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A grandmother has broken the Guinness World Record for longest female abdominal plank.
Donna Jean Wilde, a 58-year-old mother of five and grandmother of 12 from Alberta, Canada, can now add a world record to her resume.
According to Guinness World Records, the Canadian held the board for just over four and a half hours at the high school where he was an assistant principal before retiring.
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To achieve the world record, Wilde had to keep his forearms and toes on the ground the entire time while keeping the rest of his body straight and lifted off the ground.
Wilde told Guinness World Records that she normally spends up to three hours planking every day, but that she had actually increased her plan to six hours in two three-hour blocks before the record day. .
Donna Jean Wilde, pictured here, has been involved in sports all her life, her family said. (Guinness World Records)
The fitness guru said she started doing planks 12 years ago when she broke her wrist and was unable to run or lift weights while in a cast, and as an alternative. He has switched to plank, he said in a press release.
“I fell in love with planking because I realized that when I was doing it, I could read a book or do something,” she said.
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According to Guinness World Records, this grandmother sometimes studied while sitting at a board while preparing for her master’s degree.
Wild held the board for just over four and a half hours at the high school where he was once vice principal. (Guinness World Records)
As for how he got through the four-and-a-half hour plank hold, Wilde said his elbow was in bad shape and he was worried about his form failing.
“I was really worried about my form being bad, and I think that’s what caused my quadriceps injury, because I was really nervous,” she added.
“It’s like a dream.”
Wilde said the first two hours went by fairly quickly, but the second half was much more difficult.
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“The last hour was the hardest just staying focused and maintaining my form,” she said in a press release.
Wilde’s husband, Randy Wilde, said his wife of 40 years also suffers from chronic pain in her hands and arms. But that didn’t stop her from taking home her award.
Wilde broke the world record by just over 10 minutes. (Guinness World Records)
“The chronic pain and numbness that she deals with every day allowed her to plank through the pain,” he told Guinness World Records.
“She has unique abilities in the world,” he added.
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Wilde’s son, Ray Wilde, a teacher at the school where the record attempt took place, told Guinness World Records that his mother had always been athletic.
“When we woke up, my mom had already run four miles, and that’s progressing over the years. She’s always been very active and healthy,” he said.
Ray Wilde and other teachers regularly brought students during classes last month to watch Donna Jean Wilde attempt a world record.
The plank holder added that he spent the last 30 minutes breathing and trying to calm down, which allowed him to beat his previous record of 4 hours and 19 minutes, set in 2019.
“I actually still can’t believe it,” Wilde said. “It’s like a dream.”
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The current world plank record for men is just over 9 hours and 38 minutes, and was achieved by a man from the Czech Republic in 2023.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Wilde for further comment.
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