The Strength and Fitness Instructor By M.C. A strong woman teaches her female university students how to gain strength, fitness and self-confidence. 1) The introduction Ann Armstrong (yes that's her real name, appropriately) lay on her back on the bench, reached up and wrapped her strong hands around the barbell that was resting on the stand directly above her head. Then she looked at the young female university athletes in the strength and fitness class that she teaches who were all gathered around her, smiled and said, "This is what fifteen years of training with weights can do for a woman." She then proceeded to raise the 260 pound weight (118 kilograms) off the stand and do ten repetitions up and down before returning the barbell to its place. Such was the confidence that she had in her abilities, the muscular woman didn't even require the assistance of a single potter! When Ann saw the surprised looks that the students of her new class had on their faces after she finished, she grinned, "I just wanted to show you girls what the female body is capable of - providing she applies herself that is. This concludes our first lesson of the new school year. I'll see you all back here tomorrow afternoon at three - and be prepared for a good workout." 2) The Following Afternoon The next day at three P.M. as the female athletes entered the weight room for her strength and fitness lesson, Ann couldn't help but notice that many of them had despondent looks on their faces - and a few of them even looked downright angry. "What seems to be the matter girls?" she asked them. "It's those stupid jocks on the football team," Janet, one of Ann's students, replied. "They were standing just outside their weight room (the men's and women's weight rooms were located adjacent to each other on the university's campus) and making snide, chauvinistic remarks about us doing weight training as we walked by. Isn't there something that the university can do about this Ms. Armstrong? I mean that's downright insulting to us when all we want to do is get in good shape before our season starts. So what if we females have some muscle? What's it to them? Why should we have to endure their insults?" Ann sighed. "I've spoken the Coach Roberts (the university's head football coach) before about how some of his football players have behaved towards the females of my class last semester when this problem first came up. I've also spoken to the university's administrators in the athletic department and politely asked them to please do something about it. But it seems that nobody in the university wants to take up the matter seriously." Ann then paused before adding, "So it looks like it's up to me to take care of this situation." "You Ms. Armstrong?" Janet asked; surprised. "What can you do about this? I mean we can all see that you're very strong (Ann's biceps measure sixteen inches around when she flexes them), and we've heard that you're also something of a martial arts expert (Ann holds black belts in both tai-kwon-do and ju-jitsu). But Ms. Armstrong, these are big, strong, tough football players; and they're led by Bill Morgan who's probably the biggest and strongest guy on the entire team." Ann's response was to simply smile and say, "What can I do about it Janet? Well, why don't we all go outside and you can see for yourselves what I can do about it." Ann tied her long, pretty blond hair back into a ponytail before leading her class out of the women's weight room and over to the men's where Bill and some of his teammates were still mulling around outside. 3) The Confrontation Without showing even the slightest trace of fear, Ann approached the large, strong college football star and his friends. "I warned you about harassing the girls of my strength and fitness class last semester; didn't I Bill? But it seems that you either didn't hear me or understood what I said. And since neither your coach nor anyone else in the university seems to want to do anything about it, it looks like I'm the one that's going to have to. But before I do, I'm going to give you one more chance. If you apologize to the girls of my class now and promise not to harass them anymore, I'll let you off with just a warning. But if you don't - SMACK! (Ann pounded her right fist hard into her left palm). Did I make myself clear tough guy?" Ann knew that she was baiting Bill now - that by challenging him publicly she was forcing the large football star to either accept her challenge or back down and risk losing face in front of both his friends as well as the female athletes of her class that were watching. And Ann also knew that that was something the large, strong and proud college football star could never accept. But she also felt exasperated by the total indifference that both the football coach as well as the athletic department's administrators had displayed regarding her legitimate complaints about the verbal abuse that Bill and his teammates were subjecting her female students to. So, if it was up to her to teach these chauvinistic jocks a lesson in manners, then so be it. The sight of this beautiful blond woman - all five feet, six inches and 145 pounds of