Planking challenge: This former US marine just smashed the world record
Channel: Times Of India
Date: 2020-02-27

George Hood has proven that age is just another number. The 62-year-old has recently created a new male world record for the longest time in the abdominal plank position. Hood is a former US marine and is no stranger to holding himself in plank position for long durations. He held the position for one hour 20 minutes in 2011. Before him, the record belonged to China’s Mao Weidong who held a plank for eight hours one minute and one second. Hood was training almost seven hours every day for the past 18 months to prepare himself for his record breaking feat. This would require him to 700 pushups a day, 500 leg squats a day, 300 arm curls a day and 2,000 situps a day which was done in sets of one hundred each. Over and above this, Hood did almost 2100 hours of planking before the big event on February 15. Hood described the change his body would go through during the event. The elbows first start to burn, later the skin breaks and starts bleeding. Hood would talk to his coach and keep himself hydrated during this phase. What would follow next is numbness, but he would keep his mind strong and keep telling himself to carry on.  Hood believes his effort will help raise awareness about mental health, especially related to law enforcement personnel who deal with combat situations while dealing with other issues like marital, parenthood and financial problems. Hood ended his spectacular achievement after clocking eight hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds and celebrated his win by doing 75 pushups. But there’s no stopping Hood. He has set his target on a new goal. He plans to break the world record for most pushups completed in one hour which currently stands at 2,806. This is almost 46 push ups per minute, yes you heard that right.

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