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A 22-year-old man from the US completed a staggering 12,412 pull-ups within a 24-hour window
According to WHSV3, Xavier Dillard began his gruelling journey on 2 May at 10am and powered through until 10.00am the following Sunday morning.
Dillard revealed his motivation to break a Guinness World Record sprouted three years ago from a simple basement rivalry with a friend whom he could not beat in the exercise.
"I'm better than him in every other exercise except pull-ups. Like, I hate pull-ups, and he loves pull-ups, and I couldn't stand it. I'm very competitive. So after we tried, I spent every day training pull-ups," Dillard said.
The process was far from easy, as the athlete described experiencing blurry vision and intense physical pain while attempting to reach his goal
"I could barely see, I was tearing up. I had blurry vision. I was laid back… I thought I was dying," Dillard recalled.
Despite the agony, he pushed forward because he wanted the record so badly.
Dillard noted that he was not naturally a gifted athlete, having been one of the slowest runners on his cross-country team when he was younger. He explained that he was a very skinny teenager and considered himself "nobody big" before he began this journey.
Dillard credits his success to a strict training programme that began two years ago, which eventually saw him performing up to 16,000 pull-ups in a single week
He explained that his training volume increased steadily over time.
"I started with doing four sets of 12 pull-ups, and then after every workout, like a couple of weeks later, I switched it to like… five by the minute for 300, and just doing that every day after every workout," he noted.
His success, he believes, is the result of diligent effort, rather than innate talent or a superior physical build.
"I just really diligently wanted something, and I put in the effort. So, I guess advice would be like just keep your head low and just work on what you're passionate about," Dillard added.
