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Oct. 29th, 2017 07:39 amI've been working with a personal trainer for eleven months. (If you're an equestrian in the Madison area, she's RideTrainElite Rider Fitness Coaching, and she's awesome.) Most of it I, obviously, don't care to talk about, but I did want to post this picture as proof that, yes, people with biologically female bodies, we can have upper body strength. Maybe not as much as a biologically male body, but "not as much" doesn't equal "zero."
I think Gen X women (biological females) were done a great disservice by the Presidential Fitness Tests, which implied strongly that because women didn't have as much upper body strength as men, there was no point in their trying to DEVELOP upper body strength, instead of the logical conclusion that women need to work HARDER at developing upper body strength. Because it's not like we CAN'T.
Hence this picture:
I think Gen X women (biological females) were done a great disservice by the Presidential Fitness Tests, which implied strongly that because women didn't have as much upper body strength as men, there was no point in their trying to DEVELOP upper body strength, instead of the logical conclusion that women need to work HARDER at developing upper body strength. Because it's not like we CAN'T.
Hence this picture:
