As you all know I am working this month to master the cross-knee release, for all intents and purposes a pretty easy skill.  If you watched the videos I have posted you can see that I have everything dialed in except I can’t seem to let go of the pole. I am not scared of falling.  I am not scared that my knee will release.  What I am scared of is that I will snap my tibia and fibula…my leg bones.

Many years ago, I had a group of ladies that trained with me to get stronger and fitter. There were 3 of them.  All very wealthy women.  They trained 3 days a week.  Of the three, two had a lifelong passion with fitness and weight training.  The other one was very new to it.  This caused me to have to modify almost everything to fit her abilities.  There were days where she would complain so much that I had to back everything down to where she was doing barely anything, but that seemed fine to her so we rolled on.

One day, when she was particularly whiney, she fairly wailed to me: “Is it ever going to NOT hurt”