Brazilian athlete breaks world record with 951 chest-to-ground burpees
Published in Weird News
(UPI) A Brazilian athlete living in Singapore broke a Guinness World Record when he completed 951 chest-to-ground burpees in one hour.
Cassiano Rodrigues Laureano celebrated his 35th birthday at the Tricolor Fight Team gym by doing 951 chest-to-ground burpees, an exercise also known as a squat thrust, and capturing a Guinness World Record in the process.
Laureano said he had originally aimed for 1,000 burpees, but fell short of his goal due to a leg injury he sustained two days before the attempt.
The athlete said the record attempt was a tribute to his niece, Rebecca, who was diagnosed with a severe heart condition when she was born last year.
Laureano took the record from Ontario gym owner Nick Anapolsky, who did 879 of the exercises in one hour in March.
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