her - confronting the six foot, five inch, 265 pound offensive right tackle in front of several of his teammates must have struck the crowd of university students that were now beginning to gather around the scene as somewhat surreal. For as strong as Ann appeared to be, what chance could she possibly have against Bill in a fair fight? "She is, after all, just a woman," they must have been thinking to themselves. "What can she do?" Well, they were all about to find out. "We'll see about that you Bitch!" Bill Barked out. "My, my, what a potty mouth you have there Billy," Ann calmly responded. "It looks like I really do need to teach you a lesson in manners; don't I?" Ann looked over at her students and said, "Pay close attention now girls as I demonstrate how a strong and confident woman deals with a situation like this." 4) The Fight CRACK! With her open right hand, Ann slapped the arrogant, macho athlete hard across his face. Enraged now, Bill lashed out and threw a wild right hook at her. But the experienced martial arts expert deftly ducked under his errant punch and began to pepper Bill's now exposed mid-section with a rapid series of lefts and rights from her rock-hard fists. "A little soft in the tummy I see Billy?" the muscular blond teased as she drove her fists deep into her much larger opponent's stomach. "Maybe you should enroll in my strength and fitness class too so I can toughen you up a bit before the football season begins." POW! And with a solid right uppercut to his jaw, Ann sent the 265 pound university football star sprawling on the ground. "I definitely think that you could benefit from some of my training techniques Billy. After all, look how easily I just put you down." To emphasize her point as well as to further rub it in, Ann untied her ponytail, fluffed up her long, pretty blond hair and smiled down at him. "How do you ever expect to be drafted by an NFL team if little ole me can knock you down so easily Billy?" Bill, completely overcome with rage now, rose to his feet and charged towards her with his strong, muscular arms wide apart; planning to overpower the much smaller woman by using his sheer brute strength. But not to worry, because the nimble woman was prepared for this - in fact that's exactly what Ann was expecting Bill to do. Grabbing one of his outstretched arms with hers, Ann, in a perfectly executed maneuver (remember, she holds a black belt in ju-jitsu), used her male opponent's strength and momentum against him and flipped Bill over so that he wound up lying on his back on the ground again. While she waited for the stunned football star to get up, Ann put her hands on her hips and smiled at her class. "You see girls, even though Bill may be both larger and stronger than I am, his arrogance and overconfidence makes him vulnerable to my superior fighting skills." WHAM! Before Bill could completely get back to his feet, Ann sent him down again with a hard roundhouse kick to the side of his face; then she casually turned her attention back to her students. "He thinks that being a big, strong guy is all he needs to overpower me. But as you can clearly see, that was a serious tactical mistake on his part." WHACK!� Ann put Bill down once again with another hard kick from her board breaking, tai-kwon-do trained right foot. "And now he's paying the price for it." As the girls in Ann's class watched this scene with both stunned amazement and admiration, Bill's football teammates were - for obvious reasons - somewhat less than enthralled in watching one of the stars of their team getting his ass kicked so easily by this much smaller female. Some of them even appeared to be getting ready to intervene on Bill's behalf. Anticipating this, the muscular woman turned to face them and, in a strong, stern tone of voice, said, "Unless you boys want me to give you the same beating that I'm giving your friend Billy here, don't you dare come any closer!" Maybe it was the power of the way Ann issued her warning, or perhaps it was the ease in which Ann had dispatched the strongest and toughest guy on their team, but for whatever the reason, Bill's teammates heeded Ann's warning and remained where they were. Imagine: several big, strong and tough university football players were literally being frozen in place by just one woman! After she flattened Bill once more with yet another solid kick to his head - and it was obvious that he wouldn't be getting up on his own this time - Ann put her right foot on the battered man's large chest, calmly fluffed up her beautiful blond hair again (she always delights in rubbing in the fact to her male opponents that they were beaten up by a woman), smiled and gave the thumbs-up sign to her now cheering female students. "So you see girls, this is what a fit and well-trained woman can do when she's been properly trained. And in my class over the course of the next several months, I will teach you how to tap into the inner strength that all females have within them. That way you too can become strong and confident women. Something which this world is definitely in need of." Ann looked down at the badly beaten Bill lying on the ground beneath her (she still had her right foot firmly planted on his chest). Then she put her hands on her hips and turned towards his stunned teammates. "Well I hope you boys learned your lesson here today - leave the girls of my class alone! Because if I ever hear of either you or any of the other members on your team bothering them again, then the next time I have to teach someone a lesson, I guarantee that I won't be quite as gentle as I was with Bill just now (several of the players admitted later that they felt shivers go down their spines when they heard her say this). I hope that you all understood what I just said - for your sakes that is." Ann then turned to the students of her class. "O.K. girls, I guess my work here is done. I don't think that these boys will be bothering any of you anymore. But if they do, then please let me know and I'll take care of it. Now, if you girls thought that this would make for an easier workout for you today, then you obviously don't know me very well. We still have a good workout ahead of us so let's get going." And with that, the strong, tough female strength and fitness instructor led her class back into the women's weight room for their afternoon workout. 5) On Month Later Ann circulated through the women's weight room overseeing both the female (as well as male now) athletes that were participating in her strength and fitness class. And as they went through the daily afternoon workout regimen that she had designed for them, the muscular woman couldn't help but be impressed by the tremendous progress that her female students had made in just the month since she began to train them. They were stronger, in much better shape and appeared to have far more confidence in themselves than they had when they began her class; and they all knew it. Sure Ann was hard on them, but they all responded as athletes should - they rose to the challenge. Perhaps it was because they witnessed how easily she was able to beat up the strongest and toughest guy on the university's football team that inspired the girls to train harder - so that one day they could be like her. Or maybe they just wanted to be strong and confident females like she is. But for whatever the reason, Ann could clearly see how the female athletes in her class were literally transforming themselves right before her eyes. "How's it going Billy?" Ann asked the large, strong football player who was lying on the bench in front of her. "Have you matched my bench press weights yet?" He slowly shook his head from side-to-side; indicating no. "Well I guess that means that you're simply not trying hard enough there big boy." Ann winked over at Janet who was bench pressing near-by and was now Bill's girlfriend. "I think that I need to push Bill a bit harder so that he can reach his full potential. What do you say to that, Janet?" "Probably Ms. Armstrong. But don't push him too much. After all, he's just a guy (smirk)." Ann looked around at the other members of Coach Robert's football team that had recently began to take her class. "I appears the public beating that I gave Bill last month proved to be a great recruiting tool," Ann thought to herself. Then she added with a giggle, "I should beat up football players more often; tee, hee, hee." Shortly after she battered and humiliated his star football player, Ann had a rather serious discussion with Coach Roberts - so serious that it took nearly a week for the tough football coach's welts and bruises to heal afterwards (Ann can be quite emphatic when she puts her mind - and her fists - to something). "It looks like your football players are beginning to get my message Mr. Roberts - that strength and conditioning helps. Your boys seem to be progressing nicely." Then she added with a thinly disguised trace of sarcasm, "Maybe this year your team will finally manage to have a decent record for a change." Giggles could be heard from the female athletes throughout the weight room when she said this. After her strength and fitness class concluded, Ann's female athletes grabbed their football playing boyfriends firmly by the hand, led them out of the weight room and back to the student apartments that they now shared for a little "Afternoon Delight." Ann, not one to be outdone by her students, lifted Coach Richards up over her shoulder (he was now her boyfriend too) and carried him back to her apartment. After all, why should she miss out on all the fun? 6) Epilogue That season Coach Roberts' football team lost only two games. It was the best record that the university's football team had in over twenty years. In addition to that, all the female athletes that Ann trained performed far above anything that they had ever dreamed of accomplishing before - especially in the track and field events that required strength such as the shot put, discus and javelin throws where her "girls" set NCAA records. But what made the beautiful and muscular strength and fitness instructor most proud was to see how, through her guidance, Ann was able to transform a group of somewhat insecure and shy female university students into strong, confident women - women who were ready to take on the world on their terms.