58-Year-Old Grandma Smashes The World Record for Plank: “I Actually Still Can’t Believe It”
During the spring of 2020, as businesses shut-down and everyone adjusted to working from home — I decided to throw down the gauntlet on myself:
Do a five-minute plank.
Ever since high school, I toyed with the idea but never committed myself to see it through. But forever whatever reason, during 2020 I decided it was time to do it.
The experience was enlightening and I discovered many lessons training up to the 5-minute mark including — fast bpm music does not help (slower Japanese music was the best)… look at the clock as little as possible… and how feelings of giving up were fleeting (and you can become more at peace with them).
While this accomplishment was deeply satisfying and a challenging mountain for me personally to climb, it does not hold a candle to what people have accomplished with this exercise.
For instance, 58-year-old Donna Jean Wilde recently broke the women’s world record for the plank. On March 21st, she went back to the Magrath High School gymnasium, where she was a vice principal, and set-up on a platform for her marathon plank.
