Grandmother holds plank for five hours in new world record

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 9 Oct, 10:55 · Archive

A 61-year-old Canadian grandmother held an abdominal plank for five hours, breaking her own world record.

DonnaJean Wilde, a 61-year-old grandmother from Alberta in Canada, held an abdominal plank for five hours at the Huntsman World Senior Games in Utah on 4 October. The feat broke her previous world record of four hours, 30 minutes and 11 seconds. According to Guinness World Records, a successful plank requires forearms and toes to touch the ground at all times, with the remainder of the body lifted off the ground and kept straight throughout.

Wilde's plank ran from 3:03 p.m. to 8:03 p.m., with several judges rotating in shifts during the period. After completing her previous record, Wilde said her elbows hurt and her quads ached from tension about maintaining form. She described the first two hours as going quickly, with the following two hours becoming much more difficult.

New York Post reports that Wilde is a retired school teacher, mother of five and grandmother of 12. She discovered her talent for planking in 2013 after breaking her arm, when traditional cardio was unavailable. During the COVID-19 pandemic, her family encouraged her to test her endurance and she reached two hours. In 2023 she began targeted world-record training integrating push-ups, weight training, running and dead hangs. New York Post also reports that in 2024 she set the female world record for most push-ups in 60 minutes with 1,575 repetitions.

How it is being reported

• Grandmother of 12 smashes world record with five-hour abdominal plankThe retired school teacher didn’t just beat the record — she demolished her own previous world mark of four hours, 30 minutes, and 11 seconds, which she set in 2024.New York Post · 9 Oct, 10:36
• Grandmother of 12 holds plank for 5 hours in record-breaking featDonnaJean Wilde held an abdominal plank for five hours at the Huntsman World Senior Games, smashing her own Guinness world record by nearly 30 minutes.Fox News · 8 Oct, 19:27

In this story: DonnaJean Wilde · Huntsman World Senior Games · Alberta · Utah · Canada

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