Ch-2

Though Usopp had made up his mind it was not easy for him to follow through with his plan. With his current physique, he was only able to perform twenty pushups before he was all exhausted. He was clearly aware of how low this number was and he had a long way to go.

Sensing his hands shaking he realized that they were asking for rest so he didn't push himself more today and went to his bed to sleep. As he lay down on the bumpy bed which was everything but comfortable, he started thinking about what he would be needing in the future.

He had checked the amount of Berries(Money in One piece) he had in his possession. It was all the money that was left behind by his deceased mother and if he spent it normally then it would last around five more years. After that he would have grown up enough to find work for himself, that's what his mother had thought before leaving this much money for him.

Usopp clearly knew that he had less than a year's time on this island before the straw hats came. He knew this because the kids had asked him whether he had gone up the hill to visit Kaya, the girl in the mansion.

Knowing this gave him the confidence to spend more money on himself. With that, he slowly closed his eyes and fell asleep.

The next day after freshening up he went towards the village with the money and bought himself a bed which was transported to his home soon after. With his means of rest arranged the next thing Usopp did was to look for a gym. Even though he had little hope of finding a gym in this little village he still looked for it.

As he had expected, there was no gym or a place where he could weight train in this village. The next best thing he could do was to have someone make them for himself. He remembered that there was a blacksmith here during his search and went to the owner of the shop.

"Hey, old man do you make weight equipment?" Usopp asked.

"Weight equipment? Do you mean the iron tools we use to train our bodies?" The old man asked.

"Oh, yes, that only!" Usopp said expectantly hearing that the old man knew about them.

"Come inside, I've already made quite a few of them, you can decide on what you want yourself." The old man said while gesturing him towards the inside of his shop as he went in himself.

Inside the shop, he saw a bunch of steel weapons that were hung on the walls and placed around the room. Usopp followed the old man to another room that was made solely for weight equipment.

Looking at the room he found that was filled with Dumbbells and barbells of different weights. They ranged from 5 kg to 110 kg. Though there were only these two types Usopp was not disappointed at all. He quickly bought dumbbells of 5kg, 10kg and 20 kg for starting and bought a 40 Kg barbell.

He paid the old man extra to get it all delivered to his house by today evening. The old man readily agreed after accepting his money in a happy mood. After all, that was done Usopp went to the restaurant in the village.

He was hungry and since he had decided to build up his body it was only natural for him to eat more and eat healthily. Looking at the menu he started ordering all the things which he felt were good for him and started devouring them.

After thirty minutes Usopp exited the restaurant with his belly full and wallet slightly emptier. Taking a burp to indicate his satisfaction he proceeded towards his house. When he reached his home, he noticed that the bed was already there and it was the same for the weights. He couldn't help but praise the quickness of the traders in this village.

His food had digested a bit during his journey back home and it was now time for him to exercise. He started with cardio. After jogging around the perimeter of his house for thirty minutes he took a short breather before shifting to weights.

He continued doing different variations of exercises with the dumbbells before shifting to the barbell as he finally lost all strength in his body. He lay down on the ground gasping for breath as he looked at the evening sky.

After laying down on the ground for ten minutes he recovered a bit and went for another running session around his house before finally calling it a day.

This was the usual routine for him for the next couple of weeks. Eating, Exercising and Sleeping that was all he had been doing all these days. While he was doing all this training, he found out something peculiar. All the muscle aches that he incurred while exercising disappeared after he took a good night's rest.

At first, he had only linked this to him not exercising enough by bringing his body to the limits but he soon discovered that this was not so the case. By the end of the first week, he had been doing reps of 100s with the weights he had bought and it was the same for other callisthenics exercises he was doing.

By the end of the day, he was exhausted to the point of feeling like he won't be able to move for the whole of the next week but the next day after waking up he was all good as new. This further increased the speed of his training and allowed him to see quicker results in his journey.

Two months quickly passed and during this time Usopp greatly progressed. He had well-defined muscles by now which would leave any aesthetic bodybuilder to shame but that was not the end of his training.

With time the number of weights he was lifting naturally increased and by now he was able to curl 80kg of dumbbells. Though it felt difficult for now, he was confident that within a week he would be needing to shift to a heavier weight just like before.

The image of Zoro lifting weights even bigger than himself flashed in his mind which made him realize that lifting such heavyweights in this world was not a big deal for strong people who had been training for years.

Luckily for him, he was able to recover from exerting his body just after a good night's rest. This meant that his journey of gaining strength would be much quicker than the rest.