George Hood completed around 1,500 sit-ups per day to train for the feat. An Illinois man who spent the past several months training seven hours a day, including 1,500 sit-ups daily, has broken the ...

A 62-year-old former Marine reclaimed a world record he originally set in 2011 by holding an abdominal plank for an astonishing eight hours earlier this month, the Guinness Book of World Records ...

George Hood, a 62-year-old retiree from Naperville, Illinois, strapped a heart monitor band across his chest, attached a catheter to his body, climbed onto a custom-built table covered with a lambskin ...

‘In your 20s and 30s, being able to plank for 45-60 seconds is a solid marker of good core endurance,’ says PT Joseph Webb, ...

Canadian athlete and extreme planker Dana Glowacka has set a new world record in the female category for "Longest Time in an Abdominal Plank Position." She held a plank for an insane 4 hours, 19 ...

If you’ve ever tried to hold an abdominal plank during a workout, you know how challenging it can be even for just a few seconds. For many people, doing a plank — which is when you support your body ...

If you've attended any bootcamp or fitness class ran by an overzealous personal trainer with time to kill, you may have been asked to hit the floor and assume the plank position for as long as ...