October 24, 2024, 2:23 pm | Read time: 5 minutes

What a crazy achievement! Doug Martin, who many gaming fans probably know as “Call of Duty” esports player “Censor,” has undergone an incredible transformation over the past year – and has now broken the world record for the most pull-ups in 24 hours. Find out how he did it and how many pull-ups he completed here.

The new pull-up world record – despite finishing the attempt early

“I’m proud to say that I broke the Guinness World Record for the most pull-ups in 24 hours, with 9250 repetitions. I left the last three hours unused as my bicep strain prevented me from continuing”, Doug “Censor” Martin announced his success on Instagram. In other words, Martin didn’t even need the full 24 hours to break the previous world record set by Japan’s Kenta Adachi, who only set it himself this year. The world record to be beaten was 8940 pull-ups in 24 hours. Official confirmation from Guinness World Records is still pending – this usually takes several weeks.

This is how the world record attempt went

As the US magazine Men’s Health reports, Doug Martin had come up with a precise strategy. Instead of spreading the pull-ups more or less evenly over the 24-hour period, he wanted to set a good pace right at the start and complete as many pull-ups as possible as quickly as possible. So, the athlete hit the ground running right from the start with eleven pull-ups per minute. His plan worked, and he broke the world record a whole five hours before the time limit.

He lasted another two hours and increased the number of repetitions before finishing early – as the new world record holder – after 21 hours for the aforementioned reason (bicep strain). In addition to his biceps, his hands may also have made him stop after 9250 pull-ups. As pictures on Platform X show, they were in a terrible state after 21 hours of pull-ups.

Preparing for the world record

At the beginning of August 2023, the gamer announced that he wanted to attempt the pull-up world record. At the same time, he revealed that he had already been training for it for two months. A comparison of before and after pictures showed that his previously trained body had already changed significantly during this time. At the time, Martin still assumed that he would have to beat 8008 pull-ups to break the world record. The fact that the aforementioned Japanese athlete Kenta Adachi would initially go ahead and increase the number of repetitions to be beaten was not foreseeable at the time.

The former world record holder, Australian Jaxon Italiano, who completed 8008 pull-ups within 24 hours in March 2023, was also the one who supported Doug ‘Censor’ Martin during his preparation. Together with him, the former Call of Duty player also developed the aforementioned strategy of eleven pull-ups per minute for the world record attempt.

According to a YouTube video, Martin spent a total of 15.5 months training for his world record. He often completed his training sessions in the middle of the night and streamed them for his fans. In the past nine months, he did more than 100,000 pull-ups.

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Mastering pull-ups – how it works

Pull-ups are an exercise that has something fascinating about it. Everyone knows them and thinks they know how they work. Pull-ups look easy, but they are not at all. If you don’t train them specifically, you can be really fit and still not manage a pull-up.

And yet anyone can do them – if you know how to do them correctly on the one hand and how to work your way up to them on the other. Small tricks and aids help you to gradually work your way up to a pull-up and later many pull-ups – and stay motivated by making small progress.