So I took the plunge and committed to 50 crunches every day for a damn month straight.īefore you crank out crunches every day, it's important to know how to do a crunch in the first place. "I don't care if you just jumped over a stick, did pushups, squatted or only did planks-the bottom line is you exercised in a certain way for 30 days straight, which is a great accomplishment." I liked his enthusiasm and belief in my commitment level. Then what was the point of doing something like this, I asked him? "Challenges have end dates so there's always a light at the end of the tunnel, which helps people following through with them," he told me. Interest in trying a 30-day challenge? Check out all the Women's Health fitness challenges.
"To be honest, there are way better exercises for your core than just plain old crunches, but that's really not the point of doing a challenge." "You can expect to see more changes mentally than physically," Ben Boudro, CSCS, owner of Xceleration Fitness in Auburn Hills, Michigan warned me. Starting with a reality check: Thirty days isn't enough time to get a six-pack-even if you do 100 crunches a day. Before you embark on your own challenge, let me share what you need to know, and all the things I learned about what you can (and can't) expect from doing crunches every day. So, prior to crunching on the daily, I reached out to fitness gurus to figure out what I might achieve by locking in my 50 a day quota. Still, I wanted to get a better idea of what I was getting myself into and level-set some expectation from the start. But 50 crunches a day-sounds like no biggie, right? I thought so too, at first. Normally, the only things I like to commit myself to are my husband, my extensive (and obsessive) skincare routine, and a well-deserved glass of cabernet (or three) after a long, hard day. I was ready to get back into an exercise regimen, though, so I was actually super psyched to take on this 30-day crunch challenge, which seemed like a simple feat and a good way to ease back into working out on the regular. But, like a lot of folks, I'd gotten out of my exercise habit-first, I was on my honeymoon, then it was the holidays.and you know, just life. For most of my life I’ve worked out fairly consistently, running outside, going to the gym, or taking workout classes at least three or four times a week.
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