One day. 3 World Records. $50,000 for Veterans.
On April 12th I will be attempting to break 3 endurance fitness world records in a single day: The most number of ring muscle ups performed in 8, 12, and 24 hours! I am doing this to raise $50,000 for the Wounded Veterans Relief Fund, a veterans charity that helps veterans get the dental care they need. Something not covered by the VA in 85% of cases!
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I am making this attempt to help raise awareness and money for the Wounded Veterans Relief Fund (WVRF), a veterans charity based in West Palm Beach. WVRF provides veterans with dental care and dental procedures that allow them to live much more full and rewarding lives. I want to raise 50,000$ for WVRF so that they can help veterans receive much needed dental care that is often not covered by the VA. Since inception WVRF has helped 750 veterans receive dental care! You can read more about the work WVRF does to help veterans here:
WVRF: https://wvrf.org/
Ring muscle ups are a very difficult gymnastics move performed by doing a muscle up, a pull up followed by a dip, on gymnastics rings. These represent one of the harder exercises in calisthenics and gymnastics. To date I have done 17,000 ring muscle ups in training for this and have done 722 in a single session. I plan to complete 20,000 ring muscle ups before my record attempt.
I am a 2nd year physics PhD student at Duke studying quantum computing at the Duke Quantum Center. I previously broke the world record for the most number of bar muscle ups done in 24 hours in April 2025, completing 2002 muscle ups in under 19 hours. Before and during that attempt, I raised 20,000$ for another veterans charity, the Gary Sinise Foundation.
I have been doing calisthenics and body weight training for the better part of a decade. I got my first muscle up in 9th grade and haven't looked back since. I trained for plenty of calisthenics skills such as the front lever and one arm pull up; When I graduated with my bachelors degree I considered joining the military to become a Navy Seal. Even though I ultimately decided to pursue a PhD instead, I took away a deep sense of respect for the Seals and more broadly veterans.
When I started my PhD I wanted to find a new fitness challenge that would require me to develop the discipline, mental toughness, sacrifice that is developed in all members of the military particularly those in the special forces. To this end, I decided that pursuing endurance calisthenics world records would develop these traits in myself and also allow me to help raise money to support veterans.
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Wounded Veterans Relief Fund
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