Zhuan An 4

Zhuan An, giving her all into the coaching really showed in the results Xiao Fan could make with the one-arm overhead press, as having taken everything in and applying them to the best of his learning abilities could Xiao Fan quickly better his technique.

His learning speed was enough to awe her who had taken thousands of repetitions under the eye of her father to get proficient in this one hand movement.

For Xiao Fan only after doing some hundred repetitions with the short barbell could be said to be ready for his initial testing. Sure, he wasn't on her skill level or even the normal level of the inner sect disciples; however, that didn't mean he couldn't be tested. Furthermore, it would be funny to think that Xiao Fan's technique would hold when the weight would be added, not speaking when he would do his one-rep maximum.

¨That's good¨ Zhuan An have him a completed for the umpteenth time before deciding this was enough practice ¨Now drop the weight for a moment so that I can add in the weight¨ Plus of course, she wasn't complimenting him for only him being him, even her father would have done the same seeing this.

¨Why do you want me to drop the weight? Can't you add the weights when the short barbell is in my hand?¨ Xiao Fan didn't get the simple idea of safety.

Which of Zhuan An told him ¨Safety reasons. Maybe now doing so would be okay, but it will grow into a bad habit if you do so often, and as you are a newbie it is a must¨ She didn't give him a choice as she took his hand and then pushed him to drop the weight nicely towards the ground.

¨Now follow me¨ Then she ordered him to follow her as she was leaving to find plates to add into the barbell.

¨Sure thing coach¨ Xiao Fan humoured, then walking next to her and following her to a place where plates were being stacked on top of each other in massive piles.

In these mountains, before the two must be enough iron to forge swords for an entire peasant army for god's sake, and there was even more of them, lying behind these two mountains that seemed to be the frequently used stack of weights, and these stacks were already taller than the two of them added in.

¨Care to tell me what this thing is? Your iron mine?¨ Xiao Fan joked more when seeing this closer for the first time. During the last times coming here, he never got a chance to look at these things other than seeing it in the background, and some madman had even moved all of this when he had been here during the trial.

¨Very funny, ha haa. We keep all of our weights stored here. You take them from here, and you bring them back here when you are finished¨ She spoke the obvious.

¨Thank you, very insigtful¨ Xiao Fan replied in the same tone.

¨Get these¨ Zhuan An in trainer mode didn't continue whatever was befalling and took back the hold of order in her training session. She wouldn't mind doing wacky things with him at all and would have loved it, but now wasn't the time she battles her wants.

¨Oh so you mark these plates with their weights?¨ He said when taking out plates that had the number twenty on them.

¨Yes, every plate is marked either twenty, fifty, hundred, two hundred, three hundred, if you want heavier then look at the back mountain, but one shouldn't need them¨ She spoke what he wanted to hear.

¨You don't think I need more?¨ He said, packing his hand full of the twenty-kilogram plates.

¨If we need more then we come back for more¨ She said as she was already leaving with a few heavier plates.

¨A few hundred kilograms should be too hard¨ Xiao Fan boasted to her, hoping this time it would go better than it had gone with Du Lan and the Serpent's Bone Bow.

¨Sure thing, I can lift around three hundred, so you shouldn't be too much worse. After all, we are in the same grade¨ She spoke knowing that saying her numbers would make Xiao Fan reach for that number.

¨Sure something like that¨ Of course, he took the bait, though he then went on a sidetrack ¨I do like the system where you have weighted the plates. You might not know, but I trained with monkeys a lot in the past. They didn't have an idea of doing so; instead, they simply went with what felt heavy and what didn't¨ Xiao Fan sure felt like marking how much something weights was a nice idea.

¨You trained with monkeys? Lived with monkeys?¨ She questioned, but her conformation became quickly as Xiao Fan speaking monkey cut her off from speaking more.

¨Ugh. That's nasty, no more¨ Though she also cut him off from speaking right after hearing a little sound test from him. Monkeys? Those were ugly and hairy all over, and those were not things to be associated with her moon and stars, she would much prefer if he didn't talk like this, ever again.

Xiao Fan seeing how much she disliked this stopped doing so and laughed. It would seem that Zhuan An was still very much part of the Rising Fox Sect, so things like monkeys weren't something to be favoured.

¨First, we'll put the fifties to each side and then work from there, hundred kilo lifts¨ She, again cut him off, and thankfully she had a good reason, for they were already back at the spot from which they had left to get the weights.

