“On my desk. Buried under a pizza box.” The senior’s face turned serious. “Because the PDF is useless, Marcus. The PDF won’t make you do the 6:00 AM lift after you went 2-for-11 from three the night before. The PDF won’t watch your form when your lower back is screaming. The PDF won’t yell at you to get one more rep when your lungs are fire.”

He never lost to fatigue again. Need me to adjust the tone (more technical, more dramatic, or shorter) or turn this into an actual outline for a PDF guide?

“You’re chasing the wrong thing,” the senior said. “You want the PDF.”

Marcus puked behind the bleachers. Embarrassed, he expected a trainer to hand him a water bottle. Instead, a senior walked over—a quiet forward who never averaged more than 6 points but had started every ACC game for three years.

Marcus Tuttle was a five-star recruit, but his first week at Duke felt like a miscalculation.

The senior laughed. “There is. I’ve seen it. Coach prints a copy for each new recruit. It’s 47 pages. Full of wave loading, periodization tables, and metabolic conditioning circuits named after Coach K’s old Final Four teams.”