Atharv's pov
"I'm waiting Atharv. Where are you lost? I don't have the full damn day. Just drop down and give me 20 crunches."
"Yes sir"
I started the crunches painfully and I was lost in some old memories to forget about the pain. Well until I just heard him saying that-
"This one doesn't count coz I didn't hear you."
I then tried to be louder. "Sixteen, Seventeen, Eighteen, Nineteen, ugh twenty."
I took a few moments to get my breathing near normal, got up, and held my hand towards him while looking at his little less angry face. He handed me that 50 kg weight. I put it on my back.
"Can I get some water after I finish this round?"
"I'll think about that if your timings of this round allow me to do so."
This round was really killing me. Somehow I reached, gasping. My mouth was so dry I couldn't even ask for water.
"Get up."
Can he give me a moment to return back to life?
I stood up using all four limbs, so as not to fall and hurt myself. He held out his hand for 'the bag' and I gladly took it out and gave back to him. Then we did some stretching so that I do not get cramps. This is how my first official day of training began!
Then it was almost noon after he told me to do a few simple exercises for restoring my 'lost flexibility'. Then we went to have some lunch.
I was just ready to puke at the sight of 'The Lunch'. But I did not let any hatred show on my face otherwise I'll be screwed badly. Yes, I am speaking it from the past experience that I had. He also called Coach Nick and Kiara for the lunch. Nick had screwed Kiara badly and she was looking like a fragile doll. Awww my lil sister!!!
Anyways, we had the lunch in silence since I was tired as hell and Kiara too was looking exhausted. However, Coach Sid and Nick talked about the upcoming events. After the food, the duo gave us 20 minutes to walk around since we can't do heavy exercises just after the meal. But I was too tired so instead I laid down on the ground when the duo left us alone and I lost the track of time and slowly drifted to sleep, only to be woken up by a bucketful of ice cold water and a pissed off Coach. Siddharth.
Kiara was laughing her ass off on seeing my condition and I shot her a glare. I mean she should have waken me up on seeing the duo coming back. Coach Nick strictly ordered me to go to locker room and change so that I don't get cold and be back in 5 minutes.
Throughout the day, Coach Sid screwed me badly, both by his rude comments and painful exercises. Mostly he made me run two rounds followed by a set of simple yet heavy exercises. A few more sets of 20 crunches to calm my temper down, were there.
By evening when sun was about to set, I was drained. I could not keep my eyes open and my mind straight. He sensed it and before I could say it, he said, "You are about to die, aren't you?"
"Yes sir, yes."
Looking at his wrist watch "But there are literally hours of training remaining for the day."
HOURS? I can't stand any single minute!
"I can.." Oh s**t. I was about to break his rule of never saying a no to any exercise and never to give up.
"I what? Come again!"
"I.. I.. can.. only request you, please stop for today. I don't have so much of stamina to work for hours. Please sir."
"Yeah I see that. Besides I have to work on your stamina again. Stamina builds only when you move out of your comfort zone. Remember this. But I guess you have had enough for the day. Alright."
Oh holy God. Thanks for being so kind. I was about to go when he stopped me.
"Wait. From now onwards you will have to give me 50 pushups at the end of each day. This will be your last task and you can go then."
WHAT?? I can't do this. 50 is a big number seeing my drained body. Of course I did not said it aloud. It'll only earn me 20 crunches.
I never thought I could hate pushups ever. But right now, it's the worst thing on earth. I lost the count of how many times I fell tonight. The only thing that mattered was that damned number 50.
I was hugging mother earth when he said "Get used to this. Tomorrow morning. Same place same time. For day after tomorrow and the coming days, I'll inform you the timings since you have a school that day. And probably from next week, you're getting a fifteen days winter break in school. But here, as you know, there are no holidays. You will be reporting at the same time as today whenever there is an off at school. We clear?"
"Yes sir. I tried not to shot him a glare."
"If you come early, you can do stretching. If you reach after, start running without a doubt. And cramps are never an excuse. Ok?"
"Yes coach."
"Ok. Now go and get Kiara. She's wandering here from the past 1.5 hours. Maybe Nick left her early. I'll drop both of you to home."
"No sir, it's alright! I'll give a call to dad. He'll pick us up."
"Don't argue with me. I am dropping you home. Also I have something to discuss with you dad."
I gulped and left to call Kiara. I wondered what he wanted to discuss with dad!