This is what out of shape looks like

Alexithymiaa: -Steph stepped into the gym with her bag over her shoulder, glancing around a little excitedly because she hadnt been to aan actual gym in a long ass time. Following the to the left, she stepped into the larger room and dropped her bag down onto the floor in the corner. "So what's first? Maybe we should do shoulders? That would probably help with strokes. Rowing machines?" She asked eagerly.-
Covet: "We're going to work on a little bit of everything, Legs, shoulders, back, arms. But first, we're going to stretch." Felix told her. "Rowing machines would actually be good for some cardio too." He said as he set his bag down and started stretching his shoulders, pulling his arm across his chest with his other, then swung it around a couple of times before doing the same to the other.
Alexithymiaa: "Isn't that kind of a lot?" She asked, stepping away to give herself some space. She stretched her arms above her head and then bent to one side, reaching as far as she could to stretch her arms and back.-
Covet: "No, it's fewer reps, because where we want you to build muscle, we also want you to keep it toned, especially for swimming. I know it's a dude, but look at Michael Phelps. Does he have muscle? Yes, but he's not super insanely built though either." He told her as he stretched his back.
Alexithymiaa: "Uh... have you seen Michael Phelps? Because he's completely ripped." Dropping her arms, she rolled her shoulders back and her neck around before leaning forward and wrapping her arms around her knees, her cheek pressed against her legs. "I came up with a diet plan too. Probably more because I was bored in class, but having a chart I think will be easier to keep myself on track. And it's color coded." She beamed at herself. I would too. I love color coding.-
Covet: "But it's not beefy ripped. It's toned ripped." Felix said with a laugh moving to stretch his legs. " Oh yeah? That's good, I'm happy to see you so proactive about this. You have a good balance of everything too?" He asked her.
Alexithymiaa: "Ripped." She said blandly before leaning up and pushing her hair out of her face. "It's.... sort of balanced. My proteins are basically all fish because I didn't really know what else to include. I'm struggling getting the breakfast section rounded off though because I don't have time to actually cook anything so what do I eat other than fruit?" She turned to look at some of the machines, trying to figure out a plaan for the evening.-
Covet: "Fish is good, especially if you're making sure to switch it up with both the leaner and fattier fishes." He said. "Are you a fan of eggs? They're a good protien and you can add veggies to them to change it up. Mushrooms are also good, there's a variety of beans too. You can add it in gradually. Nuts are a good option for in the morning too."
Alexithymiaa: "I don't even know the difference between a leaner and fattier fish. Is that sad?" She asked with a smirk, catching the attention of the tv as she watched some NINJA WARRIOR because Ive been watching it for three hours. "I like eggs, but I don't have time to cook them in the morning so it makes it more of a weekend thing when I don't have to be out of the house as early."-
Covet: "No, Tuna... would be a leaner fish, Salmon, is a fattier fish. I'm sure we can find a chart online to give you a better idea." Felix told her. "They take like no time at all if you put them in a mug and microwave them. But we can also make up some protien bars that are made with nuts, and dried fruits, if that would be helpful. Just make up a whole tray then you can have them for the whole week."
Alexithymiaa: (Im grinning so hard at mug eggs.)
Alexithymiaa: "Those arent bad ideas..." She trailed off, considering his suggestions. "I will add them to my chart." Kicking her legs behind her, she looked around. "Okay, where to?"-
Covet: "Okay, since you suggested it, and the cardio would be a good warm up, let's hit up the rowing machines. We'll do 2 minutes then a minute break and another 2 mintues, and so on for fifteen, Kay?" He told her as he headed over that direction.
Alexithymiaa: -She started to head over in the direction of the rowing machines, stopping next to one of them and looking down at it, realizing how much pressure it would put on her knee. "Actually... maybe we could start off with something else." She turned in a circle to look around her, gesturing toward the bars. "Like pull ups or something?"-
Covet: "Stop, you're not bailing now. This was your idea, follow through." He told her putting his hands on her shoulders. "We'll adjust the tension on the machine so it's a little easier, and isn't going to hurt your knee." He said recognizing her fear.
Alexithymiaa: "You can't-" She cut her words when she looked into his face, letting out a deep sigh. "I just... don't want anything bad to happen. I haven't done this in a while..." She moved to sit down in the small seat on the machine, chewing on the inside of her cheek.-
Covet: Felix looked back at her, then watched her give in. "Nothing bad is going to happen Red. Trust me that I'm going to make sure you're not doing anything that's going to cause you harm." He told her then started to change up the tension dial moving it down to one of the lower levels. "Try that and let me know if I need to bump it down more. Remember we're going for two minutes, so looser is going to cause less pain."
Alexithymiaa: "I know, but that doesn't settle the butterflies." She put her feet on the platform and reached for the handles, pulling back and extending once just to test it. "Maybe a little looser?"-
Covet: "The only thing going to do that is doing it." He told her sticking his tongue out. then turned the dial down some more. "How's that?"
Alexithymiaa: "Well it's definitely not you. You've only made butterflies, never killed them." She said, sticking her tongue out in return. She leaned forward and extended again, nodding her head. "I think that's better. We'll see. Do yours."-
Covet: "Awwh, well aren't you sweet." He said with a laugh then climbed onto his own machine, turning the dial down, to just a couple above hers. " Okay, I'm good. Let me hit the workout timer on my phone set to our time limits..." He said then looked at her, "And Go. Make sure your motions are full and fluid."