Noting this, he walked over to the short barbell so that he could help her with the loading of weights, but on the way there as he was right behind her, he made one more monkey noise, which sent shivers down her spine and made her look at Xiao Fan with an evil eye.

¨No talking that language when around me, or I'll not help you with your training¨ She somehow uttered this threat out of her. Zhuan An Sure wouldn't want to lose this privilege given to her; however, if it meant him being like this, it might be okay not to do it to preserve his image.

Yet her threat only got chuckles as he came to her level and put the other fifty-kilogram weight onto the bar and then proceeded to pick it up.

Still, even if her threat was not taken seriously, she did her best to help him succeed by reminding him ¨Remember the weight is heavy. The biggest thing that you need to be mindful of now is the balance, the weight weighs more than you for sure¨

¨I'll keep that in mind¨ He acknowledged her worry when he was getting the weight over to his shoulder level. Even not doing that would have reality made him realise this, for the weight could very much, so take him with it, as the bar with the plates seemed to hold more power when it came to gravity.

Nevertheless, now that he could feel the plates touching his shoulder, he should be ready to lift, yet something felt amiss to him in this, as if he was supposed to balance this where his body would go?

However, this notion was realised by Zhuan An, watching him standing there like nothing special should be going on, and so she made the movement that she might have in all her excitement forgotten to show.

¨Look¨ She spoke, making the movement Xiao Fan was trying to realise himself.

He took a look and made notes while he was taking the idea with his eyes and then thought about it for a second 'Thank the gods that she doesn't wear too much' He even made an extra thought, well, it was for a good reason as like he said, her having revealing clothes made it easy to know which parts of the body one should move.

With his robes, there would have been next to no chance to decipher what was going on.

Then as he now knew what to do to balance the weight that was bigger than his head, he dipped from his knees so that he could use them to commence the upwards momentum, which helped a lot. For when he then sprang up and timed the ending of that to the timing of starting the hand movement, the hundred-kilo weight went over his head in a flash.

Yet Xiao Fan wasn't given much thought to this. He had all his concentration focussed on his body that should lean a little to the side so that the hand would be a straight line in the middle of his balance, which was also the only spot where these weights could be lifted with one arm over one's head.

To him, the first lift felt pretty successful he thought it together with coming out of the slight lean slowly and dropping the weight back to his shoulder. When the weight was back to his shoulder, he made this move five more times, trying to think with his feelings more than anything, the idea was to get his own grasp of this.

The coach watching this, let him do this. Zhuan An thought the same way he did, she would give him a few tries to get the hang of the lift and would then take over the refining of the movement, even if there seemed to be little to go over since Xiao Fan right in front of her improved considerably with every lift, and towards the correct way mind you.

¨Amazing!¨ She loudly exclaimed at the empty training field when Xiao Fan had dropped the bar into the ground.

¨I did good?¨ Xiao Fan felt like he had done well, but all he did was also things that he had felt like doing, there was no strategy or thinking in it, he did what felt natural and didn't do what didn't feel natural to him, so he was a little surprised to get such a high praise from her.

¨It was like you were a natural¨ She yet couldn't get back to her coach-mode where she tried to strict and not too familiar, now she couldn't but applaud him.

¨What happens most of the time when people put more weights into the lift their technique will falter, yet during the first try you didn't lose any the things I said to you earlier, and then you began to understand what you should be doing...¨ She went for a while, telling how well he was doing, explaining something from every one of his lifts and telling them to the smallest detail she saw. She was surely ecstatic, and her body couldn't hide it either.

¨Thank you for such high praise. But remember I had a good teacher¨ When she was over with the lecture Xiao Fan decided to calm her down a little, or she would be going on some extra gear he didn't know.

Though thanking and praising her might not have been the best idea to try and calm her down, seeing as the whole idea was to calm her down not to add into the girl's excitement. And so despite him wanting something other to happen the reality of it was that Zhuan An couldn't hold it in anymore.

And her being this close Xiao Fan didn't get to react a lot before the person who had been meters apart had now in a flash teleported on him and now trying to kiss him? Wait, this was a public place? An outdoor gym no less! He went over thoughts in flashed while she was already locking their lips.

'This girl' He thought. She was trying something like this in a place like this. An outdoor gym where at least the guards were somewhere hiding wasn't the place to be kissing.

Yet those rational thoughts didn't stay in him long.