Fitness World Records

Ahmed "Iron Monkey" Kerigo performed a flying push-up using stacks of small benches 1.36 meters high. He is the founder and CEO of the calisthenics group Team Physix-Zero Gravity.

Pavol Durdik performed a forward hold using a 35-pound weight for one minute, 18.50 seconds.

Pavol Durdik performed a forward hold using a 45-pound weight for 54.16 seconds.

Peter Durdik performed 52 push-ups while balancing a soccer ball on his nape.

81-year-old Cherie Oney picked up cones 16 times while holding an isometric lunge.

Clint Poore performed a 475-pound raw bench press. He is 42 years old.

Alicia Weber performed 372 alternating squat thrusts in one minute.

Linas M. performed 148 knuckle push-ups in one minute.

Peter Durdik performed double rotation jumps using a jump rope 106 times in one minute.

Alicia Weber completed 120 reps in a 3-3 pull ups - headstand presses challenge.

Guillaume B. completed 76 deep squats in one minute.

Vass completed four consecutive six-finger handstand push-ups on a wooden floor.

Tyson E. completed a backflip over a rigid bar 1.38 meters high.

Thommy Ohlund performed a strict forward hold using a 50-pound dumbbell for 40.22 seconds.

Temur Dadiani of Georgian Records Federation performed 44 planche push-ups in one minute. Dadiani is a double-amputee soldier who was injured while serving in a mission in Afghanistan.

Most people try to do push-ups fast. Rich Hernandez went the other way. The Los Angeles fitness fanatic took a full 4 minutes to complete a single push-up, lowering and raising himself with agonizing control, smashing Tai Star's original 2013 mark of 1:42. For context, Hernandez did 373,730 push-ups in 2025 alone. He just chose to do this one really, really slowly.