UPDATE
Oct 10, 2026 8:10 AM CDT
DonnaJean Wilde did something remarkable at age 58. Then, at 61, she bested herself. The CBC reports the Alberta grandmother of 12 and retired teacher logged a five-hour abdominal plank at the Huntsman World Senior Games in Utah on Tuesday, eclipsing her own March 2024 Guinness World Record of 4 hours, 30 minutes, and 11 seconds. Wilde, who started planking 15 years ago after breaking her arm and realizing she could plank with a cast on, says repetition makes the exercise "easier." She planks for hours daily and even wrote a book that was published last year. Its name? From Minutes to Hours: I Wrote This Book While Planking. Guinness has yet to certify her new record.
Apr 9, 2024 8:39 AM CDT
Managing to hold a plank for 4.5 minutes is impressive. Doing it for 4.5 hours is extraordinary—and record-setting. CBS News reports DonnaJean Wilde has been certified by Guinness World Records as the new women's world record holder for the longest time spent in an abdominal plank position: 4 hours, 30 minutes and 11 seconds. That's 10 minutes longer than the record set in 2019. Wilde, a 58-year-old Canadian with five kids and 12 grandkids, managed the feat in March.
Her son tells Guinness that his mom has long been active: "Growing up, whenever we woke up, my mom had already ran four miles." She began planking 12 years ago after breaking her wrist and being unable to do her normal weight-lifting exercises while in a cast. Her preparation was intense: Up to three hours of planking a day—time she spent reading, watching movies, and studying for her master's degree. In the run-up to her record-setting attempt, she did two three-hour sessions daily.
CBS News tacks on a detail that makes her accomplishment all the more impressive: Wilde suffers from transverse myelitis and the inflammation she experiences in a section of her spinal cord as a result causes pain in her arms and hands. Or, you know, "those areas she relies on to hold a plank."
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