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 Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 4:40 pm
After already having seen her doing other forms, the control and endurance strength it took to maneuver around on another human as a jungle gym took an impressive degree of athleticism and raw trust that they would have the same control and strength.
He was at least piqued in interest to see if the skill held true all the way, even at his own expense, so he obliged, counter-weighting one hand onto his own hip while extending the other at a held horizontal for her use.
"Ja, it does. It is similar to this sort of thing, people using weight and slow strength to test their accuracy, focus, and strength. There are shows for people who use it to entertain others, but it isn't always for circuses. That's just a way to make a living of it, I guess. "
"Are you going to be an instructor for kung fu when you are making a living?"
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 7:11 am
A huge grin found a place upon the girl's face as her bridge to doing pull-ups formed. With his arm straightened out, the girl began to maneuver herself slowly, one hand at a time stretching and latching onto Bjorn. By the time she had made it to the goal of his bicep, the grin was lost to an expression of deep concentration.
So an answer to the Pull-up Bar's question was difficult at best to focus on while completing this task.
She was short enough that leaving her legs dangling below her would have not caused her issue while attempting the simple exercise, but that was not good enough. Slowly, her legs lifted up until they formed a 90 degree angle with the rest of her body. While dangling and holding that position, the girl took a moment to inhale deeply.
It would be pathetic if she just now suddenly dropped like a fly and wasn't able to complete the task at hand.
Upon the third deep breath, she finally resumed the other half of the exercise, while still maintaining her legs at the same angle. At this point it wasn't even a clean jerk like jumping up to a pole and being done with the exercise. Instead it was a shaky movement that was paced out since she had already been hanging so long. Her arms eventually formed the L position, then went even further as her head seemed to level out with the Bicep Pull-Up Bar. A grin briefly appeared upon her face as she once more allowed her body to sink down slowly.
"One!"
One was not a satisfactory number though, and soon enough the girl was already moving back up in an effort to add to her numbers. Eventually, a "Two!" was announced, and with a bit more time, a "Three!" joined the ranks.
Eventually a question popped out for her living Pull-Up Bars.
"...What would be a good number to stop at?"
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:58 pm
Keeping his arm at extension with a living girl bobbing on it was a new challenge, but so far one he could meet- she wasn't that heavy compared to atlas balls. Her question begged some evaluation -
Most fitness expectations were pretty gendered, and they also didn't take into account more than a baseline of averages in age. Well, why not. She looks to be able to handle it.
"The Presidential Physical Fitness for 16 year old guys is 10 or 11 pullups, I think. I'm not sure which. But that is probably a good goal for you. That would mean a lot of upper body strength and being able to command your own base weight. You can do it."
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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 8:06 pm
Jun's head bobbed for a brief nod as she seemingly silently accepted the challenge he had offered. However, after going up one more time and back down, it seemed as is she had a bit more to offer than just a number.
"Four!"
Only a hint of a pause.
"Those Fitness tests don't really challenge me with pullups... the Girl standards always stay the same across the board, from middle school to high school."
As her arms curled up once more, the girl went silent again as she concentrated upon her task at hand. Up once more and down again. A brief announcement of "Five," before she continued.
"...It's like one or two pullups at best... I think it is accounting that girls usually don't have a vast amount of upper body strength or something..."
The girl smiled wide with that assessment, since she had already lapped the standards for girls with this brief demonstration. Once more she managed to lift herself up and down with a proud "Six!" announced to the world.
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 3:24 pm
"Your teachers should give you the boys standards then. If the others don't challenge you. " It was sad when teachers had too many students to spend time to look at challenging those who wanted to be. He'd never had the problem himself in classes.
"Women don't usually, but that doesn't mean that they couldn't if they wanted. There are lots of women who lift weights and they are very strong. Stronger than men. Just four more. You can manage it, keep breathing for enough oxygen to your muscles. " Six was already a lot. Even if she didn't manage the ten, it was a concrete goal to achieve, and then surpass. He liked helping people and encouraging them to goals. "Its a lot of back and chest strength. And the backs of your arms. You can train those muscles with free weights or different kinds of pushups pretty cheaply."
