Chapter 26: Chapter 26 - Training!
After comparing the possible blind spots in the living room, I picked the most appropriate one, which just so happened to be near the table where I was reading the books at.
The table is right in front of a large square window, beside the door that leads to the courtyard. The window opens up to the quaint pond filled with all sorts of aquatic animals and plants, like fishes, turtles, seaweed, lotus and many more. One could sit at the table to enjoy the beautiful view of the pond while reading books with a hot pot of tea.
Behind the table opposite the window are large bookshelves made from fragrant sandalwood-like wood, similar to the material used to make the bedroom's headboard, filled with books of all sorts of manner, colour, and age.
'This wood is very smooth and cooling, and it smells very much like sandalwood. However, the colour is completely different. Sandalwood has a reddish brown colour to dark brown colour, depending on the way the furniture was made or the type of sandalwood used, or even paint, but the bookshelves are different. It's completely black, but it has grey coloured criss-crossing wood grains.
Definitely not painted over, otherwise the whole furniture would have a similar colour instead of such distinct difference in tone... And there defnitely wasn't any wood with a criss-cross wood grain pattern back on Earth...
The pattern is slightly wavy, perhaps it's not a straight criss-cross pattern, but a entwined spiral like pattern, similar to the pattern of DNA, but with much more strands. Is this a kinda of wood that was born as a result of the presence of Qi?' I mused as I softly rubbed my palms across the smooth, black-grey wood.
'Ah, enough oogling. I think this one is the best spot, the bookshelves are pretty thick, and if I adjust the chair around a little there would be a space between the bookshelves and the table that is in a blindspot from all sides. Except above, but that's a matter of course.
Of course, a little attention and it wouldn't be much of a blindspot, due to the chairs, but it should buy me enough time to act like nothing happened...'
As I thought that, I carefully moved the chairs little by little with my baby strength into a position that would give me space at the blinspot, while making sure the chairs are evenly spaced out, so it wouldn't look out of place at first glance.
'Whew. That was tiring enough to be exercise. If it were not for my Neutral Qi, I would probably run out of energy for my intended 'training session'...
Oh yeah! Training time! Feels a little wierd because I've never done this before, but 100 pushups! 100 situps! 100 squats! 10km of running! Everyday! YEAH! IMMA ONE PUNCH EVERYBODY OUTTA CULTIVATION!'
'Okay jokes aside, it's not actually a great workout plan. Really, if you ask me, the real reason for Saitama's strength isn't the workout plan at all. Well, the workout plan did actually give him like, a okay foundation for strength, but in my opinion, the real reason for his ridiculous strength was the life and death battles he had with the monsters.
During his 3 years of training, he always had fought monsters while patroling around the city he lived in, and it was after he had did his daily routine, so he pretty much went in tired at first. The adaptation to stress and the threat of death forced his body to pull out all of its potential, until well, there was nothing left, and yet he still kept on going. He reached a certain point where he just broke through a ceiling called 'his limits' and passed that point, he just grew exponentially.
Keep in mind, that he had no support of supernatural powers like Qi or Chi like in Drag*n B*ll or Nen like in H*nterXH*nter or even Chakra like in N*rut*. His strength came purely from the bodily potential of adaptation in a human being.
Even if he seemed clueless about the secret to his strength, the one thing he said was true, and I quote him, 'Human beings are strong because we have the ability to change ourselves.'
He's not wrong, but... whether one would actually endeavour to do so is rare... Besides, the fire in his eyes when he decided to train was really a nice touch, it looked bloody kewl, and probably had some secret related to 'limit breaking'. It's a pity Dr. Genus, who had a similar fire in his eyes as well, got depressed by Saitama because he was ahead of him, so wasted his potential...' I sighed at the dismay of such wasted potential
'Hold on, why am I getting so distracted for, and did I actually got censored?! What the hell? Who what why when where how? Argh. Forget it. Who cares. More important is the training routine I'm planing to do... I won't be able to run for now, so I think I'll just change it up a little...
From my experience, a pushup is great, a squat, okay I guess, while a situp is quite worthless... it was the easiest one of the warmups I did. And I only got tired due to the amount. A better one would be a leg up exercise. It puts more strain on my abs compared to the situps. But the best would be to train the whole body, so I'm really in a pickle here...
Pushups, squats, leg ups... jumping jacks would be good. Jumping stars would be a nice follow up... But how am I supposed to do the last 2 slowly? I intended to copy the way I did my exercises so far, 1 set of painfully slow-for endurance- and 1 set of as fast as possible-for power- but the last 2 exercises are nearly impossible to do slow...
Okay then, forget the last 2. I'll just do the first 3 exercises, 1 set of super slow, 1 set of super fast. then I move on to actual movements. Nothing would beat the actual movements I would use in fighting. For now, I'll do the first 3 exercises first, and as for the fighting moves, I'll contemplate on it and figure out the most efficient ways to complete my goal. I can just do my best first, then refer to books or mom and dad for furthur inspiration.'
Having decided what to do I proceeded to begin my new routine : 1 excruciatingly slow push up so I can get the proper balance and posture, paired with 1 as fast as I can do push up for power. 1 super slow squat in a posture where my back is straight, a little like horse stance, except I'm moving up and down really slow. Then 1 super fast one in the same position. 1 leg up with extremely gradual rising and falling but only moving my legs kept as straight as possible, then 1 as fast as I can move my legs up and down. With this, one routine is complete.
'I should do 1 exercise for each set today, and repeat until I get extremely tired. Then I'll add 1 everyday. So tomrrow, I'll have to do 2 slow pushups and 2 fast pushups and so on. Come to think of it, I think I'll experiment around with the exercises, and see the most efficient posture and movement.『Ascendance』truly is my ultimate weapon for research. Thank you very much, Knowledge, for granting me such useful power~!' I happily thought to myself as I instantly activated『Ascendance』.
I went into the pushup posture and started experimenting with the movements are posture, or at least I tried to.
'Ah right, its 100%. I just got so used to it while reading the books since I'm not even moving my body. I should tone it down to 1%.' I embarrassingly thought.
Toning down『Ascendance』to 1% of its full capacity, the world started speeding up yet again. My body moved sluggishly slow, but still decent enough so I can observe quite well the changes in my body.
'I'll keep it on at 1% for the whole time, and maybe up it a little when I need to observe some tiny details...'
As such, the whole night wasted away as a baby was moving around, twitching randomly, in a weirdly slow manner at a hidden corner of the living room.
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