World Records for Push-Ups

World Records for Push-Ups (Press-Ups)

WORLD RECORD LIST

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THE RULES

correct body position for push-ups (GIF, 10 kB)

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 parallel 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: correct position
for fingertip push-ups

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 did 22,816 push-ups in 4 hours at on 27 July 2024 at the Iron Jungle Gym in Owensboro, Kentucky, USA. At each point of time, only one team member was allowed to do push-ups. The record breakers were Bob O'Brien, Dale Stevens, Zachary Clark, Reece Carroll, Mazden Ng, Collin Carrico, Blake Roberts, Zach Kirkman, Steven Stevenson and Kaw Wah
4 hr relay, women (team of up to 10): A team of 6 women did 15,908 push-ups in 4 hours on 28 September 2024 at the Iron Jungle Gym in Owensboro, Kentucky, USA.
The team members were Brenna Alderton, Maliyah Taylor, Heather Gross, Megan Durham, Sarah Hayden and Helah Pettigrew (all USA).

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