Don't worry, I bend my legs all of the time. Again, work on lat pull-downs and do more pull-ups and you should be alright.
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so disappointed- did worse after a month of pt
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Don't worry, I bend my legs all of the time. Again, work on lat pull-downs and do more pull-ups and you should be alright.
Also, if you can find an assisted pullup machine in a gym that could help you with transitioning to legitimate pullups. You can adjust what percentage of your body weight you are pulling up and after some training you can work up to doing an unassisted one.
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A bit off topic, but has anyone tried/purchased the Perfect Pullup machine?
spot on! if you're training distance, you're turning your fast-twitch muscle fibers (those used for short bursts of activitiy) into slow-twitch fibers (used for endurance runs). as spekkio said, which isn't going to help your shorter run time.
Not exactly. You have three types of muscle fibers.
Fast twitch (Type IIb), slow twitch (Type I), and then another type which is a mix of both (Type IIa). The third type (Type IIa) is the one that can be modified into more of a fast or slow twitch.
But yes, your point is still valid. Although 1.5 isn't really a sprint, nor is it distance. The bottom line is that it's best to do a lot of runs 3-4 miles, and mix in sprinting with that. Time should come down regardless. Running is mostly mental, and for me the mental part for me becomes a lot easier when I've been running 3-4 and then get tested on 1.5. The shorter distance allows me, mentally, to push MUCH harder than I would otherwise and blast the 1.5.
Stick with it! I can't speak specifically to VMI (USNA '02), but staying on the women's cross-country team at Navy was one of the best things I could have done my first year. I ended up quitting later on that spring when I decided I really didn't want to be a Div-I athlete, but for that first semester especially, being able to get off base for a run and be with people whose interest at the time was running and being a team, rather than harrassing me, was great. Good Luck!
vulcanx
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rofl ... amen
the point actually was 9:19 ==> month of hard training ==> 10:14 bad. :icon_tong but if 14:00 ==> month of tv and video games ==> 10:14, then good of course LOL!
THAT WOMAN? SCARES THE HELL OUT OF ME!!!
i have a classmate with upper arms like the woman in the pic.
my new classmate did something like 14 straight pullups on the first vmi fitness test this summer. (me <== 2 now) fortunately, i can outrun her haha. 
You guys are aware that WOMAN is actually Tony Little... a man, right?
They're close enough....
Seriously. Looked like a dude to me.