Fitness World Records  

Alfonso Ribeiro led thousands of people in Universal CityWalk in Hollywood in performing the Carlton Dance. The flash mob included 6,601 dancers performing simultaneously in over 300 cities across the United States and Canada. They set the record to promote the Body by Vi Challenge, America's fastest growing weight loss and fitness challenge. Read more about the feat here. To see the full list of all participating cities with links to their performances on youtube click here (Excel document download).

Alicia Weber completed 605 reps of the arm-leg endurance challenge. Rules and Order for Challenge as follows: 1.Begin with 30 minutes of strict form chin-ups; starting in dead hang full extension with chin clearing bar for a rep. Must only use supinated (under handed palm-away grip) entire time. Must only use steel straight bar and no leg movements allowed. 2.Next, complete three minutes of deep squats where arms are held out entire time and legs break 90 degrees on all reps and return to full extension for a rep. 3.Finally, complete one minute of Swiss ball squats on fully inflated Swiss ball set on hard surface. Must remain balanced on Swiss ball entire time without any support and hands are free bringing legs to 90 degrees and return to full extension for a rep. 4.All three exercises must be completed in three hours or less.

Alicia Weber completed 205 pull-ups on a thick bar during a 30-minute 3-in-1 challenge. Pull-ups are to be completed in this order: 1.10 minutes of pull-ups with a 10-pound medicine ball held between legs 2.10 minutes of L-pull-ups where legs are held straight out and parallel to ground 3.10 minutes of regular pull-ups

Alicia Weber performed 802 consecutive perfect push-ups in one hour. After finishing the push-ups, Weber performed a plank exercise while reciting a published poem.

Flavio Codrin, a man over the age of 60, completed 1,232 non-stop, full push-ups.