How one awesome woman lifts more with one hand than many do with two
In the gym, Jacqueline Pryndik is like anybody else. Sweating. Grunting. Succeeding. “I enjoy the challenges my gym life has to offer,” Pryndik says. “I’m no different than the next person struggling for the last rep.” Even so, there was a time when it was difficult for Pryndik to tie her shoes and zip up her coat, much less lift a 20-pound dumbbell. Pryndik, a professional caregiver who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, was born without fingers on her right hand. Fetal alcohol syndrome thwarted her skeletal development in the womb As a result Pryndik’s hand stops just past her...