Workout Secret
Josh could hear the rock music blaring from the varsity weight room even before he put his key in the lock. Surely no one would be working out this early in the morning after the last game in the season, so the janitor must have left the stereo and all the lights on. As he entered, however, a big smile spread across his face. The person on the leg press sled was obviously female, was wearing a cheerleader's little workout top, and was using a stack of plates far heavier than any of the other girls on the squad - It must be Liz, but evidently she didn't hear him over the music.
He started daydreaming about how Liz was the reason for the great season they just finished. It had been lousy being on a losing football team for his first two years here. When this year started out, it seemed like it was going to be even worse when the cheerleaders demanding access to the varsity fitness center. After the initial uproar, however, the cheerleading squad proved themselves to be strong athletes. Even better was that they transformed the whole attitude and culture in the weight room: they were intense and dedicated lifters, but they were also extremely sexy and inspiring training partners. They turned around the whole jock-goof culture and the football players came together to become the strongest and best-conditioned team in the league. So Liz was really the single most important factor in bringing them to their first winning season in fourteen years.
His daydream was interrupted as he finally noticed her workout. Despite the fact that those plates were far more than a warm-up set, she had lifted it more than a dozen times already and her pace was actually increasing. Five more times she pumped the weight, slamming it up so quickly that he could hear it bang against the top stops each time. After the last rep, she seemed to almost throw herself backward to splay over the cushion as if the set had been extremely exhausting or extremely satisfying.
He thought about letting her know he was there, but he was still drinking in the sight of her. Liz was the strongest and most beautiful of the cheerleaders. Since they started working out here, she seemed to have even gotten stronger faster than the other girls on the squad. After their rocky start with her captain-to-captain challenge, Josh had really started to like Liz. He had been looking forward to the end of the season since it also meant the end of the coach's no-dating rule, and he knew exactly whom he was going to ask out tonight.
Liz stretched and climbed out of the leg press apparatus. Josh was slightly disappointed that she was wearing baggy gym shorts today instead of the usual tight shorts that showed off her impeccable buns. Without looking over in his direction, she walked over to the lat pulldown. Liz sat on the bench facing away from him, stretched upward to reach the bar, and began to do a set. It occurred to Josh that even though she had visible muscles across her back in all the same places a guy would, of course, on her frame it accentuated her hourglass figure, emphasizing her tight little waist and delightfully flaring hips.
Again, even though she was lifting a significant stack of weights, Josh was impressed by Liz's intensity. She powered the bar down again and again with perfect form and machine-like precision. She clearly refused to slow down as she got tired, and on the last rep, held an isometric contraction for many seconds. Finally, even though every muscle fiber in her back must surely be burning, she didn't drop the weight, but did a ten-second negative rep to complete exhaustion. Liz let her head droop down, clearly spent.
Josh didn't think he'd ever seen anyone work that hard in the gym. Shaking his head in amazement, he called out, "Hey, Liz! It's Josh. Okay if I turn the music down a bit?"
Liz was clearly startled as she turned around, but quickly relaxed and yelled back, "Sure."
"I didn't expect anyone else to be here this morning, with all the partying after the big win," he remarked as he turned down the volume and walked over to her.
"You guys might be done with your season, but our Nationals are less than two months away, so we can't take a break," Liz replied. "So I might have expected my girls here, but I'm surprised to see any of the football team."
"You and your squad were a great inspiration to us this season. We hit the weights hard and it paid off on the field. I was looking forward to starting my off-season workouts right away, since the break from practices will give us more time and energy to lift weights and outmuscle everybody next season."
Liz blushed with the praise, "Why, thanks for saying we were inspiring, especially since we didn't get off to the best start."
As she stood up, Josh looked down. There was a bulge in the front of her gym shorts. He did a double-take. Stunned, he asked, "Are you a GUY?"
Liz wailed in distress and ran to the locker room, covering her face with her hands.
Josh was completely floored and sat down on a bench without thinking, or rather, thinking too much. Whirling through his head were thoughts of disbelief, anger, and resentment. Was he gay for fantasizing about her/him for the past months? He was far too furious to think straight.
"Please don't tell anyone," Liz pleaded with him as she walked back into the weight room.
"I don't think I can do that," Josh retorted. "After all the gender-sensitivity programs on campus, I know we're supposed to be accepting to trans-whatever-the-hell you are, but you made a fool of me on your first day up here! You're probably violating some kind of NCAA rule by competing on the cheer squad as a girl and the University could get in big trouble. Do the other cheerleaders know that when they're naked in the locker room they have a guy watching them? You came off like the sexiest woman on campus and you're just a big liar!"
Liz's downcast face brightened for a moment, "You actually think I'm the sexiest woman on campus?"
Josh became furious, "Don't you try to make fun of me! Now that I know you're a guy, I won't have any trouble punching your pretty-boy face into a pulp!"
Liz tried to calm him down, "It's nothing like that! I'm 100% woman. Look at me."
Josh looked up toward Liz's face, but as his gaze crossed her full, rounded breasts, it just made him more furious to think of how he'd been fooled by a set of spectacular implants.
Liz continued, pleading, "No, not up here. Look down below. See for yourself. Please."