I Won't Go Bald, Will I?

A twenty-kilometer weighted run, with five kilograms strapped to each of Bai Ge's legs for a total of ten kilograms, left him feeling strained after only ten minutes.

"Boss, according to my estimate, this is enough. You can take a break and switch to another exercise," the trainer said.

Bai Ge shook his head, glanced at the distance on the treadmill, and continued jogging.

In fact, he wasn't tired, because his stamina was inexhaustible.

Everyone needed to eat to obtain calories, but that method was clearly too slow.

Bai Ge had one additional source of stamina compared to all other humans: electrical energy.

The appendix in the magma pool alone was enough to replenish the stamina he consumed in an hour.

In theory, as long as he replenished enough water, salt, sugar, protein, and vitamins, the energy in his body would be sufficient to keep him exercising indefinitely.

There was no human on Earth with greater stamina than him. After all, charging was enough for him.

The trainer predicted several times that Bai Ge was about to run out of stamina, but Bai Ge completed the required workload every time.

Over the course of the morning, Bai Ge rested only once. He did so to replenish the salt he had lost through heavy sweating, drinking half a bucket of the sports drink the trainer had prepared.

"Ninety-seven, ninety-eight, ninety-nine, one hundred... That's enough. Take a break." The trainer watched Bai Ge finish ten times the planned amount of training, never imagining that Bai Ge could keep going.

Having enough stamina didn't mean one could persist forever. Even if one's stamina remained full, fatigue still existed.

Bai Ge had gritted his teeth and persisted. He hadn't even used Calm Command. This kind of exhaustion was nothing compared to enduring the intense pressure and suffocation of the mantle for a long time; it was far easier to tolerate.

"Prepare another serving of food for me... No, make it three servings. I feel like I need to eat every two hours." Bai Ge continued his arm-strength training.

His clothes were completely soaked with sweat. White salt could even be seen clinging to them.

The trainer had given up trying to persuade Bai Ge. He had realized that Bai Ge's stamina was astonishing.

Even he himself would have collapsed from exhaustion after doing this much training, yet Bai Ge could still maintain his pace.

The training continued until nightfall, when Bai Ge finally completed ten times the planned amount.

His entire body was drenched in sweat. His clothes could have been wrung out to produce a stream of "water," while the salt on his skin looked like white sand.

Bai Ge didn't collapse immediately. Instead, he went and took a shower. When he came out, he was still full of energy.

He hadn't actually expended any stamina; his muscles were merely sore and swollen.

"I've always been curious. Do you even wear your bow tie in the shower?" the trainer asked.

Bai Ge smiled. "Yes. It's very important to me. You understand."

The trainer nodded, convinced that he understood.

He then silently cleared away the tableware and no longer questioned Bai Ge's training volume in the slightest.

Over the course of one day, Bai Ge drank four buckets of specially prepared sports drinks, ate six servings of nutritional meals, and consumed a full two cans of protein powder.

He rested for a few minutes after each exercise. Other than that, he trained continuously.

The trainer could tell that Bai Ge was completing the exercises with great difficulty. For example, during bent-over rows, Bai Ge's muscle mass simply couldn't support him in completing the exercise with perfect form, so he moved very slowly and never went through the motions carelessly.

He didn't seek speed, only effectiveness.

If the trainer had done Bai Ge's amount of training, he would have collapsed from exhaustion by now.

What the trainer didn't know was that after returning home every day, Bai Ge would continue training at the hotel late into the night.

In secret, Bai Ge had no need to hide his superhuman stamina. He repeatedly performed simple exercises such as shoulder presses and squats. Often, over the course of one night, he would do an additional thousand shoulder presses or squats.

That wasn't all. Next came impact-resistance training, in which he constantly allowed his muscles and bones to adapt to blunt force of varying intensities.

He didn't seek a significant effect in one session. Even the slightest effect was enough. Under his persistent training in the future, that tiny effect would continue to accumulate, eventually reaching a terrifying level without any upper limit.

Basically, Bai Ge trained late into the night every day before going to sleep.

Moreover, he didn't remain idle even while sleeping. Instead, he entered his mental space and submerged his entire body in the magma pool.

He slept until the next morning, when the bell woke him.

