James (Jim) Clark reeled off a world record 2,201 sit ups in one hour at the Mall of America in Bloomington (Minnesota,USA), on June 2, 2006. This broke the existing record of 1,448 by a man from India. It took him just 32 minutes to break the record and he did another 753 by the time his hour was up.
Mark Pfeltz of Baltimore, Maryland set the Guinness Book Of World Records for the maximum number of sit ups, completing 45,005 in 58.5hrs in 1986.
Many years ago, Jack LaLanne set the original benchmark for sit up-ups by completing 1,033 sit-ups in 23 minutes.
March 6, 2002: Brazilian man claimed the world record for the most sit-ups. Edmar Freitas did 111,000 sit-ups in twenty-four hours
Bill Evans, the former record holder for sit-ups, was in the Guinness Book of World Records for doing 103,000 sit-ups in twenty-four hours
May 7, 1983: August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups
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