Army Cadet vs. 10 Year-Old Gymnast

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We think of our armed forces as the fittest men and women in the world but they can still be surprised by an undiscovered talent! At a fundraiser for the Active Heroes Foundation in North Carolina on September 6, young cadets went up against onlookers in fitness challenges. Kimberly Munley, the US army sergeant who confronted the Fort Hood gunman in November 2009, met a girl who she called her new hero. This little girl was more than a match for one of the cadets at push ups, and she received plenty of cheers for her effort.

According to her mom on FB:

This is my 10 year old daughter Kaylyn. Thank you all for your kind remakes. She trains at Port City Gymnastics and is testing to be on the US Jr. Olympic Nation[al] Team in October. She is truly amazing on the inside and out!

I can’t believe some YouTube commenters are whining and making excuses on behalf of the JROTC cadet over form, type of push-up, body weight….one doofus even challenged, ” I’d like to see who’s beating who if they fight taliban”. For realz?!

Pound for pound, gymnasts are some of the strongest athletes on the planet. And what’s being described as a “proper push-up” with elbows in, I’m pretty sure she, like most gymnasts, do it that way on a regular basis. Elbows in concentrates the workload on the triceps over chest, and it’s one way that gymnasts develop planche strength (leaning further and further forward).

Here’s Brandon Wynn:

Example of planche push-ups:

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Which one can pick up a 100 pound bag of sand and toss it 5 feet?

Seriously — the girl is great – good going for her — but that is no bottom line — apples and walnuts!

In basic I knew a guy who weighed about 120 — two thirds me — he could always max out the physical test at 500 points while the top I ever got was around 410! — Next day after one of these tests that he maxed — we went on 8 mile hike to boonies with full field gear — I ended up carrying more than half his stuff for him for the last 3-4 miles!

As long as I can pull myself up out of bed, I figure I’m in good enough shape for the rest of the day.

Many years ago, a professional boxer was going to mimic his young daughter for the day. I think she was around 3. The boxer lasted only a few hours, and he was done.

Nature has it backwards. The young shouldn’t get all the extra energy. It should be saved for old age, when we will actually NEED it.

I laughed and laughed at the video. (Someone was doing push-ups from his knees.) Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away, I was a push up champ and chin up champ, one hand two hands, or standing on my hands. In the Marines on Parris Island or in college, with the wrestling team or the football team, it didn’t matter, I was a machine. Now, I am an old man with silly memories, but my son was a gymnast. What a discipline! Controlled strength, with balance and precision movements, my goodness. I have respect for the work that goes into making a gymnast. We don’t get a second chance, but I would have liked to have had the chance to try that sport.

Thanks Word

@Skook: #3
Many years ago I heard of a 90 something year old woman who had arthritis really bad. She decided to work it off with exercise. It worked, and she eventually became a cheerleader. She could do most of the stuff young cheerleaders do. You could become the oldest gymnast alive.

That was great! A little fun ‘competition’ never hurt anyone. It builds character!

A few years ago I decided to go to a really beautiful park where I live, which has an exercise trail with exercise ‘stations’ and you do each exercise posted at each station. One station has parallel bars and I wanted to strengthen my arms. I have to admit it was hard holding my own dead weight up. I was wearing gloves at the time, it was fall and it was chilly.

I stopped going when it snowed then shortly after I started having ‘trouble’ with my fingers. I thought I was getting early arthritis I really didn’t know what it was. My fingers just kept getting ‘stuck’. Scared the hell out of me!

I went to a doctor specializing in the hands and found I had… trigger finger. This is actually caused when the tendons in the palms of the hands, just below the fingers have become inflamed and stressed, they don’t functioning properly and they are important to open and close your fingers as in a fist. I could not imagine how this happened. After some thought, and.. how the heck can this happen, I realized it could have been when I was trying to ‘get in shape’ and strengthening my arms by using the parallel bars…Its the only conclusion I could come up with. That was the only thing I was doing at the time… Sheesh!

I wound up getting painful steroid shots in my fingers for months. Shots helped a lot but it still reoccurs in my ring fingers. So much for trying to ‘get into shape’! Right? and…Sheesh! again!

Funny, I had no problem doing it in High School – lol

I will start again in the fall but I think I will bypass those dam bars. lol.

#2 You said –

“Nature has it backwards. The young shouldn’t get all the extra energy. It should be saved for old age, when we will actually NEED it. “

I promised myself I would never get old. -lol

@Smorgasbord: Thanks for the laugh and the inspiration. I think I will start getting in shape, one last time.

@FAITH7: #7

I promised myself I would never get old. -lol

I coined a phrase: “You grow old from the top down. Keep the top young, and the rest of the body will follow.” I too decided a long time ago to stay as young as I can. So far it has worked, because when people who want to guess my age, I tell them to add 10 years, and they still guess too young.

One thing that helped is that most of my jobs involved physical labor of some kind. I’ve retired now, and I don’t exercise much, and the weight is gaining a little each year. I don’t intend to buy bigger clothes. I will HAVE to exercise more.

#8 –
Wow! Word. If only I ‘could’ do a swing to a handstand…it’s good to challenge yourself and get a ‘win’ isn’t it?

Yes. Very strange. Only conclusion I can think of. I think the bars are smaller in circumference than a set of ‘real’ parallel or non-parallel bars and don’t have the flexibility or ‘give’ that real ones would have, the park ones are rather rigid.

Hey, I was just happy to find out it wasn’t pre -arthritis, arthritis. lol.

#10 – Always a little ego pump when people can’t correctly guess your age and guess a lot younger – lol

Sadly I have a ways to go before I get to retire. Some people who retire don’t know what to do with themselves, me ? – I have tons I could do. I do hope you are enjoying it.

You say – “I will HAVE to exercise more. ”

I know the first step in getting even a light exercise program together for yourself is always hard.
You have to make it a routine and not let ‘other things’ deviate you from it. (Hard!!) – lol.
Start slow and build up…walking, and brisk walking is a good start. Even this helps..a lot.

@FAITH7: #12

Sadly I have a ways to go before I get to retire. Some people who retire don’t know what to do with themselves, me ? – I have tons I could do. I do hope you are enjoying it.

When people ask me what I do since I retired, I tell them I do what I want to do, and if I don’t want to do anything, that’s what I do.

There is a really nice bike trail a short bike ride from me, and I have been on it. I have a Total Gym, and it is a great exercise machine for about $200, but there isn’t anybody at home to ENCOURAGE me to get on it. I intend to do more than I have been. I’m one of those who will work myself to death for others, but don’t do much for myself.

I just moved to another town, and when I get more involved in the community, I should be FORCED to get more exercise than I am now. I also very seldom take elevators. I usually only have to go up 2-4 floors.

@Smorgasbord: I’m right there with you. The day I don’t have the strength to use a bottle opener, I’m done for.

@UpChuck.Liberals: #14
I’m a non-drinker, but I thought the bottles had screw-off caps. Are you still using a bottle opener on them?

@Wordsmith: Any plans to compete in American Ninja Warrior? : )
Those folks have to have just about everything on their side: strength, endurance, speed, and they have to think.