My Plank-Off

I was talking to Amy on the phone and I happened to tell her about my plank-off that happened at the gym the other day. Well she found it quite amusing and insisted I blog about it, so here it is. What happened was that I attended an ab class Monday morning, and the class is 20 minutes long and you continually work your abdominals throughout those 20 minutes. Well one of the exercises we do is called the plank. If you don’t know what that is you can refer to my picture, I am doing it, and you typically hold it for as long as you can. In class we will normally hold ourselves up in plank position for fifteen seconds and then lay down and rest for five and then go back up for fifteen again. We do this until we’ve gotten through four sets and therefore done a minute. My instructor decided that day that we should try to do the plank for a minute straight. So we did, and to my utter surprise I was the only one in class that held it for the entire minute. Well one of the instructors who happened to be taking the class that day, is super competitive, her name is Staci. Well I guess Staci saw an opportunity for some friendly competition, because she then insisted that I come over to her and we would face off for a plank-off. Okay…. Well we did, and I ended up winning, once again to my utter surprise. It was really quite amusing; I think we ended up going a minute and twenty seconds. I’m actually really glad she gave in, because I was seriously ready to drop, I guess I’m more stubborn than I thought because I really don’t think I’m in that great of shape. Oh well, I love to win.