Happy Guinness World Records Day 2019!

I broke a 21-second record during my lunch break since I didn’t have a whole lot of free time on this special Guinness World Records day. In the end, it took 21.69 seconds to surpass the previous record of 32.05 seconds.

The record was for the Fastest time to transfer 40 lbs of weight hand to hand 100 times. It turns out my 40lb dumbbell actually weighed 42 lbs so I did a little extra. At no point can both hands come in contact with the object at the same time. I had a 16.7-second attempt that was disqualified because one of the frames on one of the 100 passes showed both hands came in contact with the barbell at the same time. We reviewed it in slow-motion video and it looked good. It wasn’t until I did a frame-by-frame analysis that I realized that 1 of the 100 transfers had both hands touching the dumbbell at the same time. It also wasn’t 100% clear that I didn’t just “tap” it instead of full grasping and taking control of the object. The rules disallow simply tapping the object.

My fingers paid the price for this record but they will heal.

Grit, growth mindset, and hard work lead to another Guinness World Records Title.