Training on the Plateau

Kiyoshi woke up because the sun was hot on his face. He rolled over and tried to sleep some more, but he couldn't fall back asleep. The day was bright and humid, decent weather for a walk, if it weren't so hot. Kiyoshi looked over at his clock, it was already eleven in the evening. He felt good about himself for waking up so early.

"Kiyoshi! Get up. You can't sleep all day." he heard Ao call. Normally, Ao was shouting at him while he was still asleep. He stood from his bed, got dressed, ate breakfast, and left for a plateau he had found one day in the forest. It was about an hour run, if you didn't rush it too much, so it was a decent warm up.

He sprinted through the trees as fast as he could, dodging by branches. The plateau wasn't visible from any paths, so unless you wanted to try and navigate to it, getting there was guesswork. Kiyoshi was out of breath when he reached the plateau. Once he was there, he decided to do some laps around the side of the plateau. With his heart rate pumping, he leapt to the top of the plateau to work on his Jutsu.

(WORD COUNT: 208)
(Stat Trained: Stamina)

Kiyoshi leaned against a rock to catch his wind. The sun was now high in the sky, and clouds of dust were stirring from the breeze. Kiyoshi moved on to the next stage in his training. He picked up a boulder, holding it over his head while he dead squats. The boulder weighed around twice his weight. His muscles yearned for rest, but he couldn't stop yet. Once his legs gave out, he layed on the ground and did chest presses.

His arms felt like they were on fire, but he forced himself to keep it up. He laughed at the way his biceps twitched spasmodically, they looked like jelly wobbling around. When he finally ran out of strength, he swung his arms around to get his blood flowing. He fell forward to the ground, waiting until his nose was just about to smash into the rocky ground before catching himself and starting in on push ups. "One... two... three... four... five..." Of all the training he did, push ups were his least favorite. They exhausted him the most, but they did yield the best results.

Finally, he switched to doing fisted push ups. Once he did a few hundred of those, he balanced on his hand and balanced a boulder on his feet. He kept his legs straight and lowered himself down by his arms. When his nose brushed the ground, he pushed back up.
With aching muscles, he took a rest before starting the next part of his training.

(Word Count: 251, Stat Trained: Strength)

+1 Stamina +1 Strength +4 JP