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Training Lessons

作者: Winmo
last update publish date: 2026-05-21 16:53:16

~Lyra's POV~

Dane didn't believe in warm-ups the way most trainers did.

His version of a warm-up was thirty minutes of footwork drills that left your calves burning and your ankles questioning every decision you'd ever made. Then, if he felt generous, he'd let you catch your breath for sixty seconds before the real work started.

I had been at it for a week now. I was not yet at the point where I stopped hating the first thirty minutes.

"You're dropping your left shoulder," he said, circling me
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