features 100 different variations of planks that can be used to customize your workout. Easily increase the difficulty of your core strengthening exercises by adding stability balls, gliders, and weights. Each exercise includes a step-by-step photo demonstration, points of performance, where to engage, along with common faults to detect ways to improve your fitness. Finally, CrossFit coach, personal trainer, and fitness instructor, Jennifer DeCurtins provides you with ten 5-minute workouts incorporating several planks that you can use to target trouble areas and build strength. With countless variations of the exercise, ranging from traditional planks to side plank variations and planks using external weights or unstable surfaces, your entire workout can be programmed around the plank! Work your way to a healthy core with Ultimate Plank Fitness.

Genres: Health, Nonfiction, Fitness

284 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 18, 2015

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a great book!! I got this through my library, and I think that this is so wonderful that I would buy this for myself. This book has different sections for different kinds of planks. (I didn't realize how many different kinds of planks there were) Each exercise has a picture of how to do it. There is a box that tells you the difficulty level, and if there is a modification. There are some pointers on how to do the exercise and some mistakes that people make, it also tells you what muscles the exercise strengthens and what the payoff will be. This is well worth the look see.

[Naomi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Absolutely loved this book so much that I immediately purchased it. Complete with levels of performance, photos of correct performance, potential issues, this book was danged near perfect. I also loved that there were numerous methods to plank including bringing in medicine balls, stability balls, etc. Very much worth the price and I can't wait to start incorporating it into my workouts.

[Christopher · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book that showcases various planks for all skill levels.

[Jen Safrey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I often use this book for ideas to torment--er, I mean, teach--my strong flow yoga class. So many good ideas!

[Jan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I actually went through this book a few times before returning it to the library. It has excellent pictures and instructions. Since I do yoga, much of this was familiar but with a twist. I think I am going to have to buy this one.

[Mike Borchers]

Very nice book, interesting exercises. Would be nice if it could be digital, I travel a lot and would be easier to follow it was pdf format.

But all in all, nice book informative and easy to use.

Mike Borchers