20 Summer 518 Once more Crylon found himself at the lakeshore Dojo having arrived later than most of the people. When he walked in Johan as always was about, but besides him only one or two other regulars were in and were busy sparring with each other. He had his pack off to the side, which was also where he kept his shirt. Once he got cleaned up and headed to the lumber company he would need to put it on, but until then he would keep himself free of the repressive cloth his employer made him wear. Crylon decided to instead go to the backroom to do some bodybuilding. He was quickly coming to realize that if he wanted to build any kind of definition, he would need to spend regular time focused on working out his muscles besides other time sparring and such. As he had been shown before by Johan he began by stretching as he did each session. He tried to mix this bit up though, so long as he still worked each part of his body into flexibility. Bending for toes touches to limber his torso. This time balancing on one leg and pulling his leg up to the side until he got as close to the bottom of his foot lying flat. Then the other leg. He finished off with some arm stretches, bending them behind his body, and turning them around with fingers linked. Then he got to the real work. Moving about with the weights to get them in the needed order. As his left arm was much stronger than his right, he had to arrange the weights on the bar so that said was heavier. Each time he did this he had to make a new set of weights, and when done break them down, as it would not work for others and their even arms. He added a small bit more weight than last time, but only a bit more as he was focusing more on repetitions than weight. Maybe once his form was down, he thought to himself, he could try to experiment more. But for now, he wanted to learn what to do and what not to do before he got into larger weights. The bar set up he slowly bent at the knees to grab it, rising by unbending his knees. Then a motion of the arms to get it up to his chest, and another to extend it above his head. Then reversed, bringing it back down to his waist. And back up. And down. He kept at this for a good ten or fifteen chimes, before finally setting the bar down and breaking it down for the next user's consideration. Next was his legs, trying some resistance work. Lying down on the side he found some equipment to use for that. It was a chain attached to the ground, with a padded metal shackle type mechanism at the end which could have bars and weights attached to it. Except this had no lock, and was meant to keep it from falling off. He put these on his legs, attached a smaller bar with some weights (evenly distributed for his legs), and tried to lift his legs upward. Once the chains were fully extended they stopped his legs from going higher, and he had to hold them there for a chime while they weight bore down on them and made his leg muscles burn. Then he rested, lowering his legs back to the ground. A short break, and then he lifted again, holding for another chime. After a few more repetitions of this he undid his legs, moving to finish with some more arm work outs. This involved some single handed weights, one larger for his left arm than the other. Once he felt he had spent enough time working out Crylon cleaned up his mess, and then returned to the main room to look for someone to spar with. |