Nicolas Bodereau, former football player of Sablé FC (N3), is a regular in unusual sports.
In October, he became the world record holder for the number of sit-ups performed in one hour.
And recently, he became French chase tag champion with a group of friends from Le Mans.
Under his shirt of honest National 3 footballer hide sacred chocolate bars.
It must be said that Nicolas Bodereau, 23-year-old Manceau, has maintained them for several years.
Even more so since he became the world record holder for the number of sit-ups performed in one hour (8,007)!
It was last October in Tours, in the city of his biggest competitor, Roger Prévost, a muscular man of… 85 years old.
How did this left side from Sablé-sur-Sarthe (N3), passed through the Laval training center and future recruit for the Corsican club Lucciana (N3), manage to set this record, listed in the Guinness of Records?
Nicolas Bodereau retraces the thread of his story which changed "one evening, in his room" while he was watching sports videos.
We are in 2019. “I came across Roger Prévost, a former soldier and bodybuilder and above all world record holder for abs in one hour.
I said to myself: "Why not try this record?"
Nicolas warns local journalists and those around him of his crazy challenge.
March 2020: in his garage, in front of 300 to 400 people, he smashes the old record with 9,700 abdominal contractions - "on your back, raise your chest with your hand behind your head as many times as possible in one hour" -.
He achieves 3,000 abs more than the previous record.
In TPMP and Ninja Warriors…
His feat took on “incredible media coverage”.
Local media are interested in his physical prowess.
France 3 devotes a report to him.
One evening, he stumbles across his record… in Touche pas à mon poste on C8.
“I was shocked when I saw that…” And then, a few weeks later, a phone call from the production of the Ninja Warriors show.
"There, I'm in a dream...", admits the one who will join Corsica to pursue his football career and who is still thinking of becoming a professional.
On the TF1 show, which will never be broadcast, Nicolas fails on an obstacle.
“I wasn't fast enough in qualifying.
But, I would have had my little moment of glory.
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Beginning of 2021, phone call from Roger Prévost, the former lord of the abs.
“He calls me to challenge my record.
It lacked ushers, clocks.
In short, according to him, nothing was done according to the rules of the art.
A few months later, under the watchful eye of the bailiffs, Nicolas Bodereau dominates Roger Prévost with 8,007 abs.
"He found excuses, he was touched in his ego, but I don't blame him," smiles the Sarthois, who trained in parallel with football to become a sports coach.
A new spotlight which propels him to the NRJ Music Awards in Cannes a month later.
“It was like a dream…”, slips the one who has now paid for the services of an agent.
French Chase Tag Champion
The young man is again noticed in another discipline, but this time with his friends from Le Mans.
Team Broco (“because I eat a lot of broccoli”) registers by chance at Le Mans for the French “chase tag” championships (game of tag in extreme sport mode) and wins!
Semi-finalist at the last European championships in Belgium in January, the Le Mans team will line up in two competitions at the end of June in Poitiers and Lille.
With the leader: the inexhaustible Nicolas Bodereau.
A young man who claims to remain "simple", having succeeded "thanks to his determination and his ambition".
But, above all, a sports convict: “I train every day between an hour and an hour and a half.
It's my way of life.
And for chocolate bars, any other advice?
"The plate,
it's important and I don't smoke or drink.
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