Chapter Forty-Nine: Running Out of Potential?

The sky was still bright.

It's already May and June, and the temperature in Jianping is not low during the day, but it's still a little cool in the morning and evening.

On the playground of Jianping Sports School, at this time, a figure in a vest and shorts was running in a circle as if he had been fished out of water.

When Zheng Wei arrived at the playground, he saw a figure running in circles from a distance, and from the sweat of his soaked clothes, Zheng Wei could probably estimate how much training he had already undergone.

Not to mention these students who are still training in the sports school, it is a graduate like him who has left the sports institute for more than a year, and if he wants to sweat, he must at least have a certain intensity of training to force it.

"Viagra, please come so early." Su Zu gasped for breath and ran in front of Zheng Wei.

Zheng Wei frowned and glanced at Su Zu, and casually threw a bottle of light salt water to him, "You are a little ruthless in your practice, can your body resist it." ”

"It's okay." Su Zu took a few breaths in succession, calmed down his breathing, and drank light salt water in small sips.

"I think you should take it easy, practice so hard, in case you get injured, you will be in trouble."

"It's okay, I can still handle this." Su Zu said nonchalantly.

Zheng Wei shook his head, "You can bear it physically, but you should also pay attention to your cultural achievements, the subject teacher has already said that you are sleeping in class now and don't listen to the class." If you have the opportunity in the future, it is better to sign up for a university, athletes are youthful, and you have to plan for the long term. ”

"Well, thank you viagra, I'll take care of it." Su Zu nodded, after returning from the invitational tournament, he increased the amount of training he had, and the fatigue caused by high-intensity exercise made him basically look the same as those sports school students he had seen before, and he basically slept on the table in three or four classes in the morning.

"By the way, Viagra, when will Coach Zhuang come back?"

"It's probably just a day or two, the coach training meeting organized by the province named him, and Lao Xie also hopes that Coach Zhuang can be promoted to a level, and if he can reach a first-level coach, it will also be conducive to the image of our sports school."

"Speaking of which, Coach Zhuang was able to go to this training, which also has a certain relationship with you, you performed well in the invitational tournament, and I heard that Coach Zhuang was a mentor when he was an athlete, and I would like him to share his experience in training for young athletes."

"Huh?" Su Zu didn't expect this, "What does this have to do with me?" ”

Zheng Wei nodded and said: "Think about how long you have been in the sports school, you came in December last year, and you will participate in the competition in April this year, and there is the Spring Festival in the middle, in fact, it will only take 4 months." How much has your 100-meter performance improved in the past 4 months, almost 1 second. Although it is mainly due to your personal talent, it does not erase the credit of our coaching staff. Speaking of the back, Zheng Wei couldn't help laughing.

"In fact, the training of young athletes has always been a big topic, taking our sprinting as an example, a teenager with good athletic ability, if there is a good coach to guide the training, half a year and a year, from 14 seconds to 13 seconds, can be improved to less than 12 seconds. But if you want to improve from 12 seconds to 11 seconds, it depends on the talent of the athlete in the short term. ”

"Anyway, it started to get stuck at the beginning of 11 seconds, and Coach Zhuang talked to me that first-class athletes are a watershed."

"Well, you're right. Looking at your state now, we are also worried that your results have grown too fast in the past few months, and we are afraid that your upper limit will come too early, and it will be difficult to move from the first level to the national athlete level. ”

Su Zu knew that what Zheng Wei said was a normal situation, although he understood his situation and there would be no such problem for the time being, but others didn't believe it. At this time, the only thing you can do is to keep improving your grades and speak with facts.

"Come on, Viagra, get ready to go."

Su Zu put aside the light salt water in his hand, and after the rest of the chat just now, his physical strength had recovered a lot, and he was ready to start the next stage of training.

"I owe you so much, early this morning." Zheng Wei shook his head and accompanied Su Zu to the starting line.

"Those who can work harder." Su Zu said with a smile, after coming back from this invitational tournament, he stubbornly pulled Zheng Wei to accompany him to practice and start. In fact, the two of them had practiced this before after training in Suzu, but when they took it, it was mainly in the starting action and power points. But this invitational tournament made Su Zu realize the gap between him and the really good sprinters in terms of starting reactions.

His relative advantage now is his fast cadence and his ability to accelerate faster, but this advantage can easily be offset if he lags behind in reaction time at the start.

Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the reaction time of the start, the reaction time of the top starters is less than 0.2 seconds, and the reaction time of 0.5 seconds or even 1 second is not uncommon for ordinary people without professional training.

After the last invitational race, Su Zu also asked coach Zhuang Tao to check his starting reaction time, after all, the invitational race has a full set of electronic test timing equipment. It turned out that his starting reaction time was between 0.3-0.4, which is not worse than ordinary people, but as a professional 100-meter sprinter, this is simply intolerable.

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"I disagree!"

A categorical voice sounded in the track and field training ground within the Ronghai Provincial Sports Brigade.

Zhuang Tao looked at the thin middle-aged man in front of him with a pair of black-rimmed glasses with an angry face, and he didn't care about the fact that Teacher Zeng was old and standing beside him, so he would have gone up and slapped him hard.

