[Dan the Man]

This is how I remember it. I apologize because it is a bit long.

It was about 15 years ago (I was 26) and on the business trip in Hawaii.
I had developed a muscular torso so I would try not to miss a work out.

I was in the hotel gym (it had a very nice full weight room) at about 9pm. I was doing my typical bench press, arm curls and shoulder press exercises when 4 girls about 20-22 came into the gym. They went straight for the squat rack. They all looked in great shape so I found myself taking a peek in their direction from time to time. I noticed they were doing a squat and hold at the bottom kind of exercise with about 155 pounds. I was impressed. Squats were something I had never tried. It was hard not to notice they had nicely developed legs. The girls would look over my way sometimes too. For the most part I just kept to my workout.

After about 20 minutes one of the girls came over to the universal bench press machine near me and started to do a few reps with what looked like 60 pounds. When she finished she got up smiling and said something like “that’s bad, I am not very good at this one”. I replied something like “No that’s not bad at all”. A few minutes later all four girls were giving the universal a go. They all seemed to have similar upper body strength. They noticed me doing my last bench press set. The first girl (talkative one) said to me “wow, 245 that’s like four times more than what I can lift”. “How much can you do squat. I did not know what to say. I told them "I don’t do squats, I use the leg press”. (I spent most of my work out on my upper body). The talkative girl said they do squats for soccer. They were all on a women’s college team and were in Hawaii for a tournament. We continued chatting about 5 minutes then they went back to the squat rack for another set then left. I finished up with a quick stationary bike ride and went to the changing room to use the outside pool.

I was doing laps for about 10 minutes when the same four girls came walking across the pool deck and got into the hot tub. I noticed that 3 of the 4 were looking hot in bikini’s, the forth was a bit heavier but not bad wearing a high cut one piece.

I wanted to warm up and relax in the hot tub so after another 5 minutes in the pool I went to the tub.

I noticed the girls were at the narrow part of the hot tub doing what looked like some kind of leg pushing contest. I said hello again, they were still very friendly and we started small talk. I asked them what was that they were doing. The talkative girl told me it was a kind of leg wrestling. The talkative girl asked me to join in”. I believe I looked hesitant. The one piece girl said with a smile something to the effect “your upper body is a lot stronger but we might just beat you at this”. I think they could tell I was little reluctant so they all encourage me to give it a try.

The one piece girl and another demonstrated how it worked and then they did it for real. It took about 10 seconds for the one piece girl to over power the other. It was a little intimidating and I remember thinking what did I get myself into.

The talkative girl started to show me what to do and we practiced together. Basically, you put your backs against the wall and go feet to feet. The winner is the one who can push the opponent’s thighs into their chest. It felt like she had good power and I was quietly hoping she was using most of hers in the practice. The thought ran though my head that I could loose to these girls. It was obvious that they had done this before.

They already knew the one piece girl was the strongest so they set me up against her. This soccer player girl pushed my legs into my chest in less than 3 seconds. The four girls were hooping it up at my expense (in a nice way). I was embarrassed and surprised she beat me that quick. I should not have been because she had one heck of a set of legs on her. I said that I should get a rematch because I was not expecting such power (in reality she just over powered me). The one piece girl said with a smile, “you can have a rematch if you beat the other girls”. The talkative girl wanted to wrestle me next.

This time I started to gain the advantage. I was slowly pushing her in but after about 10 seconds she seemed to kick it into another gear. I could hear the other girls cheering their team mate on. I started to fade under her power. I could tell she knew she had me and for some reason she seemed to ease up a bit when she got me to the three quarter point. My legs were starting to get tried and eventually gave out in what seemed like 2 minutes but was likely only 40 or 50 seconds of intense effort. There I was pinned with my thighs at my chest and her basically straight legged. It was a humiliating position to be in. Crap, I was 0 for 2. I was hoping no one else would come around. The weakest girl now wanted to leg wrestle me. I wanted to be a good sport so I said I would after a rest. Part of me just wanted to leave but I kind of liked these girls.

I stood up to stretch my legs. The one piece girl gave me a friendly smile then made comments something like “your legs may be no match for us girls but honey your upper body is still hot” (she was a colored girl with spunk). “Relax your upper body muscles; they are so tense they are popping out”. “It looks hot honey but they can’t help you”. Not exact but you get the point. She was kidding around with me. I didn’t know what to say so I just remember smiling back. I think she liked me because I was seemingly taking it well and taking my beating.

The talkative girl tried to make me feel better but my male ego was already silently wounded and I need to win this one. I got the initial upper hand and was pushing her in but slowly my progress came to a halt. I almost had her. Fatigue was setting in again and I began to fade. I could see it in her face that she was giving it all she had and so was I. I was now loosing ground. I could not stop her momentum. She was going to pin my thighs to my chest so I bailed out to the side. All four simply had more leg power and stamina then me. Just 45 minutes earlier they commented on how strong I was and now I felt really defeated and weak. At that point I felt this was my most embarrassing moment in life.

She was all smiles and got hi 5’s from the other girls. They all gave me the high 5’s too and told me I was I great sport.

Believe me I put more attention into my leg training after that.

The serendipity was I could tell that 3 of the 4 four girls were still really interested in me. I was mostly flirting with the talkative girl and we went out as a group a few times while in Hawaii. As it turned out I started a long distance relationship with the talkative girl. She eventually moved to my city.

[Stan]

Well, it would have been rude not to let them win.
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[Dan the Man]

Unfortunately, they could tell I was giving it everything I had so I could not use that one. Found out those girls could squat like 185 (weakest girl) to (235 strongest girl). They had a serious training program. Guessing, I could maybe do 185 at the time but did not have the conditioning they had. Considering that I could Bench 275 and Squat only 185... embarrassing. Served me right for spending all my time on the upper body and very little on my legs. It was a good wake up call. Oh yeh, turns out she did back it down a notch for me.