Raising the bar...

Don't kid yourself.  Us, right here... we are raising the bar.  We are not pro-athletes, some of us are not yet pro physique competitors or elite military personnel.  We are tough as hell, girls next door pushing ourselves far past what we once thought we could do.

How many girls from your office do you know that can do a pull-up?   Have attempted a pull-up?  Slim to none right? Go back a generation, any luck?  We really are doing something that we should be proud of.

A year ago, I went to Kelly's bootcamp and tried a pull-up with an assistance band.  I couldn't do it.  I tried with all of my might but I just could not lift this booty of mine. When I started my training with Xavy, he accepted nothing but pure blood, sweat and tears.  Day one, I was doing modified hanging pull-ups from the smith machine.   After training about 4 months, I was doing maybe 10 pull-ups with the assistance band and 1 very labored dead hang.  Brent's workout regimen pushed things even further.  I am not sure what I expected being that every time I would look over, he was doing yet another set of pull-ups.  Every single workout, I was working on my pull-ups.  He taught me a kipping technique that just  made me look like a bad ass.  You know me, the better I think that I look, the harder that I am going to push myself.  I watched as Donny did the same with Angela.  Pushed, pushed, pushed!  Recently, I have seen her bang out 10 unassisted kipping pull-ups in a row. Damn that girl is a beast. A few months into training with Brent and I am doing several sets of 12 assisted kipping pull-ups... in addition to my regular workouts.  I can muster up 3 dead hangs and 40 second flexed arm hangs.  Not too shabby.  I have passed this on to Becca that is now kipping like a pro too.  I owe it to the guys in the gym that don't let us wuss out.  I owe it to the CrossFit WOD's that continue to push us to the limits and I owe it to the other hotties in the gym that make sure we know how awesome we are when we are doing them.  It is a joint effort, no doubt.  At the end of the day, we are the ones choosing to be hanging from the bar instead of sitting on a couch.  It is women like us that are changing expectations for women.  I read this morning that by 2014, the United States Marine Corps are changing women's P.F.T. standards to include pull-ups, not just flexed arm hangs. 

Okay ladies, what are we going to tackle next?

http://www.inquisitr.com/414896/female-marines-will-have-to-perform-pull-ups-by-2014/