What would you recommend instead?
Edit: At the earlier stages it’s a strength exercise, but later, as your capacity improves, it becomes an endurance exercise. Again, the main purpose is to teach the body to resist forces that might cause you to hyperextend your lower back. Planks help prevent an anterior-posterior chain imbalance.
I don’t know if you’re kidding or not, but the point of the plank is to strengthen your abdominal muscles’ ability to resist motion and hyperextension of the back, not to generate it. But if you have any specific concerns about the exercise, I’d be happy to hear them and pass them along to my physio. Then I can come back and tell you what they said.
This is all theater by the CCP to distract from the fact that they sentenced him to a de facto death sentence.
I was the same way before, but you have to weigh the pros and cons of having proper, long, randomized, unique passwords for each site against the possibility that your database password might be compromised. I only have my password database locally, on removable drives.
So in order to access it, I have to plug in a USB drive (I have backups) which only happens for as long as I need the database, then I unplug it. I also use a keyfile, which is on separate drives, just in case. If anyone wants to access it, they’ll need both the “something I know” (password) and “something I have” (keyfile) which is pretty unlikely.
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For a long time I went with IBM, then Hitachi when they bought IBM’s HDD division. Never had a problem with them. Though there was the infamous “Deathstar” and the click of death.
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Hoping for the best with your little guy.
Well, range of motion and stretch aren’t really valid criticisms for plank IMO. It’s intended to train your core to resist extension forces and train proper neutral posture under load in your lower back. Cable crunch doesn’t do that, and in the context of lower back pain, crunches could be detrimental. With the plank, there is progressive overload, if you do more than one set and you progress the exercise. This might look like an appeal to authority, but the trainers and physiotherapists I learned from state that.
You’re free to believe it’s a shit exercise, but I have personally benefited from it, and so have my clients.