Clash of Champions

[xalex]

Karin would push the pipe upwards with all she got. It had only the minimum weight on it but it was still heavy for the small girl, especially after it was the last time for now. She already did 14 times and this would have been the final time. Her arms would shake a bit while she was doing her best to slowly lift the iron pipe up from her chest once again trying to lift it higher and higher. Sweat was running over her forehead while the pipe would start to reach the high it needed to get to. When she finally done it she would throw her arms backwards putting the iron pipe back into the holding position before her arms would drop downwards right next to her onto the bench. The small girl would lay there breathing heavily. She would look up to the ceiling wondering how hard it would be to finally get stronger. She was almost training every day already. The girl would slowly sit up picking up her water bottle.

She started to hate it to come here into the law gym. Since the day she won the loserbelt she was just laughed at here. She was forced to carry around the belt with herself in the gym and wear a shirt saying #1 loser. This was humiliating and hurtful. The girl would slowly stand up and whipping the sweat of the bank cleaning up after herself. She would look around for a moment unsure what to do next.

 

[Highfly]

Tina had just finished a hard workout, covered in sweat. It was a cooler day outside so she had a pair of blue and black yoga pants along with a blue sports bra as she had just finished up her last rep in the squat rack. She wiped the sweat from her forehead as she looked around. There weren't many woman at the gym today but Tina did look over and see a familiar face. She couldn't recall her name but Tina knew she also held a title as did Tina.

Tina smiled as she approached the smaller lady and waved. "Hey there, how is your workout going? Can I help ya at all?" Tina asked as she smiled, doing her best to be friendly with the woman. She had wrestled enough heels and tough matches lately. She hoped she could have a meeting with someone and have it be friendly as opposed to adversarial. Tina hoped the woman would be receptive..... the last thing Tina wanted was for someone to see her as a threat instead of a friend.

[xalex]

Karin was soo deep inside her own head that she wasn't noticing that someone was walking right up to her. She would still think about what she could do next or if she maybe should call it a day, although she knew she would never do that and just walk away. When this person, was talking to Karin the small girl would rip her eyes wide open from shock almost jumping up into the air. She would spin around to suddenly look at a person that was looking so fit and in perfect shape that Karin couldn't help herself amd be amazed for a few moments,looking at this result from yearlong hard training in perfection. This was even better then all of the employees of the gym. When she looked at the face Karin would directly recency the person standing in front of her.

For a moment she wasn't saying a single word just looking at the figure.
"Miss Armstrong...." she would say "how can I help you..." she would look up into the face of one of the biggest names of law... The first ever middleweight champion herself, Tina armstrong... Who won her belt later at the same evening as Karin... "do I stand in your way... "Karin would pull the stuff of the machine"it is all yours!"
She would sa. Karin was looking upto this woman in more than one way. Karin would just stand there looking up to Tina, feeling how her knees started to shake. Face to face with greatness, and it was strange.

[Highfly]

Tina saw her nervous Karin was and immediately put her hands up. "No lass, I was just saying hello! No need to be worried I ain't one of those crazies ya see runnin' 'round this place. Take a deep breath and relax." Tina said to try to get Karin to calm down a bit.

"I was just wondering if you wanted to join me for a workout? It is always easier to get stuff done when ya have a buddy ya know? I was gonna fit some weights and do endurance work today and if ya want to tag along that would be great!" Tina would offer in the most pleasant voice she could to help ease Karin's nerves. "I'm Tina but ya already got that part. Just call me Tina though, no miss Armstrong or anything. Whats your name?"

