Hood, for example, often struggled with thoughts of quitting as the pain from planking intensified. For an hour or two they would discuss Hood's thoughts and any barriers he ran into. "Cleaning up people's mindset is a must," Cobley tells CNBC Make It, "as every human invents themselves through a figment of their imagination and their thinking."ĭuring training, Hood (who is based in Chicago) would call Cobley (who's based in Australia) after long practice planks. Cobley "taught me to believe no matter what." You wonder if it's worth anything," Hood says. Mindset coachingĭespite the physical pain of planking for eight hours, Hood says the hardest part of conquering the feat is the mental challenge. So for six months leading up to the event, Hood worked with mindset coach Renae Cobley. Here's how Hood trained for the world planking record. He began to plank every day for six months and eventually had his first Guinness World Record in 2011 with a plank that lasted one hour, 20 minutes and 25 seconds.įor the 2020 plank challenge, Hood, who is mostly retired but has some fitness clients, trained seven hours a day for about 18 months to build stamina and physical and mental strength leading up to the event.
"When I first tried to do it, I went five minutes," Hood says. Hood, an ex Drug Enforcement Administration agent, has been exercising since completing Marine Corps officer training program in his 20s, but says he is now in the best shape of his life at age 62.īut Hood, now a two-time planking world record holder, had an inauspicious start when he got into competitive planking 10 years ago. (The previous record was held by 45 year-old Mao Weigdong of China, who held a plank for eight hours, one minute and one second in 2016.)
Hood broke the record for the longest time in plank position for a male by holding one for eight hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds.
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