Fitness World Records

Stefan Popovic sat sideways on the seat of a rear delt fly machine at a gym in Calgary, Canada, and completed two one-armed flies with the pin in the bottom plate of the 300-pound weight stack. His phone, set on the floor in front of the machine, first shows the pin placement, then his right arm sweeping the handle out until it is level with his shoulder as the full stack rises off its rest. RecordSetter checked the pin and watched the stack lift on both reps in the continuous clip. Popovic, who has also logged one-handed rear delt flies facing the machine, turned sideways for this one and still moved the whole stack.

Jeremiah Gould set a single push-up bar on his lawn in Gray Court, South Carolina, and did 78 one-armed push-ups in 30 seconds at age 47. The phone video is one continuous take, from setting his grip on the bar to standing back up, and we counted the reps from that footage, timing 30 seconds from the first rep. That beats the 71 he set on this record in 2025, so at 47 he is faster than he was at 46.

Mark Farhat pressed 858 pounds for eight reps on a plate-loaded 45-degree leg press at a Planet Fitness in Las Vegas, Nevada, at age 70. The set was filmed from the front corner of the machine in one continuous 25-second take: he lowers the loaded sled with his hands on the seat handles and drives it back to nearly straight legs on every rep. RecordSetter counted the reps from the video; the 858 pounds is his stated total for the plates and sled, consistent with the stacks on camera, and his date of birth was confirmed privately. That is 40 pounds more than his 818-pound set from two weeks earlier.

Stanley Tomajko, 61, deadlifted 505 pounds, more than two and a half times his 192-pound (87-kilogram) bodyweight, for two full reps in his barn gym in Strasburg, Virginia, holding the bar with a double-underhand hook grip, both palms facing forward. A pair of large spoked wheels on the barbell sets it about 13 inches off the floor, the classic wagon wheel deadlift height from strongman, with three 45-pound plates and one 50-pound plate stacked outside each wheel. The continuous video shows both pulls to a full standing lockout with the wheels resting on the floor between reps, and Stanley itemized the load (plates, wheels, a 44-pound bar and collars) to the 505-pound total. Surrounded by anvils, ropes and antique iron, it is old-school strength in every sense.

Jose Manuel Martin Molina lies on an outdoor exercise bench in Ayamonte, Spain, grips the handle behind his head and swings his body straight up onto his shoulders, silhouetted against a low sun. He lowers his straight body slowly toward the bench, pulls back up to the top and repeats nine times before he tucks and sits up. RecordSetter timed every descent frame by frame in the single continuous take, from the top of each rep to the bottom, and they average about 10 seconds. It looks calm against the sky, which is exactly what makes it hard.

Stefan Popovic loaded 354 pounds of plates onto a seated tricep press machine at a gym in Calgary, Canada, and pressed it for five full reps. The handheld video circles the machine during the set, showing the stacked plates as he drives the handles from bent elbows down to straight arms, with a short pause before the last rep. RecordSetter counted all five lockouts in the continuous clip. Not bad for a lifter who says he weighs under 185 pounds.

Jeremiah Gould gripped a single push-up bar on the grass in Gray Court, South Carolina, spread his feet wide and fired off 141 one-armed push-ups in one minute at age 46. The video is one continuous take, from setting his grip to dropping to his knees at the end, and we timed the minute and counted every rep from that footage. That is more than double the 61 push-ups that had held this record since 2014, at a pace of better than two reps a second.

At 50, Matthew Lawson loaded five 20 kg plates onto each side of a plate-loaded Viking press at a gym in Bathurst, Australia, 200 kilograms in all, and pressed it overhead with both arms. A Viking press is a standing shoulder-press machine worked through lever arms with handles at head height; the video shows him drive both handles from his shoulders to a full lockout and hold it there, then walks the camera along both loaded sleeves so every 20 kg plate is counted on screen. His aim is to show that age does not define what you can lift.

Jose Manuel Martin Molina did 60 consecutive decline push-ups with his fingers locked together in his living room in Ayamonte, Spain. With his feet up on a sofa seat he measured at 43 cm (about 17 inches) and his clasped hands on the floor, he lowers his chest to his hands and presses back to straight arms on every rep, resting on straight arms between sets. The video is one continuous take from setup until he finally sinks to the floor, and our own count matches his 60, all done in about a minute and a half.

Stefan Popovic completed nine one-handed rear delt flies on a selectorized gym machine in Calgary, Canada, at 310 pounds: the pin in the bottom plate of the 300-pound weight stack plus the machine's two 5-pound add-on weights. Seated facing the machine with his left hand braced in front, he swept his right arm out to the side and back for each rep, lifting the full stack and both add-ons off their rest nine times in one set. Review of the uploaded video counted every lift, three more than his earlier mark of six.

Mutis Dragos loaded a 45-degree plate-loaded leg press with 30 plates of 20 kilograms, 600 kilograms in all, at a gym in Bucharest, Romania, and ran through ten slow calf raises without a leg strap. The continuous video opens with a pan across the stacked horns on both sides of the sled, then circles round to show both legs locked straight while the ankles alone drive the sled through every rep. That's more than half a tonne, about 1,322 pounds, pushed around by a pair of calves.

Jose Manuel Martin Molina did 40 consecutive decline push-ups with his fingers locked together at home in Ayamonte, Spain. With his feet up on a sofa seat he measured at 43 cm (about 17 inches) and his clasped hands on the floor, he lowers his chest to his hands and presses back to straight arms on every rep, finishing all 40 in about 36 seconds. The video is one continuous take from setup to dismount, and our own count matches his 40. That left him almost half the minute to spare.

Isaiah Tolbert pressed 847 pounds on a 45-degree leg press at a gym in Snellville, Georgia, three days before he turned 13. Before the lift he shows the camera the sled's 167-pound label and the plates loaded on both sides, then lowers the sled into a deep knee bend and drives it back up to nearly straight legs in one continuous take. The total counts the plates plus the sled, as the rules require. Not a bad way to sign off on age 12.

Daniel Tochev of Pleven, Bulgaria, did 51 crunches in 30 seconds on his living-room rug, arms crossed over his chest and knees bent while a training partner sat at his feet holding a stopwatch up to the camera. That is better than one and a half crunches per second, each one curling his shoulders well up off the floor. We counted every rep frame by frame against the stopwatch in the shot, and one more crunch landed just after the 30-second mark. Anyone chasing this record will need very fast abs.

Abdul Rehman Nasim of Karachi, Pakistan, dresses head to toe in camouflage and skips across a sunny rooftop straight at the camera, driving each knee high and pumping a fist like a drill instructor on parade. The opening ten seconds of his video are one continuous take showing at least the 9 skips he claimed, before the clip cuts to other angles set to music. Recess has never looked so disciplined.

Ben Connolly performed 100 leg lifts in two minutes, 25.22 seconds.