First lady targets world record for jumping jacks

WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama wants to jump into the Guin­ness World Records book next week by help­ing break the title for the most peo­ple doing jump­ing jacks in a 24-hour period.

The first lady will lead hun­dreds of local chil­dren in doing one minute of jump­ing jacks on the South Lawn on Tuesday.

The event will be reviewed by an offi­cial from Guin­ness World Records and will sig­nal the begin­ning of a 24-hour challenge.

To break the record, more than 20,000 peo­ple around the world will need to do jump­ing jacks for a minute.

National Geo­graphic Kids is lead­ing the effort to break the record.

Let’s do a minute of jump­ing jacks dur­ing boot camp on Tues­day in honor of this goal!

Source: MSNBC