Back to the workout

Adriana did her jumping rope exercises, that range from the basic jump too complicated motions involving swinging the rope while you jump.

The coach made you do other exercises with an elastic band and lifting weights, because with your fucked up knee you could not do the same as her.

Then you moved to shadow boxing, then other cardio stuff, and so on. You get tired in within 10 minutes, exhausted in 20, dead within 30, but Adriana kept going on and on with everything this guy was making you do, her skin glowing from the sweat, face a bit red, and her muscles clearly in evidence for the effort.

She did a clever trick to not have the queue of her hair bouncing around: she pushed it under one of the straps of her gym top.

They both saw you were definitely reaching your (very low) limit, and that you were keeping up on sheer stubbornness to not let her do it alone, so the coach makes you stop, saying that for a beginner you had already did a lot, and that your body could not yet endure the intensity they were used to after years and years of training.

Adriana knew you well at that point, so she asked you to stop too, realising you was not going to do it before collapsing if you didn't have her approval.

She went on for more than an hour and a half, making a total of two with the already passed half one.

She is really is amazing to see, she works as hard as an olympic athlete at the gym, and the results shows clearly on how amazing she looks at 35 [we are still in 2016, so in the story she didn't had her 36th and 37th birthdays yet as in real life. Not that something on her look changed anyway, this woman doesn't age!].

It's no surprise that she was very tired after this: thank God, it means she is human too! You both hit the showers straight after, but since they were of course separate between males and females you couldn't do it together.

Coming out she put on other sport clothes she had with her as change, and you give back what the trainer borrowed to you, offering to pay for the washing but he politely declined in his friendly manners.

You greeted him, that besides some sweat was still fresh like after just waking up, you had no idea how he could do that, and you left for her NYC apartment.