Mao Weidong competed against ultra-athlete and former US marine George Hood. The retired marine set a new record last year and even surpassed it during his latest attempt by 2 hours, attaining 7 hours 4 minutes and 5 seconds, but his Chinese rival managed to squeeze out 8 hours 1 minute and 1 second.
Mao Weidong praised his service as police officer for making him so incredibly fit. He also called on TV-viewers to do the plank exercise.
8 hours 1 min! World's new #plank record set up by Mao Weidong from #Beijing SWAT team, Fri. How long can you hold? pic.twitter.com/vg9MU3bgNK
— People's Daily,China (@PDChina) 15 мая 2016 г.
