A 64-year-old grandfather has set a record for the quickest time to complete 10,000 kettlebell swings -- while waiting for a hip replacement.

Jack Gilchrist set about completing the Worldwide Kettlebell Challenge -- to do 10,000 swings in a month -- but found he was racing through them.

The fitness-crazed Englishman completed it in just 21 days, a feat he said experts told him is unheard of.

So now he's set his sights on doing 100,000 of the super-strength swings in around 200 days.

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Each swing sees him hold a 56-pound metal bell in each hand, swinging them in a skiing motion while moving in and out of a semi squat.

His grueling fitness regimen comes despite waiting for a hip replacement for two years -- pushed back by pandemic restrictions.

Gilchrist, of Chorley, Lancashire, said: "People normally do 500 [swings] a day for 28 days, taking weekends off. The most I’ve ever done is 1,200 in a day. I’m 64 this year and the kettlebell swings only form a small part of my daily workout. I walked over 800 miles in the first lockdown last March."

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"The 10,000-swing challenge is worldwide and has been going on for years," he added. "It’s for all sorts of athletes across all ages. At the start of this last lockdown I thought ‘I’ll give that a go’. It was really hard, but such fun, and my immediate thought was ‘I reckon I could do that every day for a year.’"

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"When I first started, I was struggling to do sets of 10 and now I can do sets of 50 pretty easily," he continued. "I look younger than I do in pictures of me in my 30s."

Jack Gilchrist, from Chorley, Lancashire, U.K., completed the Worldwide Kettlebell Challenge in just 21 days.

Jack Gilchrist, from Chorley, Lancashire, U.K., completed the Worldwide Kettlebell Challenge in just 21 days. (SWNS)

Gilchrist said he started his first 10,000-swing challenge on Nov. 9, 2020, and completed it a week early on Dec. 6.

The gym fanatic decided to keep going and aim for 100,000. He's currently 81,430 swings into it and is due to finish in around a month, on June 6.

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He's had just 29 rest days since he started -- mostly to allow his hands to recover.

"In the first month, my hands got ripped to pieces. It was hard, but my God, it was good fun. It’s a dynamic, powerful exercise where everything comes from your core. Your secondary muscles like arms come into it a bit."

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"I don’t think I’m phenomenally good. There is just never a back door as far as I’m concerned. I feel that ‘life’s too short’ goes for everything -- relationships, health, everything. I’ve had my bio markers measured, and I am physically in the condition of a 35- to 37-year-old man," he said.

This story was originally published by SWNS