Australian Man Hits 8,008 Pull-Ups In 24 Hours, Smashes Guinness World Record

Move over, Arnold … there’s a brand-new king of pull-ups in the area — an Australian man hit 8,008 of them in less than 24 hours … smashing the Guinness World Record!!!

GWR officially called Jaxon Italiano the brand-new world record holder today — verifying he did, certainly, finish the task Down Under back in November.

According to Guinness officials, Italiano broke the old record by almost 300 pull-ups.

Italiano recorded the accomplishment on his social networks page Wednesday, stating he trained for the pull-up competitors for 8 months … calling his time on the bar definitely difficult.

“I had to unfortunately leave the last 3.5 hours unused as I had completely exhausted myself,” he stated. “A big thank you to everyone who was involved and supported me along the way.”

In a picture of the consequences of the achievement, you can see Italiano’s hands were entirely wrecked — however the man was stired nevertheless, flashing a big smile.

The mark wound up benefitting more than simply Italiano … he utilized it as a fundraiser to bring awareness for the battle versus dementia — netting over $8,000 to support Dementia Australia.