Aneta Hudson
Melbourne, Australia
STRAIGHT-ARM PLANK WORLD RECORD JOURNEY
One More
Minute Plank.
A personal journey toward the straight-arm plank world record, with training logs, articles, recovery notes and monthly tests. I'm building from a first twelve-minute hold toward the next minute, one honest session at a time.
CURRENT PERSONAL BESTIN PROGRESS
20:00Started at 12:00 · Apr 2026Next target 22:00
“Trust the process long enough, and one day the impossible becomes today’s training result.”
Straight arms. Active shoulders. A simple shape held long enough to become a journey.
STRAIGHT-ARM PLANK • STRAIGHT ARM PLANK • PLANK WORLD RECORD • PLANK TRAINING LOG • RECOVERY
THE NUMBERS
From twelve minutes
to the impossible.
Progress is not linear. It is accumulated: volume, long holds, complementary work and disciplined rest.
Separate discipline: forearm plank personal best — 27:00.
APR 2026 · FIRST ATTEMPT12:00Straight-arm starting point
MAY 202615:00Personal best
JUN 202616:00Personal best
AUG 202618:00Previous best
AUG 31 · TIMOR-LESTE20:00Current best
NEXT22:00Next personal record target
THE OFFICIAL BENCHMARKS
The times
to chase.
As listed by Guinness World Records, the straight-arm abdominal plank has separate female and male record titles. These are the marks that define the scale of the challenge.
Kenneth Travis
Longview, Texas, USA
The official target has moved dramatically. The project now needs a more honest reassessment of what the attempt can mean.
Guinness record ↗Guinness World Records notes that records can change before updates appear online. Male reference updated September 15, 2026.
STRAIGHT ARM PLANK
Guides for the position.
Evergreen resources on the straight-arm plank: what it is, why it differs from the forearm plank, what research suggests and how long-duration training changes the problem.
Explore the straight arm plank sectionMONTHLY TRAINING
The September plan.
A day-by-day straight-arm plank calendar: volume sessions, easy holds, strength work, recovery days and the final 22-minute test.
Open the monthly training tableTHE CHALLENGE
This is not a story about staying still.
In 2025 I spent several months training the forearm plank, eventually reaching a personal best of 27 minutes. In January 2026, I had the pleasure of speaking with Josef Šálek, the forearm-plank world-record holder. That conversation brought the scale of a world-record journey closer to reality.
Then, in April 2026, my Hungarian friend Zsolt told me about the straight-arm plank. I tried it and held for twelve minutes. That was the spark: a new position, a new question and the beginning of this project.
I am now working toward a world record in the straight-arm plank. The target demands more than strong shoulders and a rigid core. It demands patience, self-observation and the humility to stop when recovery matters more than pride.
For many months, I bombarded my friend Fabrizio with daily messages about every workout—times, sets, sensations, doubts and a seemingly endless number of details. Sharing the process with someone gave me a point of comparison, but it also revealed something more important: this journey is made of small bricks, not only of a final result that may one day be exceptional.
There is something powerful about being able to share those ordinary steps. That habit of writing to Fabrizio became the idea for this blog: a public record that could be interesting not only to people who want to understand the plank, but to anyone curious about how a passion is built piece by piece—and how a structured process can lead to better results, whatever the goal may be.
This journal records all of it: the structured sessions, the personal bests, the numb fingers, the bad nights, the strategic rest and the constant negotiation between ambition and reality.
ABOUT LUCA
Endurance,
curiosity and
open roads.
I am 55 and live in Italy. I travel extensively—for work and for the simple pleasure of discovering what is beyond the next border. As of August 2026, I have visited 106 countries, so there is a fair chance I have already passed through yours.
HALF MARATHONSMARATHONSOLYMPIC TRIATHLON2 × 100 KM DEL PASSATORE
My sporting life has moved through half marathons, marathons and triathlon up to the Olympic distance. I also completed the 100 km del Passatore twice—experiences that taught me a great deal about patience, mental endurance and the strange clarity that arrives when an effort becomes very long.
In 2018 I published a short book about the mental side of reaching a 100-kilometre finish line: La 100 Km del Passatore con il sorriso · Italian edition ↗, also available as The 100 Km Race with a Smile · English edition ↗.
LET'S COMPARE NOTES
Perhaps our paths can cross.
If you share a passion for plank training, endurance sports—or any sport with an interesting story behind it—I would be genuinely happy to hear from you. We can exchange experiences, compare ideas and, if my travels bring me nearby, perhaps even meet in person.
onemoreminuteplank@gmail.com ↗THE PLANK TRAINING LOG
Measured like training.
Written like a journey.
01
The session
Sets, duration, recovery and total time under tension in the straight-arm plank.
02
The body
Tremor, fatigue, technique, breathing and physical signals.
03
The mind
Focus, doubt, confidence and the mental negotiation of endurance.
04
The lesson
What changes next—and why the session matters on the road to a plank world record.