Stephen Buttler

Nordic Walking

Records

Record for Stephen Buttler are displayed below:

Record NameRecord Description
10 Step Bound
10 Step Bound: Stationary Start: 60 lb backpack: 29.70 metres. Stephen Buttler. May 19, 2012. Russells Meadow, Church Stretton, Shropshire, UK


 


Category: Longest Stationary Start 10 Step Bound with a 60 lb backpack

Drop-Catch Plyometric Push Ups
Drop-Catch Plyometric Push Ups: Between then onto 2*50cm high wooden benches: one min: 56 repetitions. Stephen Buttler. Dec 5, 2012. Church Stretton, Shropshire, UK.


 


Category: Most Drop-Catch Plyometric Push Ups between then onto 2*50cm high wooden benches in one minute

Full Body Airborne Alternating One Arm Plyometric Push Ups
Full Body Airborne Alternating One Arm Plyometric Push Ups: 1min: 56 repetitions. Stephen Buttler. Dec 5, 2012. Church Stretton, Shropshire, UK.


 


Category: Most Full Body Airborne One Arm Plyometric Push Ups in one minute

Hybrid Fitness Challenge
Hybrid Athlete Fitness Versatility Challenge: 20 Plyometric Flying Superman


Push Ups (hands and feet leave ground simultaneously; outstretched arms and legs must be horizontal with trunk), 100 Push Ups (shoulder width), 100 Squats on a fully inflated 75cm Swiss Ball, 100 Bench Tricep Dips (18 inches high), 100 Squats (hip width): One minute recovery between each exercise. Total Time for Active Phases: 4 mins 43.78 secs. Stephen Buttler. May 7, 2011. Martial Arts Show, NEC, Birmingham, UK


 


Category: Fastest Accumulative Time for a Specific Hybrid Athlete Fitness Versatility Challenge


 

Medicine Ball Throw
Medicine Ball Throw: Stationary Single-Arm Standard 4kg ball: 19.45 metres. Stephen Buttler. May 12, 2012. Rectory Fields, Church Stretton, Shropshire, UK


 


Category: Furthest Stationary Single-Arm Standard Medicine Ball Throw with a 4kg ball

Nordic Walk
Nordic Walking: 5K: 29 minutes 54 seconds. Stephen Buttler. On April 26, 2025 at ‘Parkwalk’ Launch Day: Groe, Builth Wells, United Kingdom.


Stephen Buttler, aged 50, broke Paul Woodland’s previous RHR Record of 31 minutes 3 seconds, also achieving a worldwide UK ‘all-comers’ record across all Nordic Walking Organisations. 


 


Category: Fastest 5K Nordic Walk.

Nordic Walking Ruck
Nordic Walking Ruck: Trail: Mixed Terrain: 60lbs ruck pack: 2.2 miles: 26min 34sec. Stephen Buttler. October 1, 2025. Comer Woods, Quatford, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, UK. (Fundraising for the 100 miles in October 2025 challenge for the National Autistic Society.)


 


 


Fastest Nordic Walking Ruck Trail 2.2 miles: 60lb ruck pack: minimum elevation gain: 53 metres 

Nordic Walking Ruck
Nordic Walking Ruck: Trail: Mixed Terrain: 30lbs ruck pack: 10K: 72min 9sec.


Stephen Buttler. October 10, 2025. Comer Woods, Quatford, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, UK. (Fundraising for the 100 miles in October 2025 challenge for the National Autistic Society.)


 


Category: Fastest Nordic Walking Ruck Trail 10K: 30lb ruck pack: minimum elevation gain: 300ft 

Nordic Walking Ruck
Nordic Walking Ruck: Trail: Mixed Terrain: 30lbs ruck pack: 5K: 35min 33sec.


Stephen Buttler. September 16, 2025. Comer Woods, Quatford, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, UK.


 


Category: Fastest Nordic Walking Ruck Trail 5K: 30lb ruck pack: minimum elevation gain: 74 metres

Pistol Squats
Pistol Squats: Fully inflated Swiss ball: 1 Hour: 1716. Stephen Buttler. On November 12, 2009, at Hope House, Morda, Oswestry, United Kingdom 


 


Category: Most pistol squats on a Swiss ball in one hour 

Power Lifting Back Squats
Powerlifting Back Squats: Swiss Ball: 1 minute: 2421.6kg: 48 repetitions: 50.45kg. Stephen Buttler. May 13, 2012. Martial Arts Show Live, NEC. Birmingham, UK.


