A 34-year-old Australian woman smashed the Guinness World Record for the most pull-ups performed by a woman in 24 hours by doing a whopping 7,079 pull-ups. To say Olivia Vinson put the old record for most pull-ups by a woman in 24 hours to shame would be an understatement, considering that the Australian fitness enthusiast nearly doubled it. The achievement began as a wild proposition from her husband and coach, and even though initially she just laughed at the idea of challenging a world record, it eventually started to make sense. Olivia trained for three months before taking on the challenge in September of last year, but 12 months into her attempt, she pulled a bicep tendon, which rendered her unable to perform pull-ups anymore. She had to cancel the whole thing, but after healing for a few months, she was back to breaking the Guinness World Record.

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“I was looking for a bigger challenge, and my husband and coach actually suggested 24 hours of pull-ups, which I initially, quite literally, laughed at because I thought there was no way,” Vinson told Guinness. “I looked up what the current record was, which was 4,081, and again I thought, ‘there’s no way’. After a little while, I did some maths on it and I thought maybe I could.” For the average man or woman, doing over 4,000 pull-ups in 24 hours sounds nigh impossible, which only makes Olivia Vinson’s achievement that much more impressive. The previous record of 4,081 had been set by Paula Gorlo (Poland) in 2021, but on 29-30 March this year, the 34-year-old challenger pulverized it, doing an unbelievable 7,079 pull-ups, or an average of about five pull-ups every minute over 24 hours. “I’ve achieved a number that I genuinely didn’t think was possible for me when I first came into this,” Vinson said. “Moving forward, this literally forces me to question everything that I don’t believe that I can do.” Something tells us that we’ll be seeing Olivia’s name in the Guinness World Book of Records again very soon.