Fitness experts say people should be able to hold a plank for anywhere from 20 seconds up to two minutes, depending on their ...

A 20-year-old Brisbane man fell to his death while participating in an internet craze in which people lie flat on their stomachs in unusual places.

Discover how 80-year-old Bob Schwartz defied age and expectations by holding a plank for 50 minutes, setting a world record ...

DonnaJean Wilde, a 58-year-old from Alberta, Canada, set the new Guinness World Record for holding the longest plank for a female with 4 hours, 30 minutes and 11 seconds.

Search the term "planking" on Twitter and you'll find hundreds of people doing it. Posing, stiff as boards, anywhere they can -- on top of newspaper boxes, basketball hoops and McDonald's arches.

He was “planking” (AKA playing the Lying Down Game), lying stiffly in an odd location with plans to upload the photo on Facebook. So now people are freaking out about the dangers of planking.

According to Guinness, Illinois native Hood completed an estimated 2,100 hours of planking to train for the stunt, which the athlete commissioned in order to win back his record from Chinese ...

Planking, the fad in which people take pictures of themselves lying face down and upload them to the internet, is not racist. It's just stupid. But ...

Some people can only hold it for a few seconds, some for a minute or even several minutes. But Wilde can hold her plank, it turns out, for 4 1⁄2 hours. Wilde tells USA TODAY how she got into ...

Rutgers will try to set a world record for the most number of people simultaneously planking this evening in the school's football stadium. Some 2,500 students, faculty and staff are expected to ...

Planking, the art of laying face down in strange, sometimes dangerous, places has become an internet phenomenon. The fad started in Australia and worked it's way around the world. People lay face ...

DonnaJean Wilde, a 58-year-old grandmother from Alberta, Canada, has broken the world record for the longest time in an abdominal plank position (female).