my journey to becoming a real life superhero

my first thoughts

I was just sat there in my room, i have always been obsessed and even gotten depressed because super powers aren't real (is that weird?). i have a huge comic collection, my favourite hero is spiderman. i Love the idea of people doing that. I've had thoughts about why there aren't real hero's for my whole life, but it was different this time, like i actually was ready to begin my journey. It was pretty late so i couldn't do anything straight away, so i decided to watch a film. I watched Kick-Ass, this was an old favourite of mine and i love the comics. It just inspired me more and more, it may just be a film, but it can happen.

i did research the next day and discovered real hero's, my favourite being 'Phoenix Jones'. They all mainly have military training etc, or just A LOt of training. So i decided, i would start there, i would carry on my old mixed martial arts, but at home so no one suspects a 16 year old going to a mixed martial arts class with 30 year olds. oh yeah, i'm 16. i am extremely in flexible so i need to sort that, i want to be able to have the ability to do things like flips and handstands etc as that will make me stronger and build my upper body strength.

So, i got myself a personal trainer. Well... kinda. Again, i didn't want people thinking i'm weird (a 16 year old female asking her parents for a personal trainer). i used an anonymous app and asked for a hand from someone who does it as a profession of trains themselves. I got more candidates then expected, receiving many messages. One guy stood out, he wasn't weird to me as there are a lot of 'gross' people on this app as soon as they find out i'm 16 and a girl. This one guy didn't care, and he kept messaging me and really knew what he was doing. it came to the point of me adding him on snapchat. he gave me stretches to improve my flexibility (as well as me following things online) and no i didn't tell him about my superhero dream.

He helped me a lot, and told me a lot. this was all the information i needed, and i got it in one day. We begin the next day.