It might be worse than you think đłCheck the commentsâŚ
Truett Hanes broke the Guinness World Record for ‘most pull ups in 24 hours (male)’ (Instagram/ @just_truett)
Truett Hanes took to Instagram to reveal he did ‘10,001 pull-ups in 24 hours’.He explained in the comments: “For those asking, I successfully broke the record for most pull-ups in 24 hours by 751 reps with a total of 10,001.Indeed, the Guinness World Records website states: “The most pull ups in 24 hours (male) is 10,001, and was achieved by Truett Hanes (USA) in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, from 1 to 2 February 2025.”The attempt began at 11am February 1st and concluded at 9:16am on February 2nd.However, the stunt certainly came at a cost for Hanes – or more specifically, his hands.Hanes himself noting he ‘wore gloves’ but ‘it didn’t make a difference’, sharing a close-up of his red, raw, puffy and dry-skinned hands.Warning: Do not try this at home – and the Guinness World Records notes an age restriction of 16 years old for applications for the record title.
The video goes on to show Hanes’ hands in the days following his record breaking win too.Day one sees his hands still very puffed up and with dry skin, and cracks and day two isn’t much better, nor three.The third day, one of his fingers looked like the top layer of skin has been fully ripped off – I can only apologise if you watched the video while eating.However, ‘one week later,’ and Hanes was back to doing pull-ups on a bar, and outside in the snow no less.The fitness fanatic stated his hands were ‘100 percent healed’, and it’s not taken long for people to weigh in.
Ouch (Instagram/ @just_truett)
One Instagram user said: “100 percent healed is a bit of a stretch.”However, Hanes responded: “looks can be deceiving, theyâve never felt better.””His index finger was reborn,” another added.And a third commented: “Was so confused and ‘wtf is bro doing’ until i saw that you did it for charity. That’s like a small cut to the skin to give a whole new life to others. Love your sacrifices man.”
A man who’s eating an entire roast chicken every single day has detailed the surprising impact it’s had on his body.I mean, we all have our favorite meal right? But despite how nice it may taste, having that same food every day for a year is certainly outlandish.James Ellis is doing just that with a roast chicken, as he continues his mission to have an entire one every single day.He is introducing variety into his somewhat limited diet, however, as he buys the roast chicken from a variety of different places, from budget supermarkets to fancy restaurants.Ellis got the bizarre idea after watching a pal eat a whole bird in 2025, which led to him deciding on the crazy 2025 challenge.
Ellis is eating a roast chicken every day (Instagram/@dailyroastchook)
Speaking of it, Ellis told news.com.au: “We were doing this big project and at the end of one of the days, he went to IGA and got a roast chicken and six beers.”He just ate the whole chicken and drank all the beers in one sitting. I just thought it was the funniest thing ever.”While there are certainly unhealthier foods to eat than a roast chicken, one doctor warned ‘long-term excessive consumption presents multiple health concerns’, according to the New York Post.Ellis added: “I have been reading the comments and I am just amused at all the armchair doctors who seem to think Iâll be dead in a month.”I ate McDonaldâs and a fast food diet and smoked 20 cigarettes a day for a decade. Iâm not dead yet. I donât think chickens will be what does it.”Speaking further to UNILAD, Ellis said: “I feel fine, no different to before I started. Iâm pretty doubtful Iâll have any health complications due to it, it would have to be life-threatening for me to stop.”
Ellis isn’t worried about health implications (Instagram/@dailyroastchook)
Dr. Zac Turner spoke to news.com.au about possible health implications the roast chicken lover could face down the line.”While high protein intake can be beneficial in certain scenarios â such as short-term bulking phases or competition prep for elite athletes â long-term excessive consumption presents multiple health concerns,” the health professional said.”While consuming high protein in the short term, combined with adequate hydration, exercise, and balanced micronutrients, can be beneficial, a long-term diet of an entire roast chicken daily is not advisable.”The nutritional imbalance, kidney and liver stress, cardiovascular strain, and lack of fibre would likely lead to severe metabolic and systemic health issues over time.”
Yes, you read that correctly.We’ve long been told that products high in saturated fats â like butter â are bad for us, and that we should limit the amount that we have.As well as butter, saturated fats are found in foods like red meat, full-fat dairy products, coconut oil, ice cream and baked goods.It’s said that only five to six percent of our daily calorie intake should come from such fats, as studies have shown that high saturated fat intake increase some heart disease risks and stroke, explained Healthline.It’s also associated with weight gain, and people are encouraged to eat more monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats (seen as a healthier alternatives) instead.However, Dr. Sten Ekberg wanted to look into this further and see just how his own body reacted to eating more fats â specifically butter.Over a ten day period, Dr. Ekberg ate a whopping 100 tablespoons of butter and the results of doing so were very surprising.Breaking down his diet over this time frame, Dr. Ekberg said that fats made up 78 percent of his diet, while protein and carbs made up 15 and 7 percent respectively.Saturated fats wise, he was having eight times as much as he was supposed to have as part of a traditionally ‘healthy’ diet.
Dr. Sten Ekberg ate 100 tablespoons of butter over 10 days (@drekberg/YouTube)
With this in mind, current models would have predicted that Dr. Ekberg’s triglycerides (a type of fat that circulate in your blood and are stored in your fat cells) will have drastically increased, and that his insulin resistance would increase as well.As expected, it was projected that he’d gain weight from eating so much fat too.But, much to his surprise, this wasn’t the case at all.Dr. Ekberg’s weight started at 185 pounds, and after 10 days, this weight was the same.He went on to note that he ‘didn’t exercise a whole lot’ during the study, and simply did a few push ups and went on a couple of walks.
Experts typically warn people against having too much saturated fats in their diet (Getty Stock)
Meanwhile, his glucose started at 95, which later went down to 84. And his insulin went down to 2.8 from 3.5.”I might add that an ideal range for insulin is between two and five, whereas a diabetic is going to be more on a range of 25 to 30,” Dr. Ekberg went on to say.Dr. Ekberg also said that while he doesn’t recommend people have so much butter in their diets, he wanted to prove a point that the predicted outcome of having so much saturated fat didn’t happen to him.
