Gym - Friday Afternoon

[armybrat-lois.livejournal.com]

Now that Lois wasn't taking a phys ed class anymore, she was responsible for her own exercise. Which kind of sucked. She had to put in effort and everything into it now. That was kind of lame. At least she didn't have to wear stupid uniforms in here.

Lois had Lady Gaga blasting and decided to start off with some stretches. She was thinking about moving on to the punching bag after. She was always up for punching something.

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[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah figured a short work-out to get herself loosened up before seeing Miss Atreides would be a good idea. She recognized Lois from the TV show class when she got in. "Hey, Lois."

[armybrat-lois.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Lois said, pulling herself into a sitting position. "Dinah, right?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Right," Dinah said, sitting down to do a few stretches too. "Are you going to need the bag? I was thinking of doing a few sets with it, nothing long."

[armybrat-lois.livejournal.com]

"You go right ahead," Lois said with a smile. "I was thinking about hitting the bag but I might just stop at the stretches. It's been a while since I've worked out. I'm kind of lazy now."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah grinned back, reaching for her toes. "Cooool. Thanks. What kind of training do you do?" Stretch to the left, stretch to the right. "I've maybe got a different work-out later, I don't want to get too tired."

[armybrat-lois.livejournal.com]

"Oh, nothing in particular," Lois said as she pulled her leg back a little to stretch her thigh. "Here I mostly do a lot of cardio and some kickboxing. I'm a black belt in karate but I'm out of practice. I kind of slack when my dad isn't around to grumble at me."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"You're a black belt? Whoa." Dinah got to her feet, eyes wide. "I've only been doing this a bit over a year. Mostly kickboxing. Stuff that works with eskrima." She bounced up, then down on her toes, looking hopeful. "Would you be up for a spar, sometime? I'm nowhere up to black belt, but I'm good. Not a beginner."

[armybrat-lois.livejournal.com]

Lois grinned and got up off the floor so she could stretch out her arms. "Sure, I'm game. Like I said, I'm out of practice. But I think I can remember most of it."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Awesome!" Dinah got into ready position, a little smile lurking around the edges of her mouth. "Any time you're ready."

[armybrat-lois.livejournal.com]

It had been a while since Lois had done this but she was pretty confident that she wouldn't get her ass handed to her too badly. She got into ready position and smiled at Dinah.

"Okay," she said. She paused for a moment or so before reaching out to strike at Dinah's ribs.

They were girls. Lois wouldn't try for the face first. That'd be mean.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Which Dinah totally appreciated, since she played by the same rules with Helena. Good blusher to cover battle bruises was hell to find.

Grinning, Dinah blocked the strike, taking it on her forearm, and followed it up with a jab from her other hand toward Lois's shoulder. Yay! Sparring!

Dinah might've been a little faster than Lois, but her form wasn't as good.

[armybrat-lois.livejournal.com]

Lois was more out of shape than she thought since the hit connected. Luckily it hadn't hurt too bad and she only had to roll it around a few times before she got the feeling back into it.

"Man, I'm really out of practice," she said.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Why'd you stop practicing?" Dinah wondered, moving sideways and looking for another opening. Hmm. No, wait, wait, for the attack...

She always sucked at that part, and tried a crescent-kick to Lois's side, leaving herself open for a counter-attack.

[solo_sword]

When Jaina got there late, deal, the first words out of her mouth were, "I don't think I've ever heard music down here before."

[armybrat-lois.livejournal.com]

By this time Lois was lying on the mat, sprawled out, and trying to remember just why she agreed to spar with Dinah.

"Who exercises without music?" she asked.

[solo_sword]

"You mean besides me? Usually I see Cal in here, and Ben, ran into Ender once..." she grinned.

[armybrat-lois.livejournal.com]

Lois grinned. "You guys have a stronger will to exercise than I do. Without music I'd get distracted and the next you know I'd be lying on the floor, thinking about going to sleep."

Er.

[solo_sword]

Jaina had to laugh. "That's a great image," she said. "How're you doing? You look kind of done."

[armybrat-lois.livejournal.com]

"Dinah wanted me to spar with her. Which is something I hadn't done in...a while," she said. Lois sighed. "I think I got my ass kicked."

[solo_sword]

"Yeah, generally we try to avoid that part," Jaina said helpfully. Oh, look, she was actually in a good enough mood to tease.

[armybrat-lois.livejournal.com]

"So you're saying I'm doing it wrong?" she asked, giggling.

[solo_sword]

"No, you're probably getting the ass-kicking done right, but the sparring, maybe not so much," Jaina said. "Things like dodging and blocking might be something to work on."

[armybrat-lois.livejournal.com]

"Blocking, yes," she said, sitting and putting her arms across her knees. "That would be much better than taking every hit."

[solo_sword]

"Keep it in mind," she said. "Need anything? Icepack? Cute masseuse? That one might be harder for me to find."

[armybrat-lois.livejournal.com]

"Oh, Jaina. This whole school is filled with cute masseuses," she said. "It's just that they aren't professionals. And they look a lot like teenage boys."