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Miko walked into the weight room. He threw his gym bag in a corner. He'd showered since the gym and now wore balck basketball shorts and a sleeveless blue shirt. He had on Asics' and his hair was tied back.
He started with a box squat, then hex bar. It was an easier day for him; yesterday he'd worked himself so hard that this morning he'd fallen over getting out of bed. Then he did bench press and leg press. He had worked up a sweat already, and finally decided to put on music. Programming his iPod to the radio, Miko put on Flogging Molly'sWhat's Left the Flag.
Miko went over to a bar and began doing pull ups, when he heard the door open during the slower tempo beginning.
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Maiya had gone to the gym she had found Miko at earlier and found that he wasn't there so she had to go find him elsewhere. she had finally made it do a door that had music coming out of it and it sounded like Flogging Molly...He must have been in there.
She opened the door slowly and was met by different machines that looked that they would fall on you and crush you with one wrong move. She looked around some more and saw Miko hanging from the pull up bar.
She smiled and walked into the room only to walk into a mirror. She glared at the mirror while holding her face. Stupid mirror. Evil evil mirror. Evil.
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
The only lifeguard who carries a retractable trident
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Miko did another pull up and then hung there. He just couldn't pull himself up again. Instead, he let go with one hand and twisted himself around to see Maiya. Then he dropped down to the floor.
"How's it going? Got those generals down?" Miko asked, walking over to her. He walked to an open spot. "We should stretch out first," he said.
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Maiya walked over to the open area still glaring at the mirror that she had walked in to. Evil thing. "Yes I got it down...or as down as I can get it. By tommorw I'll probably have forgotten it all..." she said. She really did hate that about her mutation. She was lucky to remember what classes to go to and at what times.
"Stretching? Okay! I like stetching." And with that Maiya began to stretch. First she did a horizontal split followed by laying down in the split. If Maiya was one thing she was extremely flexible.
She then stretched each of her legs by touching her toes and doing the butterfly.
The next thing she did was stand up and bend backwards touching her heels. Often she was told she was a freak for how flexible she was. Well she had to be to swim well and turn into all the different animals she did.
She bent forward and touched the floor without bending her knees. There was no need for her to do so. She was often told that her body was perfectly flexible.
She continued to flex her body not having any trouble at all. They only problem she would have would be the weight lift. She was flexible but not strong. This was going to be interesting.
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
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Miko watched as Maiya did stretch after stretch. "Wow... You're flexible," he said, bluntly. He was impressed. She had gone right into fairly complex stretches instantly. There was just one problem.
"But, um... You are going to want to stretch out your arms. You'll be using them most." Upon saying this, Miko brought his right hand behind his head and pulled on the elbow. He counted slowly to ten in his head, and then did the same with the other arm. He'd already stretched, he was just trying to give her an idea of a stretch to do.
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"Right...sorry..." she blushed while smiling. He was right she was going to need to flex her arms. So she started to flex her arms. She did what he did. She streched her arms with different types of streches and finally did complex posses with her arms. Twisting them across her back as if she was in a strait jacket and many others.
"So...what are we doing first...?" she asked when she was done.
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
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"Alright, we're gonna start with the block bench," he said, stepping over to the bench press. "Basically, it's a way to use more weight than you normally would on the benCH PREss, but you don't go as far so it's easier." Miko layed down on the bench and pulled out a small 4 by 4 chunk of wood, which he layed on his chest. Then he grabbed the bar, empty, only 45 pounds, and brought it down onto the block and then up and down again, then back onto the rack. "Your turn," he said, getting up. Now they'd see what she had.
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Maiya watched what he did. She could feel little butterflies fluttering about in her belly. She was so nervous. She knew she was weak and could only lift ninty pounds. It was just the very idea of lifting something in front of someone.
"Um...o-okay..." She really didn't want to do it. Not with him watching. She went over to the bench press and looked at it then at him.
She gently picked up the piece of wood careful of her webs and lay down on the bench press she looked up at Miko with the most nervous expresion her face.
Okay...relax...just pretend he's not there...yeah that'll work...
With a sigh she closed her eyes and did what he did with out a problem.
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
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Miko watched her, standing behind the bench in position to catch it if anything went wrong. He smiled when she started benching. "Great, you're doing fine," he said. Miko thought about it. This would work.
"Okay, we're doing weight training here, but that's not always gonna mean seeing how heavy you can go. Sometimes, it is how long you can go." Miko listened as the song changed to a Coheed track. He had a playlist of workout songs so he never had to worry about something slower coming on. "I want you to do as many reps as you possibly can. When you can't push it up anymore, I'll put it back up. You'll be fine."
This would build her endurance, and it would help her confidence, with any luck.
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Maiya nodded and continued to bench press. After a while she found it kind of fun. Up down, up down, up down. As she benched she started to hum in with the song that was playing.
After a few more minutes of benching her arms began to feel weak but she continued as much as she could. Finally after two more minutes she almost dropped the bar on herself but was able to keep it up so Miko could grab it.
"I havn't benched in a very long time..." she admited. "Kind of nice to do it again..."
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
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When she could do no more, Miko's hands darted under the bar, but she managed to hold it up. He took it and lifted it back onto the rack. Not bad... She'd still need work, but this was a good confidence booster to kick off with.
"Okay, now we'll do the hex bar," Miko said, walking over to it and showing how it was done. He wanted her to try without any weight first. "Done this before?" he asked.
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Maiya smiled sadly and shook her head."No, when I was still living with my mother I didn't get to use a lot of exercise equipment because we couldn't afford it. I hope she's doing okay."
This whole lockdown buisiness was keeping her from seeing her mother. She always went to see her everyweekend but now cause of the lockdown she couldn't. Her mother had to be so worried.
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
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"Okay, you're just gonna step inside, squat -keeping your back straight- grab the handles, like this," he said, explaining everything as he went through it all. "Then you lift it, just letting your arms hang down like this. Then back down. And when you get better, do some shoulder shrugs when you have it lifted."
Miko didn't mind helping people like this. It wasn't too personal. It was just exercise. So it wasn't like he was gonna connect with her and end up worried... End up hurt.
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Maiya nodded and started doing everything he showed her to do. She almost fell over once from her loosing her balance but managed to keep herself up.
She felt silly doing it but if it was going to help her get stronger then she would do it. It was like the Bench press, up down up down up down. Did everything deal with up and down? It seemed like it.
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
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"Alright, you're doing pretty good. Stay steady."
Miko watched. Her form was in good shape for a beginner. "Do ten reps, then we'll do leg press," he said. He just leaned against a wall. There wasn't anything he could do to really help spot with this one. He looked over at the leg press. He'd need to take some of the weight off.
"Um... Is that too heavy?", Maiya
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