We Asked This Guy Who Recreationally Balances Ladders On His Chin ‘Why?’
Most people use ladders to reach high shelves or change a lightbulb. David Rush takes one to his local squash court and balances it on his chin for prolonged periods of time. He recently did it for 19 minutes and 11 seconds—a new Guinness World Record . To put that into perspective, that’s roughly the time it would take most people to walk a mile. That’s longer than it would take to do a pork chop in the air fryer. You could watch an entire episode of The Big Bang Theory and Rush would still be there with a ladder on his chin, his lower back screaming. I know what I’d rather watch. Rush is an MIT grad with a degree in electrical engineering who works full-time as a tech product manager in Boise, Idaho. He holds 198 active Guinness World Records and spends his evenings training with a barbell-and-tennis-ball contraption in his living room. The jaw, he’ll tell you, is the strongest muscle in the body pound for pound. If you train it, your chin can hold pretty much anything. Ladder? Ye...