To prepare for Tuesday’s competition, Wilde approached the last month like she was preparing to run a marathon. “I was going to be early, waking up at 2 a.m., and planking until around 6 a.m.,” she explains. That time frame allowed her to go about the rest of her day totally normally. She also loaded up on carbs and protein the day before her record-breaking hold, adding that she loves meat and eggs. The day of was a different story. “I actually went in purposefully dehydrated because I knew I could have sips of water,” Wilde says. After all, there would be no breaks for the bathroom.
Once Wilde had hurtled past the old record, things got a bit more difficult. “Once I broke my own record, I felt like I hit a wall. I thought, I don’t know if I can do the last half hour,” she says. “But people were cheering me on, so I made it.” She also had her post-plank meal in mind. “Crazy enough, every night I eat the same thing,” she says. “I love to eat yogurt with puffed wheat. So in the final minutes of holding the plank, I was just thinking, I’m going to have some yogurt and puffed wheat after this.”
Though she was “a bit stiff” after this week’s event, Wilde is already back on her toes and forearms. “Planking helps me stand up straight, gives me energy, makes me ready for the day,” she says. “No matter my age, it keeps me going.”
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