62-year old personal trainer and former Marine George Hood first gained a Guinness World Record for planking in 2011. Then his record was surpassed by a Chinese competitor. Now Hood holds the top title again since holding the planking for 8 hours, 15 minutes, and 15 seconds on February 15.
Hood's training regimen was brutal. Forbes reports:
In training for last month’s attempt, Hood reportedly did approximately 674,000 sit ups and 270,000 push ups. That’s totally Hood. To put these numbers in perspective, if you did a hundred sit-ups a day, it would take you over 18 years to do that many sit-ups.
-via Stuff | Image: Guinness World Records