The first thing Bai Ge did after getting out of bed was put on his weights.

Other than when he entered the magma pool, he never removed the weights at any time of the day. He even walked to and from the hotel instead of taking a vehicle.

During the day, he performed comprehensive training at the fitness center, tempering every muscle in his body. After returning to the hotel, he practiced impact resistance again.

After repeating this for five days, Bai Ge's body was no longer as frail as it had been at the beginning.

The large amount of exercise and protein intake allowed him to recover a portion of his muscle mass in a short time.

With such a massive amount of exercise, none of the weight he gained would be fat.

He tested his punching power every day. On the first day, it was only ninety kilograms.

Now, on the fifth day, his punching power had reached 114 kilograms.

"Twenty-four kilograms in five days. With this amount of training, that's just shy of five kilograms of punching power gained per day on average. At that rate, if I work a little harder, wouldn't I be able to gain 150 kilograms of punching power in a month?" Bai Ge muttered.

The trainer laughed loudly when he heard this. "What are you thinking, Boss? I have to admit that you're incredibly hardworking—one might even say reckless—but I have to tell you that strength training isn't something where effort alone is enough."

Bai Ge smiled. "Oh?"

Perhaps Bai Ge's stamina had dealt such a blow to the trainer over the past few days that he immediately seized the opportunity to explain. "The reason you've improved so dramatically is that you were too frail when you first arrived. Your muscles had even partially atrophied."

"After these days of high-intensity training and massive protein intake, your muscle mass has reached an ordinary person's level. Your punching power has increased so dramatically because your muscle mass grew so quickly. This only happens at the beginning. Once your muscles take shape, increasing your punching power by one kilogram will require far more exercise than this. How could progress remain constant?"

Bai Ge nodded in agreement. Under normal circumstances, the trainer was right.

He had simply replenished his muscle mass all at once, which was why his strength had increased so quickly.

Human muscles would eventually settle into their final form. Once that happened, increasing one's strength would become very difficult.

But Bai Ge knew that he wasn't normal.

He would continue making progress in strength. With this amount of training, he could gain five kilograms of punching power in a day.

In fact, it was more than that, because Bai Ge was engaging in comprehensive training. His exercises included muscle strength, jumping ability, reaction speed, and impact resistance.

Basically, aside from cellular activity, every aspect of his physical attributes was improving.

In a month, his punching power would reach more than 260 kilograms—a devastating punch only the world's top boxers possessed.

Bai Ge currently weighed only sixty kilograms. Compared to his height of 1.8 meters, he could be called skinny.

Yet if he continued training like this, he would be able to strike with four times his body weight in a month.

That efficiency would be enough to scare boxing champions to death. In two months, he could break every human record related to strength.

And this was despite the fact that Bai Ge could only perform this much exercise during the early stages.

This was precisely the characteristic of having "low progress at the beginning."

Later, as his strength grew, the same training he had done today would become increasingly easy, and his speed would continue to increase.

He could only complete this much training today, but what about in the future? Perhaps twice this amount.

Once he became stronger, he might be able to complete five or even ten times this amount of training in a day.

Completing ten times today's training would let him gain 1,500 kilograms of punching power in a month.

Completing a hundred times today's training would let him gain 15,000 kilograms of punching power in a month!

Increasing the training volume didn't necessarily mean increasing the number of repetitions. It could also mean increasing the quality—for example, by adding weight.

A thousandfold increase in weight was practically equivalent to multiplying the training volume by a thousand, directly resulting in 150,000 kilograms of punching power.

The stronger Bai Ge became, the greater the efficiency of his improvement.

Bai Ge had no so-called human limit. In addition, he hadn't altered his muscles' upper limit, so his muscle mass would gradually cease to be linked to his strength.

Once he felt that his muscle mass was sufficient and that continuing to grow would make him bulky, Bai Ge would stop consuming protein.

Later, his weight would stop increasing, but his strength would continue to soar.

At that point, he would have truly entered the realm of the "abnormal."

"Unlocking the limiter is like a wild horse breaking free..."

"Perhaps I only need to train for three years before I become so strong that even I can't understand myself..."

"Hmm... I won't go bald, will I?"