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Oldest person to perform an abdominal plank (female)
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Aug 28, 2024
The oldest person to perform an abdominal plank (female) is 80 years 244 days and was achieved by Annie Judis (b. 23 November 1943, USA), in Beverly Hills, California, USA, on 24 July 2024. Annie attempted this feat as she loves a good challenge, she even held the plank position for over 4 minutes!
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At 80 years and 244 days old, Annie is proving you're only as old as you feel
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She has become a Guinness World Records title holder for the second time as she has become
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the oldest female to perform at a domino plank. She also holds the Guinness World Records title
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for oldest female competitive rope skipper. I couldn't believe it. I was just, I was in shock
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I know the record and I didn't have to jump rope. I was just so ecstatic
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Well, this part of my routine, my trainer always wants me to do a planking and I would only do
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like a minute just to satisfy him. I didn't realize that I was so fit and active until
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I started posting on Instagram. Everybody was telling me that I looked great. I couldn't
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believe it. They asking me for my birth certificate, but I get a lot of compliments
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and I love getting the compliments because it motivates me to keep going. I wake up a lot of people to get their body started moving because the important thing
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is you have to keep moving. You got to keep moving your body. If you don't move your body
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you'll lose it. I'm blessed that I am living at this age with no pain. To me, that's a miracle
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I used to always compete with my husband at the gym. He would love it when I compete against him
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I planked for seven minutes. I couldn't believe I did seven minutes. He only did like six minutes
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right? He loved it. As I was planking this time, I was thinking about him. I was thinking he was
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next to me and he was telling me, keep going, keep going. I tried to go five minutes, but I
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just couldn't. I couldn't go five minutes, but I did do four minutes of something, which was happy
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This is how Annie is preparing for her abdominal planking. We're going to go on the ground
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and we're going to place the forearms on the mat and toes on the mat
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It's really important for her to have her elbows 90 degrees. Shoulder has to be aligned with the
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elbow. Hip, shoulder and heel have to be aligned. That's why it's called plank. Very important. We
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don't want to touch the ground and we don't want to arch also the back. Everything has to be
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straight. We're going to push up right there. Jimmy, come a little bit more forward. Right
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there. Perfect. We want to be neutral here. We don't want to have arch in the back or be too low
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So as I said before, shoulder, hip and heel have to be aligned. Good job, Jimmy. I think age is just
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a number. I mean, you'd be surprised what people can do in their 80s now, in their 70s and 60s
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I feel like I'm much stronger as I got older. I feel like I have more energy all of a sudden
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I'll tell you one thing, after planking for four minutes, my energy picked up. I don't know if
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planking does that or not, but I got so much energy through planking. It feels wonderful
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I mean, it just gives me so much joy to be able to get another plank up here in my gym here
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