Novel Full Chapter 1376 Measuring Grip Strength
To be fair, handling the “pull” wasn’t even half the battle when we go to Japan because one, it was only present in Old Man Kaiseki’s mountain, two, those zones were scattered up and about—while there seem to be a few that would pop up randomly—and three, cardio was still fucking king because unless we bring a few ATVs to help with the ascent, it’d take us hours and hours just to reach the residential area by foot.
But I just had another thought.
“Hold up…”
“What is now?!” Quinn exclaimed, annoyed.
I waved them off, “Nah, it’s better ready than sorry.”
“Just tell us, dammit!”
“Why are you so pissed?! Fine! I just thought that if anything, we’d face more deadheads on flat ground than the mountain itself because if anything, Old Man Kaiseki’s fucking territorial so he’d be running up and down the mountain several times with his oodachi, moving down anything that’s trespassing…”
“Oo-what?”
“Oodachi. O-O-D-A-C-H-I! Just imagine my katana but bigger, longer, thicker, and fucking heavier. Not as heavy as Quinn’s ‘Staff’ but it’s a pain to swing it around, much less draw it from its sheathe.”
Tatiana cut in, “Alright— Can we get serious? I dunno about you all but I’m nervous for some reason. I gotta know what to do so I won’t embarrass myself.”
“Tatiana?” Kaley looked concerned, “Why would you think that?”
She shook her head, “Nah, I just feel weird today. I don’t know why. I haven’t even pooped yet after three cups of coffee.”
Then everyone else reacted:
“I haven’t even pooped out the cum in my ass too! Same, same…”
“What?!”
“Hah? It has to exit somewhere, you dumbfuck!”
“Huh.”
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“Isn’t that a little too much info?!”
“Guys—”
“T-Three cups? You’re crazy…”
“You’re really glazed over that?!”
“Guys! Let’s go back on topic, please!”
In any case, it became chaotic for a few minutes but looking at Tatiana, she really looked restless for some reason but to be honest, all she— no, all everyone needed to do was just to trust the fucking process and earn the rewards when the time comes.
So I addressed them again, “Alright, it shouldn’t come as a surprise but to everyone here, I suggest doing a few more isolation sets for your forearms and add a bit of grip training too that would focus on each of your fingers every single day. Besides that, make sure to get your steps in—at least 10,000 or even 12,500—but do watch your caloric and protein intake.”
Tatiana chuckled, “I can easily do that part.”
I continued with a smile, “Fats and carbs aren’t your enemies so take them too. This training could be redundant in the end but I said it many times before: It’s better to have and not need than to need and not have. A little extra on top of the training we’re always doing can’t hurt anybody. But that’s the case, don’t overdo it.
You’d fucking hate yourself if you get injured in the process and see that ship leaving without you.”
“…”
Then I glanced at Kaley before I added something for the things we’d have to make up for:
“Before I forget, for the people that are rifle-centered or pistol-aligned, as much as I’d hate to say this, we’d also have to include using shotguns in our allotted time in the range. I know it’s fun and majestic to shoot a fly’s penis off a few hundred yards but with how unpredictable the mountain is, we’d have to be prepared for it with our firearms too.
Don’t worry, it’s not a total wipe for our usual loadout but like our additional training with our forearms, training with shotguns would be a necessity for this coming trip and I’m grading all of you for that.”
Kaley cut in, “Umm… Shouldn’t we be telling everyone else that’s coming with us to do this too?”
“Ah— I will, eventually— after this, I promise. I just want to tell you guys first.”
“Okay… I’m gonna need some help with the shotgun I’d use—”
“Don’t we have the same Shockwave?”
“Ah… That thing? It’s still hanging by my pack and collecting dust, I forgot I had it for a moment… Thought it was a heavy umbrella…”
“Hah! I’m sorry, your time with the Reaper will be cut in half.”
“It’s ok, it’s ok— I really should learn everything in my arsenal. Same with everybody else, right?”
“Exactly,” I said with a smile as I nudged her gently with my elbow.
“Jeez~ Louise~ Acting all sweet after yesterday, in the early morning, the morning, and even now?! Way~ to get everyone jealous!” Quinn teased with a smile.
