People who know me know that I love push-ups. I love them so much that this is the second time in less than a month that I am featuring the popular exercise in my blog (see also 8/18/11 post). However, rather than lecture you on proper form, today I’d like to do something a little fun and provide you with the world records for the most number of push-ups in several different categories.
World records for the most push-ups
Most Push-Ups | Number | Holder | Date |
One year | 1,500,230 | Paddy Doyle ( | 1988-89 |
Five hours (one arm) | 8,794 | Paddy Doyle ( | 1996 |
Five hours (fingertips) | 8,200 | Terry Cole ( | 1996 |
One hour | 3,416 | Roy Berger ( | 1998 |
One hour (one arm) | 1,868 | Paddy Doyle ( | 1993 |
One hour (back of hands) | 1,781 | Doug Pruden ( | 2005 |
One hour (one arm, back of hand) | 677 | Doug Pruden ( | 2005 |
One minute (one arm) | 126 | Jeremiah Gould ( | 2006 |
Consecutive, one finger | 124 | Paul Lynch ( | 1992 |
One minute (back of hands) | 123 | John Morrow ( | 2006 |
Source: Guinness Book of World Records 2008 and http://www.guinessworldrecords.com
Who even knew that people are out there doing one-fingered push-ups? I guess it’s interesting to know that if you’re good at it, you can have a record to your name. Anyway, I’ll stick to my regular push-ups and I would advise you all to do the same!
~Lori Dotson, CPT
President, DotsoFit, LLC
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