Chapter 260 - Training Like Hell
The second phase of training was weight and conditioning training. The personal trainers assessed each individual and their playing styles and chosen classes and made them work on the corresponding body part.
If one was a thief and hence a agility based player , then they would be given lower body and flexibility conditioning excercises for agility and explosive power.
The guild members would be given specific excercises based on their body type. If someone's hamstring was tight , then they would be pushed to stretch the hamstring under the supervision of the physiotherepists and the trainer . Then given excercises like lunges and squats to do .
The weak muscles would be given strength first to give overall balance to the untrained body.?Just like gym , this training will leave the body in severe pain and cramp for the first few days , soo much soo that even walking would be difficult.
One would generally do it slowly , and take their time to build strength , but that approach would take a lot of time , about 3-6 months , to complete it in one month , one needed to go hard , and bear with the strain on the body.
Rudra did plan to supplement it with excellent nutritional fluids and food and give a complementary spa and massage service at night to all tired players to recuperate , but he would not announce it right now.
Rudra would do everything that was needed to be done from his side , but he would ask 100% from the members side too.
The strength training was not as hard as running for the members. As on the first day with high spirits they did tackle the excercises they were given.
Each member had a personal trainer , hence there would be no mistakes done in technique execution and counting of sets. A member has to complete the sets as the trainer would be counting , they could not count skip even if they wanted to .
The physical training was followed by professional training. The basics of every weapon were taught by professionals and the guild members were made to practice these basics.
The Archer classes in the game who would shoot a rabbit from 200 meters away , could not even hit the whole circular practice target from 20 meters away.
Everything was wrong , from the posture , to the aiming to the power behind the string.
While the swordsmen without their flashy skills lacked substance in training. Their sharp swords could not even cut through a bamboo plant clean as the technique was soo poor.
The members were taught from the very basics of how to hold a sword to how to swing it. The trainers trained the members in the very basics about how to draw a sword out correctly. However due to time constraints they had to keep it simple till the members got a basic feel for it atleast .
The last training was the martial arts training , and the development of internal energy. The Chinese in the 15 th century developed a very terrifying technique to draw out the innate force of human body to its maximum. That technique used a force called internal force to more than quadruple the power behind one's attacks.
It was rumored that the most powerful and profound internal force masters could land a hit as powerful as 20 times the normal force.
The concept behind internal force was that , during fight or flight situations , the human body showed extreme power far beyond what they could usually.
If it was purely adrenaline , then it was not possible , but the reason must be a mixture of various enzymes and the actual untapped potential of the muscles.
The internal force was a way to activate those enzymes without a fight or flight response , to strengthen the muscles and draw that hidden power.
It was a very profound technique that daoist spent their lives trying to achieve. It was believed that there were 5 levels in this journey of internal masters.
The first was layman , someone who just knew how to feel internal energy and manipulate it to increase strength by a factor of two.
The second was a journeyman , someone who could manipulate it by a factor of four.
The third was a expert , someone who could manipulate it times eight.
Fourth was a master , someone who could manipulate it with a factor of eight.
And the last was a grandmaster , someone who could manipulate it with a factor of sixteen or more.
Uptill now the peak of this technique was achieved by a daoist in the 18th century , who had said to achieved a factor of 20 , which was a unprecedented level till date.
The world currently had 3 known masters , and while some rumors about internal energy grandmasters existed , none were confirmed.
One such internal energy master was Aron Rothschild , the late father of Edge . Who was a absolute prodigy.
Edge himself has trained in internal force , and was a layman at age 16 , after which no public news about his advancements were released. Rudra assumed him to be a internal energy journeyman by now.
Yume was a expert in internal energy manipulation , as a monk , he had trained in the force for over 2 decades and had great advancements in the field.
Yume was actually even better than the instructors teaching here , and hence personally gave pointers to Rudra , Karna and Neatwit. Who were directly learning under the man.
Rudra did not expect to become a layman by the end of the month , however he knew that he wanted to become one in the long run. If one was incredibly talented , he could ideally breakthrough to layman stage after a month of training , however Rudra never put himself in the slot of geniuses , he started the training with 0 expectations and full dilligence.
The various Buddhist mudras and the ancient battle styles broadened his horizons.
The modern man no longer used swords and shields and bows and javelins to fight , every worthwhile technique was made in the 15th to 18 th century. And every one of them was a priceless treasure to have.
At the end of the training , the guild members were soo dead tired that they no longer had the energy to even move.
They were glad that it was lunch time as without that they would have probably died of hunger. The food tasted heavenly as they were too hungry , they did not care that everyone had gotten different meals depending on what the nutritionists felt was right for them. They were just glad that they had food , period.
Rudra chatted casually with the members who were stuffing food in their faces, as he offered consolation that yes all physical excercises were done for the day .
He also told them about the spa and massage and sauna and jacuzzi services that would be available for all participants after training for the day ends .
The gesutre was much welcomed with a thunderous applause , as everyone wanted to feel the heavely releif of the massage and hot water after this hell of a training.
However training for the day was not completely over yet as They log into Omega soon, the levelling spree awaits them.