Indigenous Ability

How’s this for a full life? ·         Hugh Glass, if you saw the film The Revenant , or read the book by Michael Punke or were already familiar with this mountain man who survived a tussle with a bear to crawl an injured 300 miles through hostile territory and still put more years in front of him. ·         Pre-Legendary Bear Attack he… ·         Was a sailor who was captured by Jean the “Gentleman Pirate of Barataria” Lafitte and forced to become a pirate for a spell. ·         He and a shipmate eventually jumped ship off the coast of Texas and swam to shore. ·         End of the adventure? Not quite. ·         The two ex-pirates were then captured by the Pawnee. They endured well enough to be adopted by the tribe where Glass accrued much of his survival...

So, how many pull-ups can you do before you have to come off of the bar? How about one-arm pull-ups, can you do even one with zero assist from the free-hand? Prior to the 20 th Century the record for one-arm pull-ups was 12 by an Englishman named Cutler performed in 1878. Flash-Forward to 1918, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mermann’s Gym, a gathering place for old-school gymnasts and physical culturists. Veteran circus-performer Lillian Leitzel arrives at Mermann’s to refine some work with some acrobats. Leitzel was a noted aerialist [and notorious for her fierce competitive spirit and less than becoming temper.] She causally lets it drop that she could smash the one-arm chin-up record. Asked to put proof to her claims she steps up to the bar, places her left hand behind her back, grips the bar with her right and knocks out 27 reps. That not good enough? Well, how’s this? She comes off the bar, shakes it out and then grabs it with her left hand and hits 19 reps. ...