[xalex]

“YES PLEASE!” Would it shoot out of Karin, as soon as tina asked if the girl would like to tag along. It was like a dream come true. But Karin would directly notice how much fan girl that did sound and so she would cough for a moment before looking at Tina, trying to reply a bit more calm and adult. “Yes I would love to tag along with you to train.” She would stop for a moment, looking a bit sad. “but I might have to warn you, people might start to talk about you behind your back when you spend time with me…. My name is Karin shin… I am the first woman to hold a law title… the same night you won your middleweight title, I had a match in the preshow of the ppv. I did lose the match and became the first ever and longest reining loserbelt champion of law…”

Karin would put her arms away from her chest refilling the word loser on her first… She would look a bit sad to tina. “if a top star like you don´t want to waste her time with someone like me I wouldn´t blame you”

[Highfly]

Tina tilted her head a bit to the side. She heard of the belt Karen held, but didn't think that it had that much of a negative stigma.... although it was a title Tina herself never hoped to have. "Karin, I don't think anyone will say anything. I have no problem training with you and I know you won't have that title forever. You are gonna get yourself some wins and it's gonna feel great when it happens. Ya nearly beat Thunder Ryuko not too long ago right? If you can hang with her you can beat a lot of the women in LAW." Tina said as she made her way over to the squat rack.

"All righty, Karin by the time I am done with you I bet you'll be ready to go out there and take it to someone in that ring!" Tina said as she began setting up the weight on the bar for Karin.

[xalex]

Karin would look at the woman standing in front of her with sparkling eyes. Finally someone who believed into her and wasn´t telling her to quite and give up. Karin was so happy for a moment when she suddenly saw how the other woman was grabbing weights and putting them onto the bar. The girl would watch her for a moment until she was done… that was a bit more than she usually was using.

“Okay I will give my best and won´t disappoint you Tina!” She would say laying down onto the bench. “just a question when did you start to train for this?” She would grab the bar with both of her heads breathing in and out deeply before trying to slowly push it up. It was only happening slowly but Karin was doing it and was able to get the bar out of the holding position and into the air before lowering it to her chest. Karin would press it upwards with as much force as she could, trying to repeat this a few times feeling how her arms were starting to shake after the third time… but only after the third time she was trying to put it back into the holding… She would breathe heavily feeling her arms already burning.  

[Highfly]

Tina watched Karin lift and it seemed like Karin's effort was there but she was trying to do too much at once. "Karin, I totally get that you want to lift as much as ya can when you come, but you need to pick a weight that will allow you to do more reputations of an exercise. Work on endurance first before you build up to lifting more weight. You will be amazed at how much progress you make!" Tina said, trying to sound as encouraging as she could.

"Take a break for one minute, and I will cut the weight in half. With less weight you want to try to do 12-15 reps in a set, and do four sets of an exercise. As ya progress cut down on the break time and maybe even do a set of one exercise, then do a set of something different to pair them up, know what I mean?"

[xalex]

Karin would blush a little bit when the other woman was suddenly taking off weight from the bar. She would look away a bit ashamed that she couldn´t do what tina expended from her. She would nod before replying. “so what you are saying to me is that you want me to do many reps with lighters weights? So I could build up some endurance that I could use later to lift heavier weight, still with a high reps count. I should also try to take short breaks between every set, reducing the break time over time so my muscles have more to work and are more used?” she would ask.

She would again grab the bar afer the break was over starting to push it upwards again, slowly doing the reps. The weight might be lighter now, but her arms were already burning from the training with the heavy weight. And the high number of reps wasn´t helping anything. Her head would get red when she reached ten and she would need to focus, but this time she didn´t want to let tina down so she would go up all the way to 15 before putting the bar back…
She would lay there breathing heavily and sweating strongly… “damn…”, she would whisper quietly using her break to recover. “when and how did you start to train?”

[Highfly]

Tina watched as Karin began lifting, making sure her form was good. This time was much better and Tina was happy with the results. "Oh me? Well I grew up watching wrestling a lot and I had nothing really going on so when I heard of local shows in the area I hit the gym while I was in school. I just did whatever I could to get more fit, watching other people and then trying things myself. A lot of trial and error really when i was younger." Tina said, well aware that had Alaina been here she would tell Tina that she was still young.