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By Robyn Lynne Benjamin
As a 6th grader, I was ambitious to achieve the Presidential Fitness Award. At that time I was 5 2 ,had long, flowing hair, and weighed 91 pounds.
To complete the requirements of this award, a student must excel at physical fitness events.
Some of these categories included the 50-yard dash, the softball throw, the standing broad jump, and others.
The most challenging event to me, was holding on to a thick, metal, permanent bar, with my head held high above it. This event is called the Flexed-Arm Hang. This activity tested the strength in my upper arms. To be honest, it also tested my patience.
well, here is something new, women in the marine corps now have different fitness standards from their male counterparts. new rule will allow women to dodge the flexed arm hang and pull ups in favor of pushups if the women decide to do pull-ups they have to do fewerç than men do. men between the ages of 24 and 35, 23 pull-ups which is a ton more than i could do. women in the same age group 10. there is a catch. if you choose pushup. 70 out of 100. pull-ups 100. those points can effect future promotions but again they do not effect the nature of the wars that the marine corps has to fight. marine corps study found just 45% of women in boot camp can complete three pull-ups you get the point. new politically correct version of baby it s cold outside. two people behind the song are here. stay tuned baby i m cool with that
well, here is something new, women in the marine corps now have different fitness standards from their male counterparts. new rule will allow women to dodge the flexed arm hang and pull ups in favor of pushups if the women decide to do pull-ups they have to do fewerç than men do. men between the ages of 24 and 35, 23 pull-ups which is a ton more than i could do. women in the same age group 10. there is a catch. if you choose pushup. 70 out of 100. pull-ups 100. those points can effect future promotions but again they do not effect the nature of the wars that the marine corps has to fight. marine corps study found just 45% of women in boot camp can complete three pull-ups you get the point. new politically correct version of baby it s cold outside. two people behind the song are here. stay tuned baby i m cool with that this evening has been
score perfect because so few passed, the marines will let them choose to hang on the bar for 15 seconds and pass without doing any pull ups. wide grip works best for you. reporter: they admit pull ups are better than the flexed arm hang elicits little muscle strength for military tasks such as pulling yourself over obstacles and other equipment. she is a former marine corps officer who commanded troops in afghanistan. could you do three pull ups? at one point, i could do fife. the first one took the longest to get to. reporter: women have to learn how to do a pull up. experiment with different techniques. you figure out what other exercises to do. critics say the push over pull ups is part of a bigger problem, pressure from the white house to make the military