Gunnar Peterson

There's so much you can do with bodyweight alone. The basics always come up for a reason: sit-ups, planks, push-ups. They'll always give you results. The way to take it up a notch is to compound the basics to work multiple muscle groups at once.

American Businessman

David Hallberg

Because of the way I'm built, I constantly have to strengthen. This is sort of a ritual: I put on my tights first, and right when I'm about to put on my costume, I get down on the floor, and I plank.

American Dancer

Shaun White

When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.

American Athlete

David Kirsch

One of the easiest things to incorporate into your everyday life is plank exercises: great for your core, great for your lower back.

American Scientist

Israel Folau

I do a lot of core strengthening exercises and the plank push up is a great one that you can do anywhere and anytime.

Australian Athlete

Edward Young

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

English Poet

Heather Mac Donald

A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are 'socially constructed.

American Editor

Nina Agdal

I think planks and crunches are an old-school simple move, but it's the way to go.

Danish Model

Julianne Hough

My go-to prebikini flat-ab move is the plank, all different types.

American Musician

Princess Diana

British Royalty

When 'plank' refers to timber, we're often talking about specific materials for construction or crafts.

Material Specificity

'Plank' implies a thickness greater than that of a board, suggesting a more heavy-duty use.

Thickness Distinction

As a platform plank, 'plank' can metaphorically represent a stage for presenting ideas.

Figurative Platform

Use 'plank' to identify key points within debates, policies, or arguments.

Debate Context

As a verb, 'plank' describes the action of laying down planks to create something like a floor.

Application Verb

'Plank' can convey a sudden, heavy-handed action, used colloquially to express this force.

Forceful Action

Using 'plank' this way adds emphasis to the action, making it sound more dramatic.

Colloquial Emphasis

In modern fitness, 'plank' is not woodworking but a challenging body exercise.

Workout Term

The exercise 'plank' is all about maintaining a stable pose to engage multiple muscles.

Stability Focus

 know that nobody can diminish what they've thought and said, that we've honored their words, honored their thoughts with hundreds of hours of five drafts, six drafts -- all this attention that we give to their thoughts. And once they achieve that level, once they've written at that level, they can never go back. It's absolutely transformative. And so then they're all sold in the store. This is near the planks.

Dave Eggers: 2008 TED...

 little poem that i wrote that kind of sums it up oh that is so cool yeah it's great of marauding men at the many books have told the tale but of all the pirates and all the world the most fearsome were female i've asked me hearties it's time to walk the plank with the biggest baddest pirate of all time who just happens to be a girl

Queens of the High Seas...

 cut in Cambodia none of this is coming from National Park or protector yes sure all of this is half our legal document I haven't up to men if you want to see over solely the documents we look at confirm the planks of Rosewood as we suspected predictably they all bear

Bloodwood: Rosewood...

 So let's take one problem that families face, crazy mornings, and talk about how agile can help. A key plank is accountability, so teams use information radiators, these large boards in which everybody is accountable. So the Starrs, in adapting this to their home,

Bruce Feiler: Agile...

 so they can't collaborate in advance. And being blood-thirsty pirates, if anyone thinks they'll end up with the same amount of gold either way, they'll vote to make the captain walk the plank just for fun. Finally, each pirate is excellent at logical deduction

Can you solve the pirate...

 The controls work wonderfully. So that's my new life; it's all about fun. I really have the feeling that pleasant things work better, and that never made any sense to me until I finally figured out -- look I'm going to put a plank on the ground.

The three ways that good...

 enslaving themselves to a lifetime's journey with their thankless children and trying to breed identity out of misery, I realized that day that my research had built me a plank and that I was ready to join them on their ship. Thank you.

Love, no matter what PIPE...

 But when a British destroyer came to collect the prisoners, they found an unexpected survivor - a black and white cat clinging to a floating plank. For the next several months this cat hunted rats and raised British morale -

The history of the world...

 to build a pagan church can you help us and we say well yes we can we're producing wood now of vision boards and planks we have the trees in the woods and we can cut them down the forests are

Iceland Is Growing New...

 she walks around she hears sounds she feels virtual touch but in her version of the world there's a chasm it's ten meters deep and we put a very rickety plank over it her task is to tiptoe