Alexithymiaa: -When he said go, she started her rowing exercises, trying to do them while supporting more of the pressure on her left leg because nervous still. Its a work in progress. "I bet you I could do more than you in two minutes."-
Covet: "Normally I would take you up on that challenge, but I don't want you to push yourself that hard. And I'm on a higher level then you are so it's not really fair." He said sticking his tongue out at her.
Alexithymiaa: "Equal difficulty is totally fair." She saaid, going just a little bit faster because she was competing whether he realized it or not. She was starting to get tired, which kind of sucked because her muscles never felt this fatigued this fast and it was just a testament to how out of shape she'd gotten.-
Covet: "Fourty five seconds left, pace yourself, We've got fifteen minutes of this." He told her looking at her speed up. " It's not a competition, yet."
Alexithymiaa: "I'm fine." She retorted despite her burning arms. "The first rule of fight club is that it's always a competition, and I'm winning."-
Covet: "This isn't even fight club, this is you trying to do this healthily, and competing when you're not ready for that yet, isn't going to do you any favors." He said keeping his own pace. The timer on his phone beeped and started counting down the one minute break.
Alexithymiaa: -She stopped when the timer went off, leaning her arms on her thighs. "I am being healthy. Competition can be healthy. And I wasn't going hard, I was doing just enough to go faster than you. It was a happy medium, if anything." she said with a wide grin.-
Covet: "Okay, you little shit." Felix said shaking his head at her. "Ten more seconds and we're going again." he said, then when the timer beeped again, he spoke out, "Go."
Alexithymiaa: "You're a little shit." She shot back, leaning forward when the timer beeped to begin again. She started rowing, continuously looking over at him to monitor his speed. "I'm still winning."-
Covet: "You were one first." He said just keeping his same pace because he knew if he went faster she'd just up her game too. "Okay. " Was all he said with a smirk on his face because they still had six more minutes of this and she was going to hurt after this.
Alexithymiaa: (There will be complaining tomorrow)
Covet: [bahaha]
Alexithymiaa: "Is that an old joke? Because you look older than I do anyway. I'm just older on the inside." She grinned, growing tired a little faster on this set than on the last one. "How much time is left?"-
Covet: "Well one of us has to be the older mature one. So if looks count, I can handle that." He said sassing her back. "Thirty more seconds."
Alexithymiaa: "Mature is entirely different. You are definitely not the more mature one of us." Her breathing was a little labored at this point and she was struggling to stay on pace because her arms were falling off. "Okay... thirty seconds... we got this."-
Covet: "You don't get to take claim to child at heart and the maturity card. There's got to be some sort of balance, woman." He said, hearing the beep, resting and shaking out his limbs while their minute counted down.
Alexithymiaa: "Exactly. Balance. That's me. I am balanced. A child at heart, but I know when to be mature and responsible. I'm the perfect balance." She breathed a deep sigh of relief when the timer beeped, all but dropping the handle like a hot potato and letting her arms hang. "I don't remember this ever being this difficult..."-
Alexithymiaa: (I wrote hot pocket first and haad to delete it and write potato.)
Covet: [hahaha]
Covet: "Well like you've said, You haven't been all that active lately, aside from swim practice stuff. So it's going to take some getting used to. Do you want to keep going or do you want to stop?
Covet: *"
Alexithymiaa: "We can keep going. How many more do we have?" She asked, determined not to quit, but her arms might give up before her brain does. "I definitely need to be less lazy...."-
Covet: "Three more." He said to her as he twisted and stretched "You sure you can handle that?"
Alexithymiaa: "Uhhhh.... yeah..." She started to say, waiting for the timer to go off again. She reached for the handle and started the next set, her pace much slower than it haad been before because she was struggling. "Maybe I should do things at home to make coming to the gym aa little easier in the beginning."-
Covet: "Um.. No that wasn't part of the deal, Red. It will only take a couple of weeks once we get into the routine. " He told her standing firm on that decision. He started in keeping at his same pace and he looked over at Steph to check her progress, amused that she was slowing down.
Alexithymiaa: "Okay. It was just an idea because this sucks. I dont think Ive been this out of shape in my whole life." She said, getting to the point where her arms were shaking just to pull back each time.-
Covet: "Yeah but you're familiar with working out, so you'll get back into it quick." He said encouraging. "Okay we're done for the night. You're shaking and that's going to hurt tomorrow."
Alexithymiaa: "I really hope so." When he said they were done for the night, she let her arms give out and drop the handle with a clatter, exhaling deeply. "Ugh... tomorrow. I have to be on set with Bradley and the Kittens by eight."-
Covet: "Oh... We really should have waited to start this until after your shoot. I wasn't even thinking." Felix said rubbing his head. "Need help getting up?"
Alexithymiaa: "It was my idea so if anything, I wasn't thinking. Although it's much more on character for you." She said with a forced smile because she waas tired. She shook her heaad and pushed up to her feet, her arms feeling heavy at her sides. "I was going to make a joke about army crawling out of here, but I don't even think I could do that right now. However I will allow you to carry my bag to the car."-
Covet: "Okay, I can do that much. We can get home and take a warm shower and I'll rub your arms down." He told her walking over to grab their bags then went to open up the door for her, so they could go back home.