{"id":230903,"date":"2025-07-02T02:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T02:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/230903\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T02:54:16","slug":"personal-trainer-goes-round-in-circles-to-finally-achieve-hula-hooping-chin-up-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/230903\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal trainer goes round in circles to finally achieve hula hooping chin up record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hula-hooping is hard enough on its own, but imagine combining that with an even harder exercise?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how personal trainer Reger Maffei (USA) achieved his first Guinness World Records title for the <strong>most consecutive chin ups while hula hooping (male)<\/strong> back in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was one of the most challenging ones to begin with,\u201d he reflects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first time I did it, I actually did the attempt before I knew the guidelines, so\u2026 that was silly!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/reger-hula-hooping-around-his-head.jpg\" alt=\"Reger hula hooping around his head\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, we do advise here at Guinness World Records to make sure you have received the guidelines before making a record attempt!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Guidelines in hand, Reger tried again two months later, but unfortunately did not manage to achieve the record.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/reger-hula-hooping-while-doing-chin-ups.jpg\" alt=\"Reger hula hooping while doing chin ups\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>However, giving up was not an option for determined Reger. A year later, on a sunny day in California, he managed to achieve the record title with a fantastic total of 16 chin ups.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that it took three times just made it oh so great to finally get that achievement,\u201d he confessed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/reger-hula-hooping-while-doing-pull-ups.jpg\" alt=\"Reger hula hooping while doing pull ups\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Reger went on to catch the record-breaking bug and decided to challenge his hula hooping skills further, by achieving three more Guinness World Records titles:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Most consecutive push ups while hula hooping in abdominal plank position (male)<\/strong> \u2013 47\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Most consecutive pull ups while hula hooping (male)<\/strong> \u2013 23\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Longest duration hula hooping in abdominal plank position (male)<\/strong> \u2013 7 min 41.28 sec\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hula-hooping is hard enough on its own, but imagine combining that with an even harder exercise?\u00a0 That\u2019s how&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4322],"tags":[1630,25666,105,90727,90726,90728,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-230903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-guinness-world-records","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-hula-hoop-records","12":"tag-hula-hooping","13":"tag-refer-maffei","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114781386497348663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}