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:40 pm
The girl managed to get herself up one more time and down again in a paced manner. After announcing "Seven," she explained "I normally do pullups on tree branches, but I don't hang excessively prior to the exercise. I was hanging off you a while before I started, that's all!"
Her toes curled a bit and uncurled as she forced another pullup out, raising and lowering herself once more.
"Eight!"
It might have been a bizarre sight to behold, with the little girl using the larger man for exercise, but this was Destiny City! Weirder things had happened! Jun seemed perfectly at home in this odd setting as she continued to grin.
"Either way, I passed the standards back when I was in Physical Education... it's not a requirement anymore... so I just do my own thing!"
Once more curling up her arms, she lifted herself up once more. This time when she was at her peek, she did add a comment.
"It seems to be working out, right?"
She lowered herself down again with the proper announcement. "Nine!"
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 3:37 am
He didn't really have a point of comparison to know what 'excessive' was for a girl and hanging from anything, since when they weren't being asked to do one pull up at schools, the same fitness exam sometimes required 'flexed arm hang'. Which mostly seemed like code for 'hold yourself still in a pull up and shake like a gerbil until you get bored and we'll time it.'
Either way, he had to agree on the last point, "It does seem to be working out for your upper body strength and endurance. One more. You can do it."
Holding steady for his own fitness with a girl monkeying around was more than a little like the Pillars of Hercules event, only made excruciatingly asymmetrical. "You can make ten."
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 8:56 am
Jun always loved a challenge.
Now was no exception.
She might have been grinning, but her arms were getting a bit sore now. Not enough to cripple her, but enough to make her debate stopping.
Of course, she wouldn't allow herself to do that when she was so close to surpassing the given goal. Her toes briefly curled and uncurled as she took in a few deep breaths.
It was now or never.
With slightly shakier arms, her body once more was lifted up by her own strength til her head was over the given "bar" of Bjorn's meaty arm. She lowered herself down and announced "Ten," but she didn't stop there.
Without much pause, she proceeded to move up and down two more times, announcing her count as each part of the exercise was completed. "Eleven!" and then "Twelve!"
Once she had finished the twelfth repetition of the exercise, she finally allow her legs to go back to a more normal hanging position. Her legs were ready to take up the burden of holding her weight (in comparison to her now thoroughly worked-out arms). So with that the small girl let go of the man's arm, dropping back to the ground and landing upon her bare feet.
Now a land-dweller once more, she quickly scurried in front of the man. Bringing both arms to the side and leaning forward in a quick bow usually meant to start and end spars, she uttered "Thank you!" It was a formality, but it was a necessary one if she ever wanted to use the Giant's arm again in the future.
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 12:28 am
The thought came vaguely to mind that she had to have really leathery feet to be wandering around a city, with all its trash and asphalt, in bare feet. Certainly much more brave that he would be on the germ front- cities were always so dirty. Not to mention with the war going around the possibilities of errant broken glass. There wasn't a chance to ask her about it though, his gears fart too slow in turning over.
She was bowing, which kinda registered as both thanks and goodbye to him, and without anything but instinct to go on he offered a more western nod-bow back hastily. "Ja...ah...it is ...was...no trouble. Good...luck with your training? You're doing very well, exceeding goals already."
Straightening he brought his arm up to rub it with opposite hand idly.
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 5:39 pm
Most people would have looked at the gesture from the giant and asked him about his well being. It was easy to see that there was a bit of strain in dealing with the girl's exercising ways.
Jun was not nearly that considerate. Instead she boldly commented "Always bring your best game, even if you are just training!" With another grin decorating her features, she almost seemed to skip back to the fountain rim she had occupied when Bjorn had originally appeared on the scene. Within a minute, she had already taken up a new stance to hold.
Some people would never change.
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