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“What are you doing?” Dunes asked, watg as Adam pushed himself up from the ground, only to go back down to nearly ying down.
“Push ups,” Adam replied, inhaling, pushing himself up, exhaling, dropping back down again to inhale. Once he was doh his third set of twenty push ups, he stood up, grabbed a sack full of wooden blocks which had been saved for heating homes, before squatting, also twenty times.
The others hadn’t seen Adam seriously train before, but this was certainly o them. They hadn’t seen the kind of training Adam was doing, which began with a ten minute run, followed by some light stretg, before he moved to whatever he was doing now.
‘I should make dumbbells,’ Adam thought, finishing the five sets of twenty push ups and squats. He walked around the courtyard for a short while, before he ed some rope around the sack, and pulled the sack up.
“What are you doing now?”
“Deadlifts,” Adam replied, trying to keep himself from arg his upper bauch. ‘When I first came to this world, I retty strong, and I looked like a freaking God of War, and now I look like the God of Pubs.’
Adam fihe routine, which he’d o ge sooner or ter once he had figured out how to make dumbbells in this world.
“What’s with the funny looking movements?” Lucy asked, having joihem for breakfast. She had decided to spend more time with the others, even though Dunes and Jonn didn’t like her much still.
“These funny looking movements are going to make me stronger,” Adam said. “Well, less weaker, when I try and lose weight.” ‘I wonder if my stats will ge much?’
“They look stupid,” Lucy said.
“So they have something in on with your face then?” Adam replied.
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Adam rubbed his arm where she had struck him, but remained smiling at her. “You shouldn’t hit your friends.”
“Hit me back if you don’t like it,” Lucy grumbled.
“I ’t,” Adam said. “I’ll get celled.”
“celled?”
“Yeah, I’ll have to take responsibility for my own as,” Adam said, shaking his head. “I ’t be doing that.”
“What does that have to do with anything?” Lucy said. “If I punch you, you should be thankful.”
“I’m thankful that you’re training so much so I don’t have to deal with you,” Adam said, this time pig up Lanarot, cutting off Lucy’s punches.
“Just what I get for ing and showing my beautiful face,” Lucy said. “I’m wasted on you.”
“We’re not even going out, so don’t say stuff like that,” Adam said, ruffling Lanarot’s hair, before catg a whiff of her gift for him. “My God, Lanarot. What are they feeding you?”
Adam washed her up, a her py in the er with the other children as he dipped iream, before returning back with her to the smell of bread and soup.
‘Look at all these carbs,’ Adam said, staring at the food. “I’m currently on a diet so I o stuff like meat and eggs.”
“You should be careful eating too much meat and eggs,” Shikan said. “You must eat yetables too.”
“I’ll eat vegetables too, that’s fine, but I ’t eat any more bread or pe.” Adam picked up some soup, sipping against it.
“Why not?” Shikan asked. The Kans had been in charge of cooking for the week, and though Shikan usually cooked lots of meat, he had been making soup instead si was still fairly chilly.
“I’m trying to lose weight,” Adam said.
“You are healthy,” Shikan said.
“Very healthy,” Sonarot said, taking her role as his Aunt.
“Yes, but,” Adam said, reag down to squish some of his stomach. “Look at this. My six pack. It’s gone.”
“Six pack?”
“You know,” Adam said, pointing to Shikan. “Uncle Shikan, show us your abs.”
Shikan pulled up his shirt, revealing his bare abs for the group all to see. Though he had stopped going out to adventure, he kept fit within the Iyr, as most adults did.
“You see?” Adam said, motioning to his abs. “Six pack.”
“Oh,” Lucy said, nodding her head, swallowing the excessive saliva f in her mouth. “A six pack.”
“There is no need for you to lose weight,” Sonarot said. “You are healthy and strong.”
“No need?” Lucy replied. “I’m the one whose going to be adventuring with him year! He’s an idiot, so at least let him look good so I tolerate him!”
Adam thought about how much he would enjoy pung her, and how much it would be worth it, but decided against it. “Anyway, I’ve decided to lose weight. I’ll also be introdug something amazing to the Iyr.”
“What is it?” Sonarot asked. Adam had brought two great things to the Iyr so far. Pizza, which was a delicious food, though it didn’t py much of a part in causing him to gai, and rickshaws, which had been rather fun for the children of the Iyr, as well as useful for the Iyr in general.
“Dumbbells,” Adam said.
Lucy almost snorted out the soup she was eating, ughing as she choked. “Dumb bells! Dumb bells! Adam is bringing dumb bells!”
“What’s so funny?” Adam asked.
“You, an idiot, are bringing dumb bells into the Iyr!” Lucy kept howling with ughter, almost g as she did.
‘I o make a magical on which allows me to bad people freely,’ Adam thought, his fiwitg. “Anyway…” ‘Wait. Idiot. Dumb. Bells.’ Adam chuckled slightly, before quickly stopping himself. “Anyway. Dumbbells are weights that one hold to train themselves. I’ll sketch out what I’m talking about and I’ll show you what I mean.”
‘If it is Adam, it must be something good,’ Sonarot thought, and Shikan held a simir thought.
Ohey had finished eating, Adam feeding his bread to his little sister, he sketched out what they were, before pig up a sack. “See this, right? It’s difficult to hold, so you ’t really move it the way you want to because it’s a little unwieldy, right?” Adam the down, befrabbing an axe. “See how the axe has a head? This is actually pretty good for lifting, but it’s a little too light, and it’s only heavy on one side.”
Shikan nodded. “I usually train my body by swinging my sword.”
“Yeah, but that’s pretty dangerous, and it isn’t that effit for increasing your actual strength,” Adam replied. “If you had dumbbells, you could introduew movements you couldn’t before, and you track your progress through the amount of times you lift, and the amount of weight you lift.” Adam wasn’t sure if he should go too ih about them, especially since he only khe basics of weight lifting.
“You should speak with Elder Zijin,” Shikan said. “He will be able to assist with this matter.”
“I guess that’s what I’m doing today,” Adam said. ‘If I introduce dumbbells, then it would be easier to gain muscle. They probably have their own ways, including with the rocks, but they could be used to help achieve a fairly basic standard.’ That’s when it hit Adam. ‘I could use them for training people too.’
Adam quickly made his way to find Elder Zijin, taking with him a stylus and some paper so he could sketch everything for the Elder.
“Dumbbells?” Zijin asked, rubbing his . He stared down at the sketches Adam had brought him.
“Yes. I don’t know why they’re called dumbbells, but I don’t mind ging the name sihe etymology might not make sense here.” Adam shrugged his shoulders.
After expining the general cept, he worked with the Elder to design the dumbbells, sketg out a design he had seen using crete poured into blocks.
“I will bring this to the attention of the Great Elders,” Zijin said, eyeing up the designs. The Iyrmen usually used sacks and rocks, and their own bodyweight to train usually, but this seemed iing. “You say they are useful for training oo bee stronger?”
“Extremely useful, yes,” Adam replied. “This was how people in my nd traihey were simple and easy to use. There are also kettlebells, which I hear is better for training.” Adam sketched out the design for the Elder.
“Ohey are made, will you show us how they are used, and how your people trained with them?” Zijin asked.
“Yeah, sure.” Adam nodded his head. “I’m sure there are probably other things I could mention and introduce to the Iyr, but I ’t really think of anything which is as feasible, or as useful, as the few things I’ve already brought.”
“The rickshaws are useful,” Zijin stated. “The pizza is delicious as well.”
“Right?” Adam smiled. “Alright, well, I’ll leave it to you.” Adam waved areated. ‘Should I use this month to ihings?’
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