Kaley rolled her eyes while shaking her head, chuckling, “We’re just talking, ya know? And don’t you have a train to fix?”
“Haaaah~ I swear to fucking god I just have to turn them on and there’s nothing wrong with them, I’ll have my way with all of you when I get back!”
“Sure!” Kaley promptly replied.
“You— You’re so lucky you’re hot— though I might go for someone that’d squirm— Anyway! Fuck ya’ll bitches, I’ll be back before lunch!”
“See you later, Quinn!” Everyone else then said their goodbyes.
With that said, while it’s true there were a few of us in here like Megan and Alexa who were sure to come with us in a month, I really just wanted to have my own group to get started a little early.
They could chalk it up to favoritism or something else but our group doesn’t care about bullshit drama like that and the two I mentioned—and everyone else present for this matter—could care less for that matter and were more than happy to follow along with the exercises I wanted to make Tatiana and Kaley do, so our chances of survival in Okinawa, Japan would be similar to our chances of survival here.
But yeah, the Deweys—especially Eden and June—looked like they wanted to come with us, the latter a little more badly, but in Eden’s case, she needed to do fewer things compared to June.
Campaign the two’s physical fitness would be like comparing a beginner gym-goer to an intermediate athlete. Still, all she could do right now—and what she was currently doing at the moment—was improve her basics and soak in more knowledge about training one’s body.
But yeah, their regular routine aside, everyone else didn’t seem too convinced about the different types of wrist curls to strengthen their forearms—even showing them the rice bucket method used by arm wrestlers to improve their grip.
Because despite Quinn’s display followed by my own, almost everyone assumed it was due to Quinn being a freak of nature and me being, you know… me.
Aside from being from the opposite gender, they’ve seen me pull several times my weight when we were in the Rivas Estate, and doing simple exercises like this with very light weights—free weights at the current moment—didn’t seem like the key to achieving the same strength standard.
Alexa looked confused, for one, “Wait, that’s really it?”
I nodded, “Yep. Just do it AFTER your regular routine and you’ll be set. If you do it before, you’ll just gas out before your normal lifts since this is straight-up isolation of your forearm muscles.”
Ella raised her hand, “Umm… Question?”
“Shoot.”
“I umm… While I get that doing this could increase our forearm strength or whatever but is it really the only way to control the pulls you talked about earlier?”
“Hmm… I mean~ control doesn’t necessarily mean equal strength but while strengthening that particular body part like, you know, just by itself and not using compound movements, you’d get a ‘feel’ for it—giving you control bit by bit. It’s not an exact science but that’s how I went about it.”
Tatiana cut in, “Still feels weird for me but I can feel the pump despite going with lighter weights.”
“It’d feel much weirder if you switch to cables but at the end of the day, all you need is stimuli—” then I had a thought, “Oh, fuck! I forgot to bring that out before this shit!”
“What now?”
“Hold on a sec, I’ll be right back! Boy~ I am all over the place today, huh?”
In any case, I was back in a span of a few minutes because all I needed was to run over to Rin and ask where the GM150 HHD(Hydraulic Hand Dynamometer) was before bringing it up. Currently, I have this device with a display showing how much pressure they’d put on the grip handle attached to it, and I started the party by throwing it over to Tatiana.
“I think I know what this is, I just grip on it, right?”
“Yeah— but hold for three seconds.”
“Alright, you dick, you should’ve brought this before we did these exercises!”
“You barely did them and if anything it just warmed you all up.”
“Fair. Whooo… Lemme get my breathing first.”
After maybe 10 seconds, Tatiana’s muscles just tensed before she gripped the device as hard as she could and then tested the other hand right after a short break. Everyone could see how red her face had gotten even after letting go of it and surprise, surprise, the Sin of Gluttony scored 71.6kg(157.5lbs) on her right hand and 70.5kg(155.1lbs) on her left.
“Jesus fucking christ, remind me why you didn’t pull with us that time in the Rivas Estate again?”
“I just ate?”
“Fair.”
“Heh. What is your score then—”
I cut her off as I turned to the next person, “Kaley?”