It took him 15 months to train for, but Doug ‘Censor’ Martin has finally beaten a fitness record we can only dream of achieving – although his hands are a mess.
There are many examples of gamers beating weird records, like that time when someone received a Guinness World Record for plugging hundreds of consoles into the same TV.
There was also the time a student built the largest functioning Game Boy ever, thanks to his obsession with the console when he was younger.
Now, a former Call Of Duty pro has made his way into the Guinness Book of World Records, in an equally bizarre but more sporting way: by beating the record for most pull-ups in 24 hours.
Doug Martin, known as Censor in his competitive gaming days and on Twitch, managed to do 9,250 pull-ups in 19 hours, before calling it quits.
Although his initial plan was to do 11,111 pull-ups, Censor decided to stop because his arms, wrists, and hands were completely exhausted.
Not only has he entered the Guinness Book of World Records, he crushed the existing record at 8,940 pull-ups – achieved by Kenta Adachi from Japan in February – with five hours to spare.
Censor said it took him over 15 months to train for the record attempt, and that he even recruited a former title holder to help, Jaxon Italiano, who managed to do 8,008 in 2023.
Be warned, below you can see what doing 9,000 pull-ups will do to your hands.
The attempt was livestreamed and showed how Censor would do a handful of pull-ups before resting for a short while, and then repeat the same procedure over and over again.
One of the many tuning in to watch was Twitch streamer Nadeshot, who was floored by Censor’s achievement, saying: ‘The amount of training this man must have done for the past few years, to be able to over 9,000 pull-ups, is astounding.
‘Bro, that is some mythical discipline. I mean, that’s the s*** you see in movies.’
Censor broke the record for a good cause too, the Purple Project, which has a mission to find a cure for pancreatic cancer and improve the lives of those affected.
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