N.C. veteran completes over 3,000 pushups in an hour, breaks world record Updated May 05, 2021; Posted May 05, 2021 A veteran from North Carolina broke the Guinness World Record for most pushups completed in an hour. (photo by MIL-TECH PHARMA LTD via Unsplash) Facebook Share He certainly pushed himself to the max. A man from Charlotte, N.C., broke the Guinness World Record for most pushups completed in an hour, hitting a total of 3,050. The previous record was 2,900. WRAL.com reports that TShane Johnson—who is also a veteran of the Marine Corps—spent five months training for the Saturday endeavor. A motivational speaker, Johnson explained that he takes on such feats as a means of getting “a lot of really great messages out.”