# New Month's Resolutions **URL:** https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-months-resolutions/11321 **Category:** Akrasia **Created:** [December 28, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-months-resolutions/11321 "2023-12-28T16:11:58Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 11
### Author: ![shanaqui](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/shanaqui/32/3513_2.png) [@shanaqui](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/shanaqui) #### Post date: [January 1, 2024, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-months-resolutions/11321/11 "2024-01-01T14:34:51Z")
With an excess of zeal, I started my January plank goal already a couple of days ago, so I already have a bit of a feel for whether this is going to work. I’m starting from quite humble beginnings as I’ve lost a lot of fitness/strength of late (partly due to being unable to walk for a while after my operation, and then because I couldn’t get back into my routines). I’m trying to use the comments on each datapoint to write down how it went. So far, I’ve established that I can hold the very easiest plank (on forearms + knees) for at least a minute, which was suggested as a good time to move up the difficulty. So now I’m doing forearms + toes, and I can’t hold that for a minute yet. Technically my goal only requires one plank, and doesn’t specify the length, but I dropped down onto my knees and went for a little bit longer like that. Nice side effect: I was feeling a bit restless, which my body was interpreting as anxiety, but settling in to get my plank done burned off some of that and settled me down. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-months-resolutions/11321)._