Weekly Health Talk with Dr. P: Plank


This week's episode of "Weekly Health Talk with Dr. P" features a popular exercise that is commonly done wrong. Learn how to stretch your body and strengthen your core correctly!
Stretch of the week: Plank
Holding your body in plank position for 15 seconds 4 times a day will help improve your posture, and strengthen your core.


Alright, Dr. P here again with Diana. We're going to demonstrate core exercises. These are key things; you need to be doing everyday. And my goal is to give you a 2- and 5-minute routine that you'll do. The plank, it's in all the workout routines if you don't see this you know you've bought the wrong routine. Planks are great for the core, I've yet to see anybody do it right. Trainers, yep I've yet to see anybody do it ideal. Let me see if I can give you that. So, we're going to do high plank which means she's in the push-up position. So, assume high plank and boom. Just hold it, okay. You start thinking about your shoulders and you're shaking and all that, but actually, you should put your mind right here... in your tail squeeze your butt squeeze your thighs nobody does that and that's what it's all about that. That activates this region right here. If you go floppy tail or floppy thighs, you're just working your shoulders to death. She needs to rise up a little bit here and hold. That's high planks. Squeeze glutes, squeeze thighs. That’s number one thing you need to remember cause we’re gonna put it in all the other things. We're going to show you low plank, drop down to low plank. Okay BAM. Same thing, low plank...a little bit harder, tends to be more in training method the high plank is fine. Again, hold how to do 30 seconds 15 4 sets of 15 whatever you can do. Relax. Thank you. 

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