 


 


Most accumulative weight Powerlifting squat lifted on a fully inflated Swiss ball in one minute

Push Ups
Push Ups: 4 Swiss Balls: 1 minute: 90 repetitions. Stephen Buttler. Nov 26, 2011. Church Stretton, Shropshire, UK


 


Category: Most Push Ups on 4 fully inflated 75cm Swiss


Balls, all balls held apart (cannot touch), on balls of feet

Push Ups
Push Ups: 3 Swiss Balls: 1 minute: 89 repetitions. Stephen Buttler, Nov 26, 2011. Church Stretton, Shropshire, UK


 


Category: Most Push Ups on 3 fully inflated 75cm Swiss


Balls, front balls kept apart (cannot touch), on balls of feet


 

Push Ups
Push Ups: 4 vertically positioned house bricks: 1 minute: 126 repetitions. Stephen Buttler. July 2, 2011. Church Stretton, Shropshire, UK


 


Category: Push Ups balancing on 4 vertically positioned 


house bricks (on their narrowest bases without frogs)


 

Push Ups
Push Ups: Fist (Knuckles): Clap: 135 lb backpack: 1 minute: 47 repetitions. Stephen Buttler. Feb 20, 2013. Church Stretton, UK


 


Category: Most Fist Clap Push Ups with a 135 lb backpack

Push Ups
Push Ups: 1 minute: 147 repetitions. Stephen Buttler. July 2, 2011. The Forum, Norwich, UK. Live adjudication by Dean Gould, RHR President


                                                                 


Category: Most Push Ups in one minute

Speed Walk

Speed Walk: Conventional Trail: Mixed Terrain: 5K: 28 min 52.5 sec. Stephen Buttler. September 14, 2025. Chasewater Country Park, Burntwood, Staffordshire, UK.



Category:  Fastest Conventional Speed Walking Official Race Event Trail 5K



 


Speed Walk

Speed Walk: Conventional: 5K: 28min 11sec. Stephen Buttler. On July 25, 2026 Stephen Buttler completed a 5K speed walk in 28 minutes 11 seconds at 'Parkwalk': Groe, Builth Wells, United Kingdom.



Category: Fastest Coventional Speed Walking Official Race Event 5K by a 50-54 year old male.

Speed Walk
Speed Walk: Conventional: Trail: Mixed Terrain: 10K: 64min 4.5 sec. Stephen Buttler. August 18, 2026. Wyre Forest, Callow Hill, Kidderminster, UK.


 


Category: Fastest Conventional Speed Walking Official Race Event Trail 10K by a 50-54 year old male: minimum elevation gain: 200 metres.

Speed Walk
Speed Walk: Conventional: Cross Country: 1.6 miles: 6kg weighted vest: 13 mins 5 secs. Stephen Buttler. Oct 30, 2025. Weir Field, Craven Arms, Shropshire, UK


                                                                 


Category: Fastest Cross Country Conventional Speed Walk with a 6kg 


weighted vest by a 50-54 year old male

Sprinting

Sprinting:100 M: 150 lb. Backpack: 15.88 sec. Stephen Buttler. On May 26, 2012, Stephen Buttler (UK) sprinted 100 meters wearing a 150 lb. backpack in 15.88 seconds. 



Category: Fastest Time to Sprint 100 meters with a 150 Lb. backpack.



 



 

Step Ups to upright standing on a Swiss ball
Step Ups to upright standing on an 85cm diameter Swiss ball. 30secs: 13. Stephen Buttler. Jan 26, 2013. Church Stretton, Shropshire, UK.


 


Most Step Ups from the ground to upright standing on a fully inflated Swiss ball in 30 secs.

Weight Caught from Forearm to Palm
Weight Caught from Forearm to Palm (same side of body): From an ascended elbow, catching a rectangular, solid weight, from a start and end position on it’s shortest bottom base, in the palm: 25kg.  Stephen Buttler. Nov 26, 2012.


Church Stretton, Shropshire, UK.


 


Category: Most Weight Caught from Forearm to Palm