She fuckin looks like John Boy from The Waltons <| sep |> I really don ' t understand why the majority of powerlifters neglect flexibility , core , and stability work as much as they do . I find a lot of people in this community that are 100 % convinced that they could never be flexible . I mean , people say to me all the time I could never be flexible like you . That is EXACTLY like saying I could never be strong like you . I mean yeah , if you never train strength then you won ' t be strong , and if you never train flexibility you will never be flexible . I don ' t get why that is so hard to understand . I was not born being able to touch my toes to my head , and Jen Thompson was not born being able to bench 314 . We both worked our asses off to get there . Sorry for the rant , I just get really frustrated when people won ' t even try because they think they could never do it . That isn ' t a good mindset to have as a powerlifter . You should be thinking hey , I might fail , but let ' s try anyway . And if I fail , I ' ll try again . And again . And again . Progress only comes through repeated failure .