Sincerest thanks in particular to BruceWo (and other anonymous commenters) for persistent encouragement to write this chapter. I felt I had wrapped up this story line with chapter 4, so it was hard to figure out how to start and even harder to figure out a conclusion, but now I'm happy with the way it turned out.
Thanks to ThisNameIsntTakenYet for his Volunteer Editing and to KatieTay and Jade for inspiring me to dream up new partner workouts.
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Josh's phone buzzed in his pocket during the morning client feedback meeting. Since the agenda was just the usual litany of complaints and hand-wringing, he slipped his phone out of his pocket and glanced at the screen under the table. The text was from Liz and the first words were displayed: "Since today is the first day of the rest of your new, super-intensive training regimen..." He clicked it and had to immediately shield the screen from his co-workers on either side. "... I want to keep your testosterone high all day. I found a T-shirt in the color of my old cheerleader uniform." The photo from shoulders to waist showed a bright red T-shirt that was clearly a thin material and two sizes too small, since it was skin-tight across Liz's midsection and then curved dangerously outward over her full and bra-less breasts.
Josh clicked back to the home screen, but thought of nothing else during the rest of the meeting and finished ogling it in full detail as soon as he returned to his desk.
During the mid-afternoon slump another text arrived from Liz. It showed a side view of the same shirt that was as spectacular as the first. Tight around her slim midsection, dipping downward with the weight of those delicious natural breasts, stretched to the breaking point across the nipples, then up to the shoulders.
Thanks to his desk, no one was able to see Josh adjust his pants. He spent the next hour working furiously so he could leave as soon as possible.
When Josh arrived home, Liz was wearing that spectacular T-shirt and her workout shorts. She grabbed him in a bear hug, crushing her breasts against his chest. After a long kiss, she asked, "So, did my pictures keep you horny all day?"
"Absolutely," he replied with a smile. "I almost got caught a few times."
"Perfect! Testosterone ahoy! So, kitchen for veggies and your pre-workout shake, then gym shorts, and meet me downstairs."
When Josh arrived in their gym, Liz was sitting on a bench that had been moved in front of the squat rack. "If today is leg day, what's with the bench?" he asked.
"For now, just for me to sit and admire while you lift."
Josh did three warmup sets, adding plates after each, then set up the weight for his usual five-rep working sets.
"There's one change to your workout tonight. You've been dreaming about these all day," she said with a smile. She pulled the shirt over her head and Josh's eyes were riveted to the delightful display as her breasts settled sexily back into position. "I'm going to stand on the bench in front of you. You're going to squat four regular reps, and then on each rep starting at number five, each time you stand up, you get to nibble my nipple."
"Only starting at the fifth rep? That's torture!"
"That's the idea, big boy. Time's a'wastin'!"
Liz turned from side to side so Josh could kiss, suck, or nibble left and right alternately. With that incentive, he was amazed that he hit nine reps. He pounded through his other exercises of deadlifts, leg extensions, leg curls, and calf raises so he could get back to squats and managed eight. As the night went on, he even went through the cycle an extra time to get a brutal sixth set of squats.
Josh's legs felt like jelly as he groaned his way up the stairs to their apartment. A lean protein dinner and a triumphant cowgirl ride from Liz led to a deep night's sleep.
The next morning, he took an extra few minutes in the shower to ease the delayed-onset muscle soreness. The fact that it had been so long since he felt that meant that he hadn't really been training hard enough, and that Liz has pushed him just right.
When Josh sat down to his breakfast plate of eggs and whole-grain toast, Liz saw him look curiously at the extra pill there. "Zinc," she explained. "You're going to need it for the amount of sex we're going to have."
During a required training session on a purchasing system he was never going to use, his phone buzzed again with the message, "Core and cardio tonight." This morning's picture was from the same viewpoint as yesterday, but Liz had apparently gotten out her scissors and cropped off the bottom half of the T-shirt so now the material ended just below her breasts. Liz's deeply sculpted abs were as sexy as hell, but even sexier was the shadow cast by the T-shirt. The poor material was stretched tight across her breasts and held a good three inches away from her chest. His cock started swelling at the thought of having a view up that gap.
The afternoon's picture was from the side, displaying stunning definition in Liz's obliques and the doubling in width of the image between her tightly-muscled midsection and the overhang of her T-shirt.
Josh had hoped to see Liz in that delightful cropped top, but when he arrived home, she was wearing some baggy old blouse. He worked through sets of planks, crunches, and Roman Chair leg raises while Liz made him use an additional ten-pound plate for each. The protests from his muscles let him know that he clearly hadn't been working out hard enough before, but this was no fun at all.
When they got to sit-ups, however, Liz finally gave him a wink and knelt down to hold his feet. Each time he got to the top of the motion, he had a delicious view of her perfect breasts hanging like delicious fruit.
After four rounds through the abs exercises, Liz led the way over to the treadmill. Josh noticed that the stepper machine was moved from its usual place next to the treadmill to in front of it, and asked, "What's up with that?"
"I've got the treadmill data linked to my phone. As soon as your heart rate gets over 140, I strip and start stepping, and I'll keep it up as long as you do."
A few minutes later, Liz took off everything except socks and sneakers. Josh nearly tripped on the treadmill as she climbed onto the stepper. He chased after the perfect glutes pumping ahead of him until he couldn't run one more step.