But Hood, now a two-time planking world record holder, had an inauspicious start when he got into competitive planking 22017 years ago.
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"If you want to get better at planking, you need to plank," Baron explained, adding that planking should get easier as my body adapts to the move.
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Here's a look at a few other instances of Internet stunts or pranks that were taken too far: Planking The fad of planking was an Internet photo sensation a few years ago.
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" In the Instagram caption, Kotb wrote a simple, "Haley planking!
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It was a thing, and that thing was called planking.
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Not because of her planking prowess; she's got that in spades.
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I quickly learned that it's impossible not to bleed while planking.
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But, as I learned later, it&aposs pretty common for planking to be associated with back-pain relief — Baron explained to me that planking strengthens the core, which can help support one&aposs back and spine.
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"When you're in your third trimester, you're not doing planking," she says.
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You have said you are going to retire from setting planking records.
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I worked out (planking) inside the house, while my kids played around me.
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"I had a 30 hour [planking] goal to make each week," he said.
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The Plankpad on Kickstarter, however, is trying to make the planking experience more fun.
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This training cycle, by stretching and planking more than ever, I stayed reasonably healthy.
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According to public health officials, following these measures is critical to planking the curve.
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There's also an office, laundry room, finished basement and suspended stairwell with custom cypress planking.
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Let's see, we've had planking, owling and Tebowing, so this doesn't feel that far off.
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The app also features a workout section to add some more motion to your planking.
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Insurance records said the ship had white oak framing and planking of northern yellow pine.
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Hood, for example, often struggled with thoughts of quitting as the pain from planking intensified.
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Do you have advice for people who want to add planking to their exercise regimen?
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The hardest part of the challenge wasn&apost actually planking but remembering to do so.
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Past trends have included planking, extreme phone pinching, the Harlem Shake, and the ALS ice bucket challenge.
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By week three, planking wasn&apost really getting easier — even with my fresh mindset and special modifications
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I wasn&apost technically planking for five minutes straight, but it was close enough in my book.
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After breaking the world planking record, Hood says he treated himself to pizza at a local pizzeria.
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As of this writing, my abs are back to normal, which means I'll planking again soon. Great!
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Try this machine that uses gentle vibrations to help you burn calories while you're lunging, squatting, or planking.
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And then starting in the second trimester, once your belly starts getting bigger, I would also stop planking.
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And he didn't seem to care that "30 more seconds" feels like an eternity when you're side-planking.
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Plank exercises Planking has its benefits, especially when it comes to working your core and your upper arms.
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The planking and dancing are no joke, and I'm happy when Hough slows things down for a breathing exercise.
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You then do reps — that could mean squats, a warrior pose, or planking — which will inflict damage on your enemies.
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People all over the Internet were lying facedown (#planking), hanging upside down (#batting), and perching and staring into space (#owling).
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I lay the yoga mat on my hall floor and spend a few minutes on it, stretching, lifting, and planking.
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With floors and angular partitions also built from white planking, it resembles a rustic fantasy for a fancy wedding reception.
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Hill: That&aposs just basically a series of planking positions that they will hold for no longer than 30 seconds.
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This week Johnson told the justice about the planned planking ceremony to celebrate her birthday, which drew a rare chuckle.
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Men appear to be practicing footwork and angles, and even doing a form on planking on the back of a horse.
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I even planked while listening to podcasts in the hopes that I could distract myself into planking for longer than usual.
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Works like the neon Landscape II, which reads, "planking or the lying down game," considers how fantasy relates to the prison landscape.
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Hoda Kotb proved just that when she shared a hilarious photo of her 4-month-old daughter Haley Joy planking on Instagram.
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Even three weeks in, the planking, the jump ropes, and the standard sit-ups all still brought a jarring amount of shame.
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I dropped my knees to the ground about four times per session and was still only planking for around three minutes, total.
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George Hood says he's still in "excruciating" pain after breaking the Guinness World Record for planking over eight hours on Feb. 2252.
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Despite the physical pain of planking for eight hours, Hood says the hardest part of conquering the feat is the mental challenge.
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He was interested in the new meme of "Trayvoning," which is like planking but done by what he describes as really horrible people.
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Whether you're a seasoned fitness fan or are just starting on basic workouts, one common frustration is how damn long planking can feel.
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You can keep up with Lava's continuing adventures on Facebook, and while you're there, probably wish her owner better luck planking next time.
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In others, Liao lays across Moro's back, almost pointlessly, like planking, T-bowing, or other internet memes, wearing him like a disposable garment.
