Watch This Bodybuilder Resolve a Rubik’s Dice Whereas Holding a Weighted Plank

Health YouTuber Austin Dunham would possibly look ripped now, however he claims that again in highschool, he and his buddies have been “straight up nerds” and spent manner an excessive amount of of their time fixing Rubik’s cubes. “Earlier than I received into health, I used to do that on a regular basis,” he says. “I used to nearly observe it the way in which I do with figuring out now… I am nonetheless in a position to do it fairly quick.”

Dunham was impressed to take it again up after seeing a number of movies on-line of different health fanatics incorporating the favored puzzle sport into their exercises; for example, influencer Lawrence Obioma shared a video of himself fixing a dice one-handed whereas hanging from a pullup-bar in a single-arm dangle, and coach T.R.I.P. Match accomplished the dice whereas sustaining a weighted plank.

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So he determined to attempt his personal model of the Rubik’s dice exercise, and got down to break a world file on the similar time, by fixing the dice in as brief a time as potential whereas holding a weighted plank — and steadily rising the load with every new sport.

“I will begin off with 45 kilos on my again, and I will attempt to go as heavy as potential,” he says. “This would possibly simply be world record-breaking, as a result of I do not see no one doing this… One plate may be simple for me, however the problem I am giving myself is I will get progressively heavier and heavier every set. One plate, remedy, two plates, remedy, three plates, remedy. My purpose is 4 plates.”

And as for his technique with reference to the dice? “There’s not a secret to it, it is extra algorithms, recognizing patterns and understanding the transfer to unravel that sure sample,” he explains.

Dunham begins off with a single 45-pound plate on his again, and solves his first dice in 39 seconds. He provides one other plate for the second spherical, holding 90 kilos on his again for the 35 seconds it takes him to unravel the Rubik’s dice. The subsequent plate takes the load as much as 135 kilos, and he takes 43 seconds to unravel this one.

“Once you’re underneath that strain, it makes you wish to do it sooner, however then doing it sooner messes me up,” he says.