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![I did a plank every day for 120 consecutive days and here’s what I learned: I do not like doing planks. [check box checked] I did not like doing them before I started this streak, and I do not like them now. My opinion has not changed. [drawing of person doing plank and thinking FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU]](https://cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/semi-rad-planking-1.jpg?width=730)
![I don’t remember how I got started doing one 60-second plank every day, but on December 5th, 2022, I did one. The next day, I did another one. And then I just kept going. [drawing of calendars for December, January, February, and March] Did it change my life? No, it did not.](https://cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/semi-rad-planking-2.jpg?width=730)
![Correction: It did change my life, in that I had to remember to do a goddamn plank every day. This would often happen around 10 p.m., when I’d be flossing my teeth and suddenly remember that I had neglected to do a 60-second plank that day. Probably because planks are unpleasant. [Hand-drawn bar graph comparing HOW MUCH FUN, GENERALLY: flossing vs planks vs doing things that are not flossing or doing planks]](https://cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/semi-rad-planking-3.jpg?width=730)

![I’m still doing a plank every day—with a couple of breaks in my streak since I started in December: Once during three days of a gastrointestinal illness that made doing planks a bad idea for many explosive reasons, and one day that I ran a 50K race and figured I deserved a day off. But other than that, I’ve been committed. And it’s been fine, I guess [Hand-drawn bar graph showing EXCITING REWARDS REAPED: flossing vs planks vs avoiding flossing or doing planks ]](https://cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/semi-rad-planking-5.jpg?width=730)




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