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After centuries of wear and generations of aquatic colonizers, masts and planking can disintegrate into mounds of debris and layers of seabed ooze.
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I learned the importance of routine to making new habits stickI don&apost find planking particularly hard — not just for a minute anyway.
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But not all planks are created equal, and you can target different muscles by taking slight variations like side planking and incline planks.
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Picture some version of planking, or Gangnam Style, or the Harlem Shake â€" but set to the 543 hip-hop hit "My Boo.
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Start shifting your focus from ab curls and roll-ups to planking and ab work done in tabletop position, which will work your TVA.
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The current state of the SCOTUS has many begging Ruth Bader Ginsburg to "just keep planking" — the Supreme Court justice's preferred exercise of choice.
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You'll start by planking at an incline (try leaning against a wall, chair, or the back of your couch), which is easier for beginners.
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Instead of bailing and taking a face full of concrete, this guy improvised and became a perfect, planking glider until slowing down enough to collapse.
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But Ai's version of the Kurdi photo resembles an exceptionally distasteful iteration of the planking meme, directing more attention to himself than to the crisis.
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Planking, butt chugging, the knockout challenge, Slender Man — they've all caused panic to well up out of teens taking things too far for mainstream America.
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Imagine a physical comedy meme like planking, or "Gagnam Style," or "The Harlem Shake" — but with a booster shot of mid-'22s hip-hop swagger.
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"It's a very simple idea that captured people's hearts," Sam Weckert, a man credited with starting the planking trend, told The Wall Street Journal in 2011.
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We've seen planking, the Harlem Shake, and the Ice Bucket Challenge over the years, but 2016's meme appears to be emerging as the Mannequin Challenge.
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I was prepared to surprise myself with an amazing ability to hold a plank — maybe I&aposd even learn to like planking and find it meditative!
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In terms of my fitness or performance in the gym, I&aposd be lying if I said I noticed a difference after a month of planking.
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That didn't stop Cochingo from doing it—spinning through the air like Sheik, slinking along the floor like Bayonetta, and planking like the soulless corpse of Luigi.
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There was never a day when I felt like planking was becoming easier, and every second of every plank was just as hellish as the day before.
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While attending the Shad Planking, the state's most iconic political event and itself a vestige of the Byrd era, he gladly accepted a Confederate flag lapel sticker.
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But when you consider some of the other Instagram trends of recent years — from "hot dog legs" to planking — this actually doesn't seem all that destructive or annoying.
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And then I do focus a lot on my core, so I do a lot of core training with med balls, physioballs; a lot of planking for stabilization.
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"Of course in pointing to the game, planking—this idea of play...the choice for someone to lay down as a game," comes to mind, according to the artist.
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David LaChapelle for GHD It wasn't just about planking; Katy Perry's recent stint as a mermaid had to do with her latest series of ads for haircare line ghd.
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Planking is a core strength exercise in which the body is kept in a straight line from head to feet, with its weight borne on the forearms and toes.
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"I'm not vegan, so there, but I do eat healthy," Hood joked, referring to his friend and female Guinness world record holder for planking, Dana Glowacka, who is vegan.
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Dr Ingo guesses that, after the vessel sank, the statue remained resting for many years on the planking where it had been stowed, accumulating sea squirts as it did so.
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On a recent afternoon, the Australian-born Mr. Ham looked out on the workers in hard hats affixing pine planking to cover the Tyvek plastic wrap still visible on the stern.
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But in the past three years, he has switched to a more modern style: a transitional modern farmhouse look with white or gray wood planking, black windows, gables and metal roofs.
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I had hoped that the experience would teach me that I was stronger than I thought, but I think I just got used to planking or, as Baron explained, my body adapted.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - With barely a flicker of concern, Chinese policeman Mao Weidong celebrated with push-ups after setting a new Guinness World Record for planking for eight hours, one minute and one second.
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Hood told Men's Health he prepared for the event with over 2,100 hours of planking and pushed himself through on the day by listening to rock bands such as Van Halen and Rammstein.
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Even if your core strength is off the chart, as I assume Tony Stark's is (you're basically planking the whole time, right?), putting jets on your hands and feet is just asking for broken bones.
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Planking, the ice-bucket challenge, and, most recently, the Mannequin Challenge: None of these things could've trended way back when, when the iPhone had yet to be invented and the internet was a simpler place.
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As planking and Tebowing showed, "kids these days and their digital dares!" is an established traffic machine for click-based media companies; adding an element of peril only increases the rueful headshaking over Gen-Z shenanigans.
