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A minute is the plank most people are working towards and the one they think they have already done. Counting is its own work while you are holding a position, and a clock measures every hold on the same basis, so what goes into the log is comparable from one week to the next.
That is the whole case for putting it on a screen. Not motivation: measurement. If the number in your log came from your head, the progress in your log is partly imaginary.
The tip is about how to add time, because there are two ways to do it and the timer treats them differently. Adding seconds means retyping the hold every week. Adding a round leaves the hold where it is: set forty-five seconds of work and a minute of rest in the interval timer, and the session grows or shrinks by rounds while every hold stays the same length.
Put the screen on the floor in front of you and press F for fullscreen; from a plank position, at arm's length, only the large readout is actually legible.
Long enough to hold the position properly and no longer, which is a different number for everyone and a different number on different days. The moment the back starts to sag is the one worth recording.
The interval timer handles that: set the work, the rest and the number of rounds, and it walks through them without you touching the screen.
Press the space bar. On a phone, start it before you get down: the countdown runs from the clock, so the few seconds of setup are yours to control.