Sam's Forest Exile - Bouldering

Sam clings to the small ridges of the cliff with her burning fingers, her shoulders feeling ready to be wrenched from their sockets as she passes one hand over the other rhythmically. Her heart pounds faster each time she looks down to the lethal drop below her. Bouldering is one of her most intense and risky exercises, particularly considering the high, overhanging rock face she has chosen to be her regular climbing spot.

She could have wrapped something around her fingers to help protect them, but she wouldn't learn to resist the stinging pain as they scraped against the sharp stones. Assuming she needed a brutally heavy rock to stretch her body out and put even more strain on her biceps, shoulders and fingers, she could have tied it to her ankles - but then she wouldn't have had to work her thighs and calves, being forced to squeeze it with such a tight vice-grip her legs and lower abs are tight and aching within minutes. She also trained herself to ignore the feeling of her ankles almost being crushed as they sqeezed so hard to keep the rounded rock in place. Sam also doesn't need to keep her knees up, but she does, through the entire workout to keep her abs under the same permanent, agonizing pressure as the rest of her body. The girl takes no shortcuts regardless of the increased risk. She carries herself along the overhang foot by foot, having to keep up the pace due to her constantly draining grip and energy. The danger, the constant strain... sometimes Sam can barely contain a smirk on the edge of her quivering mouth between gasps for more air.