Muscling up to a world record feat
A FITNESS challenge with a friend has catapulted Jarryd Rubenstein to internet stardom and the Guinness Book of World Records.
AJN STAFF
A FITNESS challenge with a friend has catapulted Jarryd Rubenstein to internet stardom and the Guinness Book of World Records.
The Sydneysider was recorded completing 26 consecutive “muscle ups” -— a feat no one around the world has been able to match.
For the mortal athletes out there, a muscle-up is a combination of a chin-up and a dip in one movement, something that, according to Rubenstein, “shouldn’t be tried unless you can do 20-25 chin-ups first”.
Training is Rubinstein’s passion -— he exercises at North Bondi beach “as long as it’s not snowing” — fuelled by 16 months with the Israel Defence Forces Sayeret Golani unit.
His time in Israel converted him to a regime in which, he said, he has “not picked up a weight in five years”.
Back in Australia since 2008, the chiselled 26-year-old who works in wealth management trains religiously by the beach, doing exercises that use only his body weight for resistance.
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