Background: Everyone is taking up combat lessons and such, just starting. Construction refers to building their Digiworld Home.
Nicole grinned proudly. Tai knew she had earned the title of Pokémon Master at the age of thirteen for a reason, and she had trained her team well. He knew that if everyone in the group was going to train to become fighters, they would need that experience she had to aid them (in addition to the various teachers they had found). In particular, they needed both physical and mental conditioning to strengthen themselves personally.
This was something that Nicole apparently had excelled in with her team.
And so now, she was officially training the humans.
"All right, that's everyone!" she announced as Mimi made it to the finishing point, gasping. "Everyone rest, get some water, meet back at the field in half an hour!"
They had just finished a run around the grounds, over various terrain and whatnot. Nicole had been pleased to see that everyone was in fairly good shape, and as a result had decided to push them harder.
Some of the less active humans had a little trouble completing it.
Tai was thanking his years of soccer training for giving him such good endurance. And inwardly, he had decided that Nicole had to be an alien or something. But then again, she had started up running towards the beginning of construction, and continued it; she had to be extremely good by this point.
Curious about what else she was planning, he approached her.
"So what else are we doing?" he asked.
She turned to him, grinning. "Stretching, plyos, sprints, core exercises, flexibility work, more running, probably do some suicides, and then we hit the weight room."
He stared at her. "Are you trying to kill us or something?"
She shrugged. "Hey, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. We'll probably be hella' sore and tired tomorrow, which'll be good for mentally pushing ourselves to repeat what we're doing today."
The fact that Nicole was partaking in everything with them just made Tai stare even more.
"You're both a sadist and a masochist, you know that?" he commented.
She glanced back at him. "Alternatively, we could spar all day."
"I like that idea better."