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Battle Creek’s Charles Solano holds up the two Guinness Book of World
Records certificates late last week that show he officially set two world chin-
up records on May 3 at his Biggby Coffee location in Springfield. (Shopper News
photo by Will Kowalski)ting two world chin-up records – a
life that includes running his Biggby
franchises as well as being a mover
and shaker in the Cereal City busi-
ness community via meetings and
lectures.
Next Up For Solano
“As far as another world recordeffort with something like chin-ups
is concerned, no, I probably won’t
go after something like that again,”
he said.
“But I want to still strive to get in
the best physical shape that I can,
and keep challenging my mind and
my body. So I’m back to working
out and just trying to do hard things,
like I always do.”
Solano said it took him a “few
weeks to do chin-ups again” follow-
ing his day in May of setting world
records.
“I still probably haven’t done over
100 on a given day since the records
day,” Solano said, “but I’m still
working out. That’s just something I
do. I’m concentrating on other body
parts now and catching up to where
my arms got condition-wise for the
chin-ups records.”
Solano said he’s also concentrating
these days on figuring out the total
amount of money he raised through
his chin-ups endeavor – with the
funds raised to eventually go to the
Calhoun County Red White Blue
Foundation (as monies did, a total of
about $4,500, when he did his initial
chin-ups world record attempt in
2021).
“Right now, I know we raised
$5,000-plus – through donations by
people and businesses before and
during and after the event, as well
as through the money raised by cus-
tomers rounding up their purchases
to the nearest dollar the weekend of
(May 3),” he said.
“And when that’s all figured out,
the donation to Red White and Blue
will take place.”
Records By The Numbers
Turning back to May 3 again, there
was a sign on the office wall in the
area that Solano did his chin-ups that
he said provided him with one of
his several motivational tools for his
eventual world record accomplish-
ments.
The sign had to do with the age
at which a specific person accom-
plished a historical feat.
Among the listings: Ralph Waldo
Emerson enrolled at Harvard at age
14; Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft
at age 19; Mother Theresa foundedMissionaries of Charity at age
40; Dom Perignon first produced
champagne at age 60; Ben Franklin
invented bi-focals at age 79.
And at the bottom: Charles Solano
did the most chin-ups in eight and 12hours at age 49.
“It just goes to show what a person
can do, no matter their age,” Solano
said. “Mind over matter and lots of
training and practice and willpower- those are all things that come into
play when you’re trying to accom-
plish something of significance.”
By hourly chin-up numbers, here’s
how Solano broke his two Guinness
world records:
He had 540 at end of first hour,
1,015 after two, 1,470 after three,
1,910 after four, 2,375 after five,
2,810 after six, 3,290 after seven,
3,800 after eight (eight-hour world
record), 4,175 after nine, 4,455 after
10, 4,795 after 11 and 5,107 after 12
(12-hour world record).
“My right wrist gave me some
problems, it was screaming to me
for a while during the 10th hour,”
Solano said. “And because of that, I
had to go down to reps of three for a
while.
“But then I came back and started
doing sets of five again. And then
ones for a bit near the end, when I
was really getting tired, until I fin-
ished out with sets of five again.
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