Obese Man Does Planks for 5 Minutes Every Day for 30 Days (TRYING TO GET A SIX PACK BABY!!!!)
6Obese Man Does Planks for 5 Minutes Every Day for 30 Days (TRYING TO GET A SIX PACK BABY!!!!)
0:00 - Intro
2:04 - Why I am Doing this Challenge
5:16 - Doing the Challenge
6:49 - Journey Begins
8:46 - Painful Cramp
12:00 - Results and Conclusion
15:15 - Wrap Up and Plugs
Script:
Since I do many videos on exercises, such as doing sit-ups or bicep curls daily, my youtube recommendations get flooded. Every day I get pop ups for like Tik Tok gym memes or AthleanX “You should never look at a chest press” videos. During June, my recommendations list was hit with planking videos, specifically this one that talked about planking every day for 1 minute. It was interesting in that it talked about the improvements in the core. I figured hey, I have a weak core… why not give myself a challenge by extending it to five minutes. As you can tell from the video, I am a nearly 300-pound man, so this will be my greatest challenge Yet. What’s Going on Everybody! My name is Jack Jenkins. Let's roll that Intro.
[Intro]
As always, I have the video topics linked below to skip through. I also have the script pulled up on my website jack-jenkins.com. Otherwise, let's get to the video. First, I want to talk about why I wanted to do this challenge with planking every day. I have done a few ab videos before, such as doing Chloe Tings' ab routine or reviewing the Nintendo Switch game Sit-ups challenge. Watch both of those videos linked below. After I finish every ab challenge I have done, I always talk about how weak my abs are. That leads to be being in pain intense pain during the challenge and tell myself that I will finally get my core strong enough. Spoilers, I never actually do.
I am not going to lie. After each ab challenge, I actually don't continue working out my abs. I instead continue on with my life, not doing any more sit-ups. At the gym, I work out my legs, chest and back but never really touch my abs. I want to finally change this, especially after talking to my doctor. My doctor basically said in so many words, "Jack, you want to be 300 pounds? Well, then get your shit together". Funny enough I am now close to 295 so… that’s great. I also brought up to them that I get random ab cramps while I try to sit up or during a workout that isn't ab-focused. The results after two hundred years of different studies my results are that my abs are incredibly weak because I only really train them for these video challenges. Yikes, that needed to change.
So, to kick off working out my abs, I told myself I would do this challenge and finally get into the habit of working out my abs. This was in July / August, and I am recording this video in early October to hopefully be released in November. See how my timeline is all confusing? Man-making youtube videos are hard. I will talk about if I still do these ab videos at the end of my journey.
With the conversation started, I began my journey of doing this challenge. The challenge is to do a plank for five minutes almost every day for thirty days. I take the sixth day of each week off as a break from these challenges to be able to actually accomplish a few things around the house that need to get done. Cleaning man! That takes up so much time as an adult! Anyways, during the challenge, I will record myself on the first day and at the end of my string of days. This is the footage that you are watching behind me. You can see the date come up in the corner there when it comes time for a new day. At the end of this challenge, my goal was to get at least some muscle definition and feel some core muscle improvement in my abs. With these goals in mind, I began my thirty-day journey.
Of course, a challenge video is nothing without a before part. Here is me before the challenge began:
[Body Day 0]
The results will be shown at the end. Now let's get to that legendary first day. Well… that first day sucked! Every time I did these challenges, my abs cramped up and caused me to stop prematurely. It was funny enough when I was talking about trying to reduce it to three minutes because it was too hard. Roll the clip!
[Plank Day 1 2:50]
Remember to include that since some of you love watching a fat man in pain. I know I sure do. Each day got progressively better, with my core strength improving over time. While replaying the videos, I went from doing planks in 30-second intervals to being able to hold them for two minutes. While that may not sound impressive to some of you, that is an incredibly big change for me. Of course, my posture wasn't the best, and having a big old tire pull on my back made that hard. Regardless I could feel that my posture was at least getting somewhat better. Also, having the rest day in this challenge was great as it gave me a moment for my muscles to rest and grow back stronger...
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