World Records for Push-Ups
THE RULES
- What counts as a pushup?
The palms must be at shoulder-width. The body must remain
straight throughout, i.e., no bending at knees or waist. The
body must be lowered until at least 90 degree-angle is attained
at the elbow and the body is parralel to the ground. The body
must then be raised until the arms are straight. This equals one
push-up. All pushups should be made on a hard surface. This
basic principle applies to all our push-up entries with minor
modifications.
- To document a record,
two videos must be provided: one from the front view, a second
one from the side view.
- Finger tip: instead of the palm of both hands touching
the floor, only the finger tips (including the tip of the thumb)
may touch.
- One arm: Only one arm may be used and the same arm must
be used throughout the attempt. In this attempt the hand is
placed flat on the floor.
- One finger: Only one finger of one hand may be used.
The thumb may not be used. The record is for the number of
repetitions; no rest breaks are permitted. The one-finger
position must be maintained throughout. The side of the index
finger must not be used as this means other parts of the
hand will come in contact with the ground and therefore
invalidate the attempt.
correct position for fingertip push-ups:
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WORLD RECORDS
- non-stop: 10,507; Minoru Yoshida (JPN), Oct 1980 DETAILS
- non-stop (women): 808 (without leaving the push-up
position) by Mia Hepburn (Canada) on 21 January 2017 at the
Golden Tiger School of Kung Fu in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
- one year: 1,500,230; Paddy
Doyle (GBR), Oct 1988 - Oct 1989
Nathaniel (�Nate�) Carroll (USA) documented a total of 1,506,911
push-ups from 14 June 2020 to 13 June 2021 in his personal log
book.
Many, but not all of these records have been witnessed and
confirmed by different witnesses. While there is no reason to
question the honesty of Nate Carroll, it has to be noted that
the the confirmation of every single push-up that would be
required by strictly applying the rules for this record was not
fully available. VIDEO
- 24 hours: 46,001; Charles
Servizio (USA), 24/25 April 1993 at Hesperia VIDEO
- 1 hour: 3,877; Bijender Singh (IND), 20 Sept 1988 DETAILS AND NATIONAL RECORDS
- 1 hour (women): 1020;
Alicia Weber (USA), 1020, 13.
August 2011 in Clermont, Florida, USA (in this hour, she did
also 826 mountain climber exercises!)
- 30 minutes (women): 829; Alicia
Weber (USA), 8 February 2011 in Clermont, Florida, USA
- 10 minutes (women): 450; Alicia
Weber (USA), 24 May 2009 in Clermont, Florida, USA
- 3 minutes (women): 190; Renata Hamplov� (TCH), Record
Festival Pelhrimov 1995
- one minute: Record claims up to 199 in one minute have
been made. We do, however, not continue to publish these
record claims, because it became impossible to
judge about the correctness of the exercises at this speed. The
last record that was accepted by the Guinness Book of Records
were138, achieved by Roy Berger (Canada) in on 28 February 2004
in Ottawa. Before, we have also verified 138 pushups in one
minute, achieved by William T. Mello (USA) on 30 May 2002. The
same statement applies for the category "100 push ups with legs on a 80 cm
high table" where the last verified record was 45.7
seconds by Roy Berger (Canada), achieved on 24 February 2001 in
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- one-armed, one week (168 hours): 16,723; Paddy Doyle (GBR), Feb 1996
in Birmingham
