Strength of a Hundred (training)

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Day 1 - Tython

She was dripping sweat as she ran, at full speed. For hours upon hours. She was training herself, pushing her limits. Tahl was studying the Matukai philosophy. Trying to better herself in her own techniques, she was using exercise as a form of meditation. This was how she was keeping herself clean and strong, purifying herself through physical activity. She ran and ran with sweat dripping down her face.

It didn't really help that she was running across land that had trees, bushes, tall grasses, and many possible wile animals, set up like obstacle courses. There was a lot of agility involved as well. Jumping over fallen trees, ducking under branches, pushing through bushes, and vines. Once she came out she had accumulated scraps, and scratches from forcing her way through flora. As much as she wanted to stop she just couldn't, this was the only way she was going to achieve balance and harmony between the spiritual force, and the physical body.

She came to an open grove, where she stopped and quickly lost the control to stand up. She had to use her hands, placed on her knees, as support to keep herself from falling over out of exhaustion. She was breathing extremely heavy. This was part of her training she had to get to this point so that she could call upon the force to refresh her spirit with a tireless energy that allowed her to exert her body far past her unaided physical limits for hours at a time without tiring. Though she wasn't a master at this technique yet, though she was adept enough to refresh some of her stamina back, with the aid of her natural affinity for Battlemind.

She stood back up, still exhausted but with energy to keep herself moving, and working out. Tahl moved to lay on the ground slowly. She laid on her stomach with her hands on the ground in push up position. She began doing a rigorous amount of push ups. Her arms quickly became sore, and with her already not being at full strength this was a difficult task to do. She pushed through, using Battlemind to keep replenishing her stamina. Not only was she training the physical body, but also her mental abilities as well.

Tahl flipped over, and began doing sit ups, her face showed the intense pain she was experiencing. She was on the brink of tears, while doing this. This was complete torture, but thus the matukai philosophy. That's probably what kept her going; thinking about how much she would gain from pushing herself through the training regime. She began to cry from the pain. Her body was signaling her to stop, telling her that she had reached her limits. She hadn't stopped though, there was so much to gain; the grass was greener on the other side.

Matukai philosophy encouraged physical exercises in hopes of developing an inherently weak connection to the Force into something stronger. This was her goal and once Tahl finished her last set, she force herself up. This wasn't easily down as all her muscles were completely in pain. She slowly rose up, and began to run again with the little energy she had left. With every stride there was Hugh sigh of exhaustion; she was gasping for air.

Though now she was just a step closer to being the best.

 

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Day 2 - Tython

Tahl was going to be focusing on her immense strength, and form this day. She was standing in front of a large boulder. She had to keep her focus inward, this inward focus allowed Tahl such a degree of control over her body as to develop an otherwise negligible connection to the Force into a far more significant source of strength. She needed to become capable of drawing on the force to strengthen and augment her body to unnatural limits until it became second nature to her. This was all in preparation to reach balance and harmony between the spiritual Force and the physical body.

She stood in front of this boulder that was probably four times her weight, she stretched her arms out. Then she prepared to lift it. She bent her knees, and went down, wrapping her arms around the bolder. She exerted as much strength as she could. This was to the point of her veins becoming clearly visible. Her muscles started to show, and protrude. It was a process to lifting it, it slowly rose off the ground and into her grips. She slowly straightened her legs, and held the boulder in mid air. That part was over, but what she really had to do was carry this thing.

Her eyes widened, as she was preparing to lift the boulder above her head. She let out a scream, as it was raised a over her head. The weight caused her legs to buckle a little. But she pushed through, calling on the force to argument her strength and replenish her stamina reserves. She was already past her limits by just performing this lift. She slowly, while her foot was shaking took one step forward with her right foot. She was breathing heavily, already tired. It seemed as if she had already travelled a distance, ith this one step.

