As I have a parkrun on Saturday and a Regents Park 10k on Sunday, I have decided to obey the physio and not run before my appointment on Friday.
So I have instead turned my attentions to core stability, which I gather is the secret to injury-free running well into my nineties.
As I know nothing at all about core stability, I headed off to the internet to find some likely looking exercises, and armed with “the only eight core workout exercises you’ll ever need”, I dug out my yoga mat.
- Exercise 1: The Plank. Tick
- Exercise 2: The Side Plank. Tick and Tick
- Exercise 3: V-Sit Abdominal. Hmmm. I appear to be missing some muscles.
- Exercise 4: The Bicycle Crunch. Oooooooow!
- Exercise 5: The Hip Bridge. Yay! One I can do!
- Exercise 6: The Single Leg Bridge. Tick and Tick.
- Exercise 7: The Push Up Lat Row. You’re having a laugh. Let me count the flaws with this exercise. One – I have no dumbbells. Two – I can’t do a push up. Three – If I could do a push up, I doubt I’d manage to do one while holding a dumbbell. Four – Assuming I managed a push up while supported on dumbbells, do you really expect me to then lift one arm off the ground? Get real!
- Exercise 8: The Skip with Twist. Not really suitable for my front room.
Oh well. Six out of eight isn’t bad, but just to show willing, I’ve also started a programme to build me up to 100 push ups. I’m starting off on the remedial programme with 12 weedy knee push ups. Will I graduate to full push ups? Only time will tell!
abradypus 
Hard-core! Lol.
Looking forward to seeing everyone on Sunday.
good luck with the press ups they are a killer tricep ones are even worse. Might try this routine myself
The push up lat row sounds like a method of torture…and a little bit dangerous – sounds like you could fall on your face quite easily!
I never mastered the whole push-up things, i could barely scrape double figures! I can highly recommend sit-ups as considerably easier and arguably more effective for runners though 🙂
If you want to try number seven I would recommend the hexagonal type dumb bells.
Hope you have recovered from all that activity!
Double clap push ups are a sure way to a nosebleed first time but get more achievable with practice – I’m sure most of these are the same. Shame I’ve no idea what the rest seem to be at all! Time to start looking, I guess.
Good luck with the physio and the races.
Oh well done you, I’m not sure I could have managed all that today.
Sounds like torture!
sounds really hard! good luck..
you have inspired me, as I have a very week core, and definitely want to have injury-free running until I am 90! 🙂 see you Sunday x
Fab post, made me giggle 🙂
Go you! I’ve just started ‘planking’ and it kills me. I also started the press-up challenge, but its already gone by the way side (for about the 7th time!)
When’s your DVD hitting the shops?
Did you know that hard belly laughs are one of the best abdominal exercises you can do? Cramping of the core while trying to take a breath is proof! Try it with me now, as I read your post: HA HA HA HA HA… ow ow ow 🙂
Ooooooow!
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