- one-armed, 5 hours: 8,794; Paddy Doyle (GBR), 12 Feb
1996 in Birmingham
- one-armed, 1 hour: 2521; Paddy Doyle (GBR), 12 Feb
1990 in Birmingham
- one-armed, 30 minutes: 1382; Doug Pruden (CAN), 30 July
2003 at the Body Quest Health Club Edmonton
- one-armed, 10 minutes: 546; Doug Pruden (CAN), 30 July
2003 at the Body Quest Health Club Edmonton
- one-armed, 10 minutes (women): 180; Alicia Weber (USA) on 23
September 2011 in Clermont, Florida
- one-armed, on back of hands,
one hour: 1025; Doug Pruden (CAN) at the Don Wheaton
Family YMCA in Edmonton, 8 November 2008
- one-handed handstand pushups:
Yury Tikhonovich (RUS)
did twelve pushups while standing on one hand in June 2006 at
the Starclub variete in Kassel (Germany). He repeats this feat
almost every day in the rehearsal for his show VIDEO (AVI, 1.3 MB)
- on fists: 5557 (in 3:02:30 hours), Doug Pruden (CAN), 9
July 2004, Body Quest Health Club Edmonton
- 1000 pushups on fists: 18:13 minutes, Doug Pruden
(CAN), 9 July 2003 at the Body Quest Health Club Edmonton
- on back of hands, 15 minutes: 627; Paddy Doyle (GBR), 8 November
2007, Stamina's Boxing Self Defence Gym, Erdington, Birmingham RECORD HISTORY
- on back of hands, 15 minutes (women): 385 (including a
record of 251 consecutive ones without leaving the push-up
position); Eva Clarke
(Australia), 19 June 2013 at Gems American Academy in Abu
Dhabi, UAE VIDEO
- on back of hands, 30 minutes: 1386; Paddy Doyle (GBR), 8 November
2007, Stamina's Boxing Self Defence Gym, Erdington, Birmingham RECORD HISTORY
- on back of hands, 1 hour: 1940; Paddy Doyle (GBR), 8 November
2007, Stamina's Boxing Self Defence Gym, Erdington, Birmingham RECORD HISTORY
- finger-tips, 5 hours: 8,200; Terry Cole (GBR), 11 May
1996 in Walthamstow
- one finger: 124 Paul Lynch (GBR), 21 April 1992 in
London
- on both thumbs with 30 kg extra weight: 20 David
Zhorzholiani (GEO), 19 October 2013 in Marneuli, Georgia
- with a 50 lb [22.68 kg] plate weight on his back:
4,100: Paddy Doyle (GBR),
28 May 1987 in Birmingham
- with hands on raw eggs: 112; Johann Schneider
(AUT) / a video can be downloaded here as Quicktime video (1.2
MB) or AVI video (1.4
MB)
- one-armed, with hand on a raw
egg: 8; Darryl
Learie (Canada), 5 January 2012 in the city TV studio at
Breakfast Television Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. VIDEO, THE
STORY BEHIND THE RECORD
- while balancing on three
medicine balls (diameter: 24 cm), 1 minute: 70: Joh-A Kpalete (GER/TOG)
on 8 December 2014 at Powrx fitness company in K�ngen, Germany
- while balancing on three
medicine balls (diameter: 22 cm), 1 minute (women):
70; April Calderon on 4 October 2017 at The Hideaway in
Clearwater, Florida, USA
- Planche pushups, 1 minute: double amputee Temur Dadiani
(GEO) did 36 planche pushups (starting from and returning to a
planche position) on 3 August 2014 at The Ministry of Defence of
Georgia, in Tbilisi. VIDEO
- Bakasana Pushups: 42 while keeping the "Bakasana"
(crow) yoga position, Kukuri Salbishvili (GEO), 16 September
2014 in the Ksani #15 prison, Georgia VIDEO
- 4 hr relay (team of 10): A team of ten members of the
British Army did 19,130 push-ups in 4 hours at on 30 January
2020 at RAF Digby, UK. At each point of time, only one team
member was allowed to do push-ups. The record breakers were SSgt
Thomas Whitehead, SSgt Andy Kohut, Sgt Steve Morris, Sgt Trev
Dewhurst, Cpl Pete Harvey-Jones, Cpl Scott Petrulis, Cpl Connor
Woods, Cpl Matthew Love, LCpl Connor Duncan and LCpl Joe Daviot.
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