This 30 day plank fat burning challenge will kickstart your weight loss efforts tenfold while only taking a couple of minutes a day. This quick, but so effective workout is a great addition to your 30-day weight loss challenge.

30 Day Plank Challenge for Beginners or Intermediate

If you are just starting your weight loss journey and you already know what a plank is congratulations, you are more knowledgeable than I was when I started!
As I have said before, until I began this journey a few years ago, I was not familiar with working out or the different exercises.
Planks were introduced to me through my first Beachbody workout, P90X. I quickly realized how many muscle groups a plank workout uses.

Planks are extremely versatile. By using a variety of plank exercises, planks can be utilized to fit the needs of strengthening beginners or challenging the fittest athletes. This plank challenge is great with my 30-day weight loss challenge specifically designed to help with losing weight after 40.
Using a 30-day plank fat burning challenge, you are able to strengthen core muscles, which includes some extremely important back muscles for our over 40 bodies.
As women over 40, quite often our core has weakened over time. We realize this from our stomachs getting larger as well as flabby. You can prevent everyday injuries by including this plank challenge for a couple of minutes every day.
Back injuries are common while working around the house if we don’t strengthen core muscles. I learned a few years ago how important having a strong core was for my back. Without boring you too much on the specifics of core muscles, just know there are a lot of important muscles around your spine that are strengthened with plank exercises like these.
That’s where the 30-day plank fat burning challenge comes in. A single exercise that literally will only take a couple of minutes a day, can improve your core muscles, reduce injury, increase metabolism and burn fat.

How to Do a Plank

In order for the 30-day plank challenge to be effective, it is important to make sure you have the proper plank position.
The picture below illustrates the basic plank with proper form. It is important to keep the form as shown to prevent injury and maximize effectiveness.
If you aren’t able to do a full plank yet, you may put your knees down and/or your elbows down, keeping the basic principles of elbows under shoulders, core tightened, hips level, head/neck neutral.
Day 1:  15 seconds
Day 2:  15 seconds
Day 3:  15 seconds
Day 4:  20 seconds
Day 5:  20 seconds
Day 6:  25 seconds
Day 7:  25 seconds
Day 8:  25 seconds
Day 9:  30 seconds
Day 10: 30 seconds
Day 11: 30 seconds
Day 12: 35 seconds
Day 13: 35 seconds
Day 14: 35 seconds
Day 15: 40 seconds
Day 16: 40 seconds
Day 17: 45 seconds
Day 18: 45 seconds
Day 19: 50 seconds
Day 20: 50 seconds
Day 21: 55 seconds
Day 22: 55 seconds
Day 23: 55 seconds
Day 24: 60 seconds
Day 25: 60 seconds
Day 26: 60 seconds
Day 27: 65 seconds
Day 28: 65 seconds
Day 29: 70 seconds
Day 30: As long as you can!
This 30-day plank challenge will jumpstart your fitness. You will be stronger with a higher metabolism after 30 days of plank exercises.
Your overall fitness level will improve greater with additional workouts.