She took another step, with her left foot shaking just as much as her right did. After every step it seemed as though her entire body was gonna buckle underneath this gigantic piece of earth she had above her head. It was true, that if she dropped this thing she could kill herself. She took another step with her right, and her left leg gave and she feel to her knee. The boulder had almost collapsed on top of her, but she kept it up, exerting more and more strength. Tahl's teeth became viable as she began clinching them.

Her face scrunched up as she was beginning to stand back up. Her legs began shaking as she was forcing them to move. She force her body to move, and her she rose to her feet, but her legs were still bent, and her body slightly haunched. She took another step with her left leg. "I'm...almost...the....there!" She quickly stepped with her right leg,and threw the boulder down. As the boulder hit the ground so did she in complete exhaustion. She laid there laying on her right side, and her eyes barely open, with sweat dripping down her face and arms just as moist. She laid there completely depleted of energy.

After what seems like years, she finally came to the point where her mind functioned enough for her to question why she was laying on the ground. She used what little energy she had to call upon the force again to replenish her stamina reserves. As Tahl tried her hardest to get up, she was crying trying to force her body to move. She couldn't feel her arms, or legs. She slowly raised to her feet, though haunched over. She fell down to her knees, but managed to stand back up. Now all she had to do was use her immense strength to shatter this boulder, and this couldn't be done with one punch; not at her level of exhaustion.

She stood before the boulder once more, trying her hardest to get her fist to ball up. In her head she was saying "C'mon....C'mon..." She punched the boulders ending a few cracks down its center. But that just wasn't enough. She used her left to punch it again and a couple of hunks flew from where the cracks were. Tahl's innate ability for Battlemind had helped her gain her morale, and obtain a fiery passion that inspired her to keep going, and push through it all. Her speed increased, and she began punching the boulder back to back with immense strength crushing it to pieces. After her arduous training regime had reach its completion she feel down to her knees, and her hands were dripping blood. She fell on her back, and laid there for the rest of the day, she had nothing left at this point.

She had displayed the strength of a hundred.

 

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Day 3 - Tython

Tahl was deep in meditation, she was trying to purge all the negative emotions from her body. There was one thing she hadn't really gotten complete control over, and that was her monstrous temper. So every now and then when she would arduously train like this she took time to meditate, focusing on the Force, and avoiding the taint of the dark side. Matukai teaching emphasized a flexibility of spirit that avoided becoming flustered or upset in order to maintain a stress-free and relaxed state. This teaching was to allow the body to focus the Force with greater efficiency. She came out of the meditation after quite some time to perform another meditative art; The Arch Pose.

She took off her shoes, and her jacket. She stood up, and let her feet take in the earth beneathe her. With her feet placed firmly on the ground, she started to bend over so that she could do the same with her hands. once she got herself situated she then arched her body into a rounded shape, with the buttocks as high as she could put them. This would go on for sometime. After the pain would subside from stretching her body, she would try and go further by trying to make her body take on a more and more rounded shape. All that ran through her mind was the means to center oneself and find deep inner peace.

After sometime of deep mediation, and stretching she stood back up. Now she was going to perform one more meditative art, probably the most strenuous of the three. Tahl was going to stand in multiple stances for hours, in hopes of allowing the Force to flow through her in the process. She had decided she would incoporate some of her "Steel Hands" training into this exercise as well. Since she was exercising the mind today she felt she should practice closing off her mind. She took the defensive stance of Teras Kasi, with her eyes closed she began to focus.

Over time her body would physically tire from complex positions and dizzying movements, but this was her training, she had to keep at this, and follow through without giving in to the exhaustion of her body. Tahl quieted all external distractions consciously. Her goal was to awakening a feeling within herself that she could complete any task she was faced with. She was beginning to clear her mind and attune her body to the strength of the Force. Her arms began to shake, and succumb to pain from holding them up constantly in multiple positions. She began to feel dizzy, and off balance. Slowly succumbing to tiredness, and exhaustion. This was Tahls goal. She felt her connection to the force getting stronger over the last couple of days.

She had succeeded with purging her body of the negative emotions, and she felt renewed, refreshed in the force.