Plank, which is known as one of the best abdominal exercises , is an exercise that engages the abdominal muscles, shoulders, arms, and legs. And if it is done regularly, it can increase a person’s mental concentration .
62-year-old George Hood is a former Navy SEAL who has a passion for breaking an impossible record. Plank sports movement, before reading the rest of the article, I suggest you try this movement once according to the training video that we posted for you to get to know the difficulty of doing it.
The story is that in 2013, Mr. George Hood decides to record the Guinness record for the longest time of doing this move. He recorded an incredible time of more than 3 hours in the men’s division. In 2016, however, his record was broken with an amazing time of 8 hours and 1 minute. And finally, at the age of 62 , George is ready to break the record again in 2020.
George Hood has done a lot of training to prepare himself for the record breaking. He has done 674,000 sit-ups and more than 270,000 pushups moves in a year . And in total, he has done about 2100 hours of PLANK movement.
By registering a record of 8 hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds , he once again registered his name as “the longest time a person has done the PLANK move”.
During the 8 hours of performing the movement, George was talking to the audience of the ceremony in the same state and also heard the speeches of the special guests of the ceremony, a group of autistic patients and people with low learning ability. With this work and his attempt to set a record, George Hood intended to announce something more. That you can increase the power of mental health with exercise.
But the record holder for the longest time a woman has performed the PLANK movement is Dana Glowacka , who registered her name in the Guinness Book of Records in 2019 with a time of 4 hours, 15 minutes, and 59 seconds.
You can watch the record-breaking video of this athlete from the official Guinness World Record channel on YouTube: Here