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Either way, I'd say you should expect the hip young kids to pick this one up like the rest of those fads: water bottle flips, and planking, and taking a knee during national anthems* and the whatnot.
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A new trailer for RBG, the doc about the life and accomplishments of forever-planking workout queen, Supreme Court justice, and master of dissent Ruth Bader Ginsburg has dropped, and honestly, all other movies can just go home.
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Hood said this will likely be his last time breaking the world record for planking, but his next goal is to set the Guinness World Record for most pushups completed in one hour, which currently stands at 2,806.
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CreditCreditExpedition and Education Foundation/Black Sea MAP The medieval ship lay more than a half-mile down at the bottom of the Black Sea, its masts, timbers and planking undisturbed in the darkness for seven or eight centuries.
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We see Justice Ginsburg planking with her personal trainer, riding an elephant with her late friend and jurisprudential nemesis Antonin Scalia, moved to tears at the opera, and erupting in stitches when seeing herself parodied on "Saturday Night Live".
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On Tuesday's episode of The Doctors, Rachel Lindsay and Bryan Abasolo stop by the show to demonstrate their partnered workout routine, which includes a planking exercise that sees the pair alternate clapping hands with each other while in the position.
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By 8:30, we had completed first-period science and had shifted to second-period PE. There I was, lying on the floor watching the assigned exercise video, planking for 40 seconds, as my uber-flexible son planked next to me and giggled.
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Hood had only a half-cup of oatmeal, one egg and lots of water four hours before the event so that he didn't need to use the bathroom while planking, and during training, Hood's diet was also a balance of carbohydrates and proteins.
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He could have stopped planking at any time after the 8 hour and 1 minute mark, but Hood said he pushed toward 8 hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds to get the "515" numbers in there and dedicate it to the gym.
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There are photos of me making grotesque "funny" faces while sitting on the subway with friends, photos of me with bread rolls stuffed into my mouth, photos of me planking on my car in the middle of my school parking lot while wearing camo shorts.
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Many people make the mistake of sinking into their shoulders when planking, so if you want to make sure your plank technique is on point, Kate Maxey, a strength and conditioning master trainer at Third Space London, told Insider what to bear in mind.
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Eventually, though, the planking rotted and gave way, precipitating the satyr deep into a part of the vessel's hold where there was a lot of corroding iron and little circulation of water—a combination of circumstances which killed the sea squirts and led to the brown patina.
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If Covid-19 cases continue to increase exponentially in the U.S., the prime minister will be left to grapple with how to balance the necessary trade of food and medical supplies that flows over the shared border with the goal of "planking" the coronavirus curve within Canada.
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Sven is onstage for about 40 minutes of the show, and the role is physically taxing — the performer inside is on all fours, essentially planking for up to seven minutes at a time, with 11-inch stilts attached to his hands, and five-inch metal shanks attached to his feet.
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"Landscape II" is a neon sign that reads "Planking or the lying down game," which refers to the internet phenomenon of posting photos of yourself lying prone in an unusual spot (potentially as a form of civil disobedience) and is reminiscent of Glenn Ligon's and Bruce Nauman's neon word sculptures.
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While I always (literally non-stop) feel bad about not planking—when I'm in line for coffee, sitting quietly in my bedroom, selecting a husband on the subway—I've never mustered up the energy to feel bad about not-Kegeling … until last week, when I came across a device that touts the extreme benefits of working out your genitalia.
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See, rather than extolling soon-to-be-visible results or reciting blank maxims, what I came to love most about these yoga videos is how each one taught me to truly relish movement for movement's sake — for example, to try to feel every tiny curl of the spine when I was cat-cow-ing or to embrace the inevitable quiver that comes from planking longer than 10 seconds.
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The script, which is so much planking from one high point to another, has Stallone and Turner as park rangers in Colorado (the beautiful exterior footage is actually the Italian Dolomites) racing after $100 million in loot that has been stolen from the federal treasury and…oh, really, it's scarcely worth it to explain, except to note that the money falls into the mountains after a spectacular airborne heist (masterminded by Lithgow) goes wrong.
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The picture wasn't an embarrassing paparazzi shot, though; it was part of the #FallingStars challenge, a meme that seems to have originated in Russia and has since taken off in China and the US. It's kind of like planking, in the sense that the challenge requires participants to lie down on the floor, often with their belongings — shopping bags, wads of cash, balloon-animal versions of Karl Lagerfeld; you know, normal stuff — splayed around them.
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