10 Training
In the morning I am woken up by a different housemaid, unlike Martha, Lisa was more vibrant and seemed to have an outgoing personality, with a round face and pale complexion while Martha had an oval-shaped face and tanned skin as she was Hispanic and Lisa being white. Both of them seemingly being the same height around 5,5ft Martha seemed to be around her mid-30s while Lisa seemed to be around her 20s.
"Morning miss it is 7:15 am, breakfast is ready downstairs, I was asked to inform you that your first training session starts in 45minutes with Phine and they also asked me to give you this daily timetable," she says as I lazily sit up on the bed.
"Thank you," I say and asses the laminated paper. Every day at 8 am Monday, Wednesday and Fridays I always start training with Phine for, then with Luke and following Darius each with a two-hour interval with short 30minute breaks in between. But from Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays its first Darius, Phine then Luke. After 4 pm I then start my lessons with the tutor and end with him/her at 8 pm, Sundays will be my day off.
"I have to take your measurements and also I would like you to choose the style of clothing you like before you go downstairs so that we can order clothes for," she says as she comes to my bedside with a measuring tape and tablet. I stand and browse through the options. After she is done, I hand her the tablet and go to the bathroom to freshen up for the day. After taking a quick shower I exit the bathroom to see a fresh pair of clothes on the bed that was already made up, white shorts and a normal black tank top. After getting ready I walk downstairs to the kitchen for breakfast.
I walk into to kitchen to see Darius, Phine and Luke eating but the kitchen table while Martha, Lisa and Nana are cleaning up around the area.
"Good morning" I greet, as I take the seat close to Luke. Luke and Phine nod back to me with their stuffed mouth while Darius simply ignores me.
"Oh no sweety, you eat at the dining room with your father who is in the dining room waiting for you. I will bring your breakfast to you shortly" she says and I smile at her and quietly make my way to the dining room.
"Good morning," I say as I take a seat opposite my dad on the round dining table. The view of this room was amazing as it shows the beautiful garden outside.
"Morning, how did you sleep?" he asks and I reply," Good". For a moment we eat in silence and as I keep looking out to the garden, he clears his throat and says," You know I planted that garden with your mom"
"It's beautiful, I would like to work on it myself sometime- if that's okay?" I ask and he just nods in agreement.
" I am going to be working at the company in the city for a few days"
"When are you leaving?"
"Today, I will call you once I'm there"
After we are done I hug him goodbye and make my way to the backyard near the shed where Phine was already waiting.
"You ready?" he simply asks and I nod.
"Alright today for the first hour, we are going to start by sprinting around the entire yard twenty times, with 10-second breaks in between and the second hour we will move to inside to the indoor gym to build up some strength muscle." He says and I just start at him with wide eyes. This yard was 3 times bigger than our school field.
"Isn't there a treadmill in the indoor gym?" I ask but he just turns it down saying training for cardio outdoor was better than doing it with the treadmill.
"Isn't running outside or on a treadmill is basically the same thing?"
"wrong, running outdoors comes with added layers of difficulty, as weather, traffic and varied terrain all come into play. Outdoor running also causes wind resistance, which forces the runner to work harder. The resistance of harder surfaces such as pavement also encourages your body to burn more calories at a faster rate. Because these factors are missing on a treadmill, runners are capable of moving faster on a treadmill. But I don't want to make it easier for you." he says and I sigh.
"Oh and we are only running around the yard today because it's your first time, from tomorrow onwards we will run on the road and maybe up the mountains depending on your progress" he adds.
After an hour of running, we move to the gym in the house which was as big as our school hall with a lot of gyming equipment inside-and right in the middle basic fighting ring, as we enter we see Darius and Luke sparring together in the ring.
Although Darius and Luke are in completely different weight classes, Luke still manages to hold his own with speed and agility while Darius visibly had more muscle and size what but with the muscle you sacrifice speed.
"This is a gym room and a training room as well"
" Am I going to have to learn how to fight like that?" I ask as I gawk at Luke and Darius's fight, every time a blow was landed in either face I would flinch and look away. Noticing this Phine moves my face back at the fight to keep watching.
"In a fight, you must never look away from your opponent, because once you look away you are put at a further disadvantage as you won't be able to counter quick enough," he says.
Luke kicks at Darius's legs so fast but he was fast enough dodging each kick, not a second later he comes back with three jabs that Luke also dodges.
"What difference do you notice between Darius and Lukes fighting style, "Phine asks.
"Luke seems to be more of a kickboxer while Darius is more of a boxer/MMA fighter," I say
"Darius mixes both MMA and boxing while Luke is kickboxer but he also does MMA from time to time, let's get back to exercising," He says and we walk towards the gyming equipment.
The following hour I am exhausted from all the exercising and we take a 30-minute break to drink some water and cool off. Phine takes his leave and Luke takes over- we move to the backyard again where we find a table set up with two different guns on the table. Ten empty beer cans were setup ten feet or so from where we standing.
"This is the Glock 23 and the Smith&Wesson 45," he says as he hands me each of them separately for me to assess the difference.
"Today I'm going to show you how to assemble both guns and I will also show you how to aim and shoot," he says and I nod. It takes me only three tries to fully get the hang of assembling both guns.
"Center the front sight in the notch of the rear sight with the top of the front sight even with the top of the rear sight. Focus your eye on the front sight. The target and rear sight will go out of focus. That's normal. If you do everything right, the bullet's point of impact will be at the top centre of the front sight." he says, "Uhhh okay.."I say unsure of how exactly I was supposed to do this.
I breathe and relax my body before aiming, I extend both arms in front of me- making a small circle with the index fingers while both hand firmly holding the gun. I hold my breath halfway exhaled as I aim and squeeze the trigger closing my eyes, then exhale but before I pull the trigger, Luke interrupts me and says," Keep your eyes on the target." I nod and calm my breathing and pull the trigger. I manage to knock the can off the brick by the bullet scraping it.
"Not bad," he says with a smile and urges me to continue. After practising a few more times, my session ends with Luke and I decide to head inside to have some lunch while I wait for the last one with Darius.
