Workouts, Food, Home, Work: Simplified | Most People Plank Wrong. Do You?

Actionable Steps to Simplify Your Home, Food, Work, and More

Stressed, anxious, overcommitted—the unholy trinity that undermines mental health and wellbeing for so many people today. I’d argue that chronic stress is the number one threat to health and happiness. Yes, even more detrimental than modern diets, being too sedentary, overexercising when we do exercise, and all the other ways we mismanage our genes nowadays.

Paradoxically, simplifying life and making it easier almost always involves some investment of time and/or money up front. Don’t let this deter you. This is a short-term investment for long-term payoff, which you deserve.

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Are You Getting the Most Out of Your Planks? (Probably Not)

The plank feels like the simplest movement. Heck, it’s not even a movement, really: it’s holding a still position without movement. It expressly forbids movement. And yet it’s the simple exercises where things can really go wrong.

The plank is simple but not easy. When you’re in the plank position, every fiber of your being is resisting the pull of gravity. You must engage and tighten every inch of musculature in your body to resist collapse. To maintain coherence throughout the line your body forms. During a plank, you are quite literally holding the line against the most omnipresent force in the known universe.

At least in a push-up, you’re moving. You have something else to focus on. For a plank, a lot of the difficulty is mental. You’re just there in the same position, getting more and more tired with each passing moment. You have to sit with the pain.

Okay, so what’s the basic plank form?

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Soft, Springy, Gluten-free Chocolate Cake

For years, I’ve been experimenting with gluten-free chocolate cake recipe after recipe, and most of the time, they turned out … okay. I’d add a little of this, hold back on that, take the the best of the crumbly one with good flavor, merge it with the tender one that isn’t chocolatey enough. Add a melted chocolate bar or stick with cocoa powder? Dairy or no dairy? Extra egg to make it fluffy, or less egg for a richer, denser bite?

Well, today is a good day. After trying every trick, hack, and ingredient combination under the sun, I think I found the gluten-free chocolate cake recipe of my dreams (and yours, too).

What did it? This gluten-free chocolate cake has a secret ingredient that I’m going to start adding to a lot more of my flourless desserts.

Do you want to know what the secret ingredient is? You probably have it in your pantry right now.

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Only a Few Chilly Mornings Left to Whip and Sip! (Plus, FREE Chocolate)

Most of us are ready for sunshine, but take advantage of the crisp mornings while you can! Whip up a fluffy hot cocoa while it's still mug season.

Place almond milk in a saucepan over medium-low heat. Bring to a slight simmer for 2 minutes, then remove from heat. Meanwhile, pour cold heavy cream into a bowl. Add Collagen Fuel and cocoa powder to the cream. Whip, starting on low speed, for 6–7 minutes, or until cream resembles stiff peaks. Pour half of the warmed almond milk into one mug, and half into another. Add a few dollops of the whipped cocoa cream on top of each mug. Add 6 mini marshmallows and about 1 Tbsp. cacao nibs on top of each mug.

This week, get a FREE 12-count box of Primal Kitchen® Chocolate COLLAGEN FUEL® Drink Mix Packets when you buy a box. Enter the code CHOCOLATECOLLAGEN at checkout.

*To redeem, visit PrimalKitchen.com and add TWO boxes of Chocolate Collagen Fuel Drink Mix Packets to your cart, and enter coupon code CHOCOLATECOLLAGEN at checkout. Offer expires 4/12/2021 at midnight PT. Cannot be combined with any other offers.

Make Your Story Your Power, with Charlene Gisele

Today we had a lovely, upbeat, and productive conversation with Charlene Gisele, a former attorney turned health coach, who also shared her health coaching success story with us in a post from last month. After becoming overwhelmed with the fast-paced, big city, corporate lawyer living in London, Charlene made the internal pivot to slow down, be present, and help other hurried, high-performing, highly productive professionals try to do the same thing. Charlene shares her journey to becoming a health coach and walks us through what her practice looks like today. During this episode, we discuss her spiritual journey that followed her corporate world stint and preceded her health coaching career, making her story her power, being open to receiving relationships, and so much more. This boots-on-the-ground health coaching content is our absolute favorite stuff to talk about so let’s dive right in!

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