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My name is Benjamin Ritter and I'm the Guinness World Record holder for the most consecutive
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acid chin-ups. I just wanted to show the people that you can achieve anything if you set your mind
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to it. That if you train hard enough and have the right discipline, even a guy like me from
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a small town in Germany can break a world record. I originally started training when I was about 10 years old because I wanted to be a professional wrestler
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I was a huge fan of people like The Rock and John Cena. So I just started doing push-ups, pull-ups and sit-ups and stuff like that because I
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could do it at home. And over the time I just started to take the training more seriously because it was fun
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But then the Covid era came and you couldn't go to the gym anymore because I always needed
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a goal in front of me. I started to check the current Guinness World Records and I saw the record for the most
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consecutive acid chin-ups. And then I started to train for that goal
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Let me just show you how it's done. Okay, we use a supinated grip, grab the bar and raise our legs to a 90 degree angle
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Then we pull ourselves up and breathe out. And then we go down and breathe in
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Your arms have to be straight after every repetition. And for it to be a constant and consecutive manner, you never will use more than two seconds
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between every repetition. Up until the day of the actually world record attempt, I wasn't really nervous
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I was just excited and very confident that I could do it because I just knew I had trained
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more than enough to break the record. There was only one thing on my mind and that was I won't stop until the record is broken
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The acid chin-up is one of the exercises that looks way easier than it actually is because
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you have to straighten your legs the whole time. And even if your legs go down a little for one repetition, the attempt is over
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Breaking a Guinness World Record is just awesome. It's like a dream come true
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I mean, being the best in the world at something is just awesome
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How many people can say that about themselves
