Pull Up World Record: Every Guinness Mark, Event by Event

There is no single pull up world record. There are five, and they belong to five different kinds of athlete: one minute, most consecutive reps, one hour, 12 hours and 24 hours. Here are the current Guinness World Records marks for bodyweight pull-ups, with holders, dates and places, plus what those numbers should change in your own training.

Every bodyweight pull up world record, event by event

All of the marks below are unweighted. The Guinness standard reads simple enough on paper: chin clears the bar, then the arms return to full extension. Watch the dates, because five of these nine marks were set in 2026.

Event	Men’s record	Women’s record
1 minute	90, Yutaro Matsuta (Japan), Setagaya, 10 April 2026	50, Elina Pashalanova (Bulgaria), Sofia, 18 November 2025
Most consecutive	1,224, Kenta Adachi (Japan), Shunan, 10 November 2024	No separate category
1 hour	1,280, Milos Blagojevic (Serbia), Belgrade, 5 April 2026	881, Elina Pashalanova (Bulgaria), Sofia, 9 January 2026
12 hours	7,316, Yutaro Matsuta (Japan), Yurihonjo, 8 May 2026	4,466, Olivia Vinson (Australia), Launceston, 2 March 2025
24 hours	12,345, Enrique Zapata (Mexico), Queretaro, 31 January 2026	7,079, Olivia Vinson (Australia), Launceston, 29 to 30 March 2025

Look at the men’s column: Yutaro Matsuta owns both the one minute mark and the 12 hour mark. That combination is rare, and it tells you how high his baseline sits. If your reps are not clean yet, start with the complete pull-up guide before you chase volume.

One minute vs most consecutive reps: two opposite skills

The one minute record

Ninety reps in 60 seconds is a rep and a half per second. Raw strength is not the limiter there: you need the minimum valid range of motion, a rebound at the bottom and zero dead time at the top. On the women’s side, Elina Pashalanova sits at 50, roughly one rep every 1.2 seconds. These are cadence records, not strength records, and they reward anyone who can cycle the bar fast without pausing at full extension.

The most consecutive pull-ups record

Kenta Adachi strung together 1,224 reps without stopping on 10 November 2024, after already posting 651 in March 2022. The rulebook explains the difficulty: no more than 15 seconds may pass between reps, the body stays straight, and the attempt ends the moment the athlete lets go of the bar, per the rules published by Guinness World Records. Hours on the bar with no release: the skin on your hands usually calls the end, not your lats.

Endurance records: one hour, 12 hours, 24 hours

Milos Blagojevic hit 1,280 reps in a single hour, more than 21 per minute sustained for 60 straight minutes. Over a full day, Enrique Zapata holds the ratified 24 hour mark at 12,345, which averages 8.6 reps per minute across 1,440 minutes, sleep included. Put those two side by side and the gap is obvious: the hour record is a sprint you can pace with a stopwatch, while the 24 hour record is a logistics problem. Food, fluids, tape, sleep windows and bar height all matter more than your max set.

The American who broke 10,000 first

Truett Hanes was the first to clear five figures, with 10,001 pull-ups on 1 and 2 February 2025 in his own garage gym. He beat Doug Martin’s September 2024 record of 9,250, and he got there on 120,000 practice reps over six months, up from 70,000 before his first attempt in 2023. He finished with his hands red and shaking, and needed days for the calluses to heal. Keep that ratio in mind: record day is the small visible part of an enormous training block.

Goggins, Ludo Adamantium and the marathon attempts

The best known rep challenge in this sport is still David Goggins’ 4,030 pull-ups in 17 hours, set in 2013, and the French athlete who passed it: 4,051 reps in 16 hours 24 minutes on 20 May 2025. The full story is here, Ludo Adamantium vs David Goggins’ pull-up record. Do not stack those numbers against the 12,345 figure above: different protocols, different clocks, different standards.

Muscles worked, and why these numbers are possible

A pull-up drives the lats and teres major, the biceps brachii and brachioradialis, the lower traps, rhomboids and rear delts, with the finger flexors and the abs holding the line. On a set of ten, your back and arms quit first. At several thousand reps, the limiters switch sides: grip, palm skin and shoulders decide how far you go. That is why a one hour specialist and a heavy single specialist train almost nothing in common.

If you want your clean max to climb, train frequency instead of suffering: short sets, stopped well short of failure, repeated often through the day. Balance the pulling volume with vertical pressing too, which is what the weighted dip program is built for, or your shoulders will hand you the bill.

Weighted pull-up records are a separate scoreboard

Add a belt and you stop counting reps: you count pounds on one single rep, inside a bodyweight class. The two lists share nothing. The heaviest mark on our board is 265 lb (120 kg) of added load in the under 192 lb (87 kg) class, and no 24 hour record holder would come close to it. Full details sit on the weighted pull-up records page. To train that way, use the weighted pull-up program, and the weighted muscle-up program if you want to finish above the bar.

Your action plan if you want a rep record

1. Pick the event before you train. One minute, one hour and 12 hours are three unrelated preparations. Choose, then build.
2. Test your starting point. One max set of strict reps, then a 10 minute test in short sets. You will see exactly where you leak.
3. Stack volume over months. 120,000 reps in six months works out to about 660 per day. Start at 100 a day in sets of 5, spread from morning to night.
4. Prep your hands. File the calluses, use chalk, pick a smooth bar. On long attempts the skin stops you before the muscles do.
5. Film everything. Without continuous video, witnesses and a clean standard (chin over the bar, arms straight at the bottom), nothing gets ratified.

The usual mistakes: going out too hot in hour one, skipping water and carbs, choosing a bar so high you jump into every set, and training to failure every session. Record holders do the opposite, short sets, very often, for a very long time.