Hands forward of your shoulders to crank up the plank challenge.
Keep ribs down and hips level, the further your hands reach, the harder you brace.
Walking your hands out beyond your shoulders lengthens the lever between your two support points, and your abs pay for every centimetre of that reach. The core has to resist a far stronger pull into a sagging arch than a standard plank produces, without a single limb moving. It looks like a minor tweak and holds like a different exercise.
Only as far as you can hold a rigid line for the whole set. Creep the hands out in small increments over weeks, distance earned slowly beats a dramatic reach with sagging hips.
Same idea, different names. Both describe planking with the hands ahead of the shoulders to lengthen the lever, and everything that makes one harder applies to the other.
The reach is beyond what your abs can currently resist, so your spine is sagging into an arch. Bring the hands back toward a standard plank and rebuild the distance gradually.
