Lucas Helmke.Photo: GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS
A father in Brisbane, Australia, has beaten the world record for the most push-ups in one hour.
PEOPLE has reached out to the Guinness Book of World Records and Iron Underground gym for comment.
Aiming to show his son that “nothing is impossible,” Helmke, who trained for two to three years for this moment, said he wanted to beat the previous record to “provide inspiration” for his 1-year-old.
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Lucas Helmke.GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS
His goal in this successful record attempt was to break the exercise down to 30-second sets, performing 26 push-ups in each.
Guinness stated that 34 of Helmke’s push-ups didn’t qualify due to improper form. To count, each execution had to be completed without bending the knees or waist, with arms lowered until a 90 degree-angle was met at the elbow and while pushing back up to a full arms straightening for each.
Prior to Helmke and Scali, who also beat the record in 2021for the world’s longest plank, another Australian man named Jarrad Young held the title, breaking his own record three years in a row: from 2,806 push-ups in 2018 to 3,054 in 2021.
Helmke told Guinness that his accomplishment is just the beginning.
“This will be the first record I wish to set of a number of other push-up records,” he said. “Then onto other physical records.”
According to theBrisbane Times, the dad chose Nov. 11 for his record attempt.
“I wanted to break the record on my son’s first birthday,” he said.
source: people.com
