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Longest Plank EVER!
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Mar 26, 2024
This is one of the toughest physical endurance records in the world. Josef Šálek (Czech Republic) decided to take on the mental and physical battle of holding the abdominal plank for the longest time. The time to beat? 9 hours, 30 minutes and one second.
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Head to toe experience of constant pain
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This is an official Guinness World Records attempt for the longest time in an abdominal
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plank position. This Guinness World Records title is an extreme feat of both physical and mental endurance
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In order to break the current record, Josef will need to maintain an abdominal plank position
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for a minimum of 9 hours, 30 minutes and 1 second. Pepa has some health problems from his back
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He has increased thoracic kyphosis and increased lumbar lordosis, so it was necessary to
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adjust the technique a little so that he would not hurt himself too much
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Of course, these are all things at a physical level, which helps during the training
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but what Pepa shows today is a mental addiction, where neither I nor any other coach
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is able to help him. It is simply in his head. I felt mentally prepared for it, not physically, because my longest training without
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interruption was 3.5 hours. I had a big complication when I tried to train more, to be in the plank position for a longer time
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I knew that in my case it was not about the physical, demanding preparation, but rather
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about the managed process, about the mental attitude. My favorite mental technique that I used during the long plank position was the acceptance
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of the difficulty of the exercise, in connection with the fact that life is not just about pleasant
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and simple, but also about unpleasant and demanding. And so I said to myself, it belongs to life and to the exercise, so why would I want to
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overcome it, fight it? But I just accept that this is how it is
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We are now into the final hour, as Josef approaches the current Guinness World Records title
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He has kept a good form throughout, and his spirit is high, but you can now see the signs
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of tiredness really creeping into his face. I'll be back soon with the final result for this official Guinness World Records attempt
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I was 15 kg over 5,5 years ago. I was a cigarette and alcohol addict
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But a certain circumstance in my life led me to this change
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So what I want to pass on to the world is that at any age you can make a change to feel
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happier, more vital, healthier. That's the message I wanted to pass on to you all with this record
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We've now reached the end of this official Guinness World Records attempt by Josef Salek
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for the longest time in an abdominal plank position. The current record to beat was 9 hours and 30 minutes and one second
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I now have the final result. Josef Salek today managed a total time in an abdominal plank of 9 hours, 38 minutes and 47 seconds
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And it therefore gives me great pleasure to officially recognise a new Guinness World Records title
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Josef Salek, congratulations on behalf of Guinness World Records. You are officially amazing
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Thank you. www.guinnessworldrecord.com
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