Hot Chicks Doing Pull-Ups: KrisFit

After I posted the first "Hot Chicks" video, I received a note from Kristopher Germain, CrossFit Certified Level I Trainer, owner of KrisFit and a recently approved CrossFit affiliate. Kris wrote, in part:

"I really love training women - the soccer mom and the weekend warrior, the ex-athlete who's thirty but thinks she is too "old" to be exceptionally fit. Women are strong, so much stronger than anyone tells them. Where the crap did the partial push-up come from? Who thought women were so weak they couldn't learn to do a strict push-up? Women training with me reach "bad-ass benchmarks" by getting real push-ups and real pull-ups. They're at the on-ramp to bad-ass with one push up and one pull up; and reach authentic bad-ass status if they can do 20 strict push-ups and 5 dead hang pull-ups.

I literally point all my women to your site so that they understand you can be an authentic bad-ass in the gym, with iron and bumper plates, and clouds of chalk hanging in the air, but still be hot and feminine. Which leads me into my next point... I've got bad-ass hot chicks doing pull-ups!! I've got one post with my client Randi getting 5 pulls for the first time, and today I filmed two other clients, Maria (first time getting 4) and Roxy (first time getting 5). Let me know if you would be interested in showcasing my girls in your celebration of chicks and pull-ups."

Hells, yes, I am interested in featuring your ladies! For one, these are some strong women, going for some lofty strength goals. But more importantly, I love meeting trainers and affiliate owners who are so dedicated to getting their women strong, fit and confident in their abilities. So it would be my pleasure to introduce you to the Women of KrisFit in this week's edition of "Hot Chicks". From the KrisFit blog:

Grinding out a Goal

We’re back!!! And this video is long overdue. Early in December, Randi Barnes announced that she was tired of sitting on a pull up personal best of 4. She set a goal of getting that 5th rep before the new year. Cut to two weeks later…



Girls Are Strong.

This post is going to be part of an ever expanding page that I am creating for this site. It will be dedicated to functional movements performed with a prejudice for strength and control, throughout a full range of motion. You will not see a partial push up. We will award strength, power, intensity and grace.

Girls are strong. Most of them just don’t know it.

We’re going to show you some who do.



And finally, though she's not doing pull-ups, check out KrisFit's Jenny Atkinson, cranking out 20 strict push-ups and pulling a 185# deadlift PR... on her birthday, no less. Rock on, sister.