| OttoniBastos said: Ok i didn't want to necrobump this thread but for those thinking that political pressure wouldn't lower the standards to get in the army: Basically women were mostly failing at passing through upperbody tests(specially the pullups) and thus they lower the standards to maximize the number of girls in the army and avoid bad PR. |
Gallant offered encouragement for women who have never trained their body to do a pullup. She pointed to “zero to 20-plus,” a pullup program created by Maj. Misty Posey that was posted on the Marine Corps’ official website in February. The 55-year-old colonel went from zero to 17 pullups in less than one year, and is still going strong.
“It is very doable for women to do pullups,” Gallant said. “Most women can get their first pullup after about two weeks of being on the program. I worked on them for about half an hour in the morning and about 10 to 15 minutes in the evening. Once I got my first one, they came pretty quick after that. Once they get up to 10, it's a piece of cake to maintain it.”
I guess you forgot to read the part above. If trained, they can do it, even after 50+ years old.
