Morning Practice
A Thursday Prompt story
© 2025 by Walter Reimer

Prompt:  snatch

It was early in the morning, before breakfast, when the xenokeryx and the giraffe went downstairs to the basement of their shared condo near Valencia.  [url=https://www.furaffinity.net/view/38378119/]Xavier had fitted the cellar out as a private gym, and Fadhila had heartily approved.[/url]  The Tanzanian woman loved watching her Spanish boyfriend work out.
The gym was floored in thick mats and held racks of free weights.  Fadhila had been surprised and pleased when she learned that Xavier had also installed mirrors along one wall along with a ballet barre.  The giraffe, a fashion model, used the gym as well to work on her muscle tone, balance and coordination.
Fadhila gathered her robe around herself and sat down on a bench as Xavier, dressed only in a jockstrap, added several more weight discs to the bar on the mat, stopping when the total came up to a hundred and fifty kilos.  The xenokeryx then stepped back and did several exercises and stretches, including deep squats, to limber himself up and smiling when he saw the giraffe smiling appreciatively.
He rubbed his palms together as he approached the weight bar, adjusting his stance before dropping into a deep squat, hooves hip-width apart, knees and head projecting out over the bar and gripping the bar at either end, close to the weight discs.  The xenokeryx closed his eyes, concentrating on his breathing before raising his head and opening his eyes, his gaze focusing on a point in the middle distance.
A pause, as Fadhila saw his muscles ripple and gather under his close-cropped hide.
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc5N_-xdqo]Suddenly those tight-clenched muscles moved[/url], tendons of thighs and calves standing out as the weight bar left the mat.  The force of the snatch made his hooves leave the floor for a fraction of a second, while simultaneously Xavier shifted his grasp on the bar and, as his hooves touched the mat again, his arms and back were at full extension, ramrod straight as he held all 150 kilos over and slightly behind his head.
He held the pose for a long moment before bringing his arms forward and stepping back as he lowered the weights to the floor and looked at Fadhila.
The giraffe grinned and clapped her paws as she said softly, “Magnifico, mi amor.”
Xavier beamed at her as he walked over to her and leaned over (not too far; they were nearly the same height) and they shared a kiss.  “Asante, mpenzi,” he said.  She’d been learning Spanish, so it was only fair that he should learn Swahili.
He stepped back as she stood up and shed her gauzy robe to reveal she was wearing a bra and panties, and while he took weight off the bar to continue his early morning workout Fadhila began doing stretches using the barre.
She looked up to see his reflection in the mirror, and she smiled at the sign of his own appreciation of her figure before concentrating on her workout as he started doing triceps curls.

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