"Coach Zeng, you are a senior, and I respect you. But what do you think of the provincial sports team, and you casually say that you want to add people in, how can I still work. You know, my training plan is arranged, and I can't come here if anyone wants to. I would like to ask, are you doing this in accordance with the regulations? I can't agree with you to let this runner of yours join our sprint team. The middle-aged man with glasses looked thin, but his voice was loud and imposing.

"The surname is Shen, who do you say does not meet the regulations. The Ronghai Provincial Sports Work Brigade has the responsibility and obligation to train and deliver high-level sports talents for the country, which is hung on the banner at the gate. Why does our referral not comply with the prescribed policy, you can make it clear. Zhuang Taoyuan stared at the head coach of the provincial team's sprint event condescendingly, and asked sharply.

"Xiaozhuang!" Zeng Huizhen, who was standing on the side, frowned, and reached out to pull the former disciple.

She has worked in the provincial sports team for many years and knows much more about the inside story than others. Although Shen Guoying, the head coach of the provincial sprint team, has not been in office for a long time, he was invited back from abroad by the leaders of the provincial sports bureau to coach at a great cost. He graduated from Springfield College, a well-known sports university in the United States, and has taught at universities in Arizona, Washington, D.C., and Minnesota, and has rich overseas coaching experience.

It can be said that even the coaches of the national character are not necessarily better than this Shen Guoying coach in terms of coaching experience and cultivating talents. If it is not necessary, Zeng Huizhen, an old man who has worked in the sports system for half his life, does not want to conflict with each other.

Zhuang Tao was pulled by Zeng Huizhen, snorted coldly, turned his head and stepped aside.

Although he was choked by Coach Shen, who came back from drinking foreign ink, who opened a training plan and closed his mouth for non-compliance, he was finally past the age when he could do it under impulse.

And will be angry with this Coach Shen like this, and things have to start from yesterday.

This time, the Provincial Track and Field Association organized a summary meeting of the work of high-level track and field coaches in Ronghai Province after the cross-strait and three-place invitational competition, and he was invited to attend and speak a number of opinions on the training of young athletes, but he was criticized on the spot by Coach Shen, who returned from studying abroad.

The two almost quarreled on the spot, but fortunately, the leaders of the Athletics Association who attended the meeting at that time were there, and Zhuang Tao also knew that he was not at the same level as the other party in terms of professionalism, so he could only sit down stupidly and listen to the other party's discussion of various "advanced experiences" abroad.

If this is just the case, Zhuang Tao thinks that although he is not angry, he is not a narrow-minded person. The thing is that today, his mentor, after reading the personal information of Su Zu he submitted, feels that he has great potential and is worthy of going to the provincial team to further cultivate and develop.

As a result, now, he and Zeng Huizhen came to the provincial first team and proposed to give Su Zu a trial invitation, but Shen Guoying, the head coach of the track and field team, did not agree no matter what. Open your mouth and close your mouth, either the training plan is full, or the personnel are overloaded and do not accept newcomers.

He Zhuang Tao selfishly hopes that the players he has cultivated can achieve something, and he follows the light to make a name for himself, but which coach is not this one, he is also dedicated to cultivating and delivering outstanding talents to the province and the country.

"Coach Shen, I have no doubt that you are an excellent coach." Zeng Huizhen's tone was calm, without the slightest aggressiveness, "I recommend this athlete to you not because of my personal likes and dislikes, nor because this Coach Zhuang used to be a member of the team I led, but because I watched the other party's performance in the detailed information and the youth track and field invitational tournament in the province a few days ago, with my more than 30 years of experience in sports training, this is a very potential player, worthy of us to enter our provincial team for further training." ”

Zeng Huizhen's words are reasonable, a sports person who has contributed to sports for most of his life, when talking about this aspect of the problem, he naturally has a strong self-confidence and bearing.

"That's right, that's right." Zhuang Tao said angrily, "Coach Shen, if you say that the two of us had a verbal dispute in the last meeting, I can apologize to you, but you can't delay the future of an excellent athlete because of personal factors." ”

"Coach Zeng, I've already read the profile you provided." Shen Guoying pushed the eyes on the bridge of his nose and hesitated slightly, "My personal opinion is still not suitable, I have seen such players before, but in the end, the achievements are limited." ”

Shen Guoying said and nodded at Zhuang Tao, "I personally have differences in Coach Zhuang's training philosophy, but I also admire the various exploration work you have done for sports training, I don't agree with him to enter the provincial team, it is not our personal emotional factors, but from a practical point of view." ”

"Coach Shen, I would like to ask, from what angles do you think this player is not suitable? You haven't even met anyone, so why don't you offer a tryout? Zhuang Tao understands that the other party's way of working is the same thing, but it doesn't mean that he really agrees.

"Big Data Analytics." Shen Guoying said slowly, "I did a data survey at Spring Academy, which counted the results of more than 10,000 track and field athletes in the United States in their elementary school, middle school and adulthood, and one of the important data shows that the most outstanding part of these athletes' athletic ability before the age of 15 is far from the height that people expect in their respective fields after adulthood. ”

"I believe the two of you actually know a little bit about exercise physiology, and doing high-intensity training too early can get some athletes into a state and surpass their peers. But once they enter adulthood, their grades do not improve significantly due to the premature maturity of their bodies. Again, many of these are black and white players who are very athletically gifted and generally grow and develop much earlier than the yellow race. ”

"The player you two have offered has started his professional training at the age of 15, and there is no such problem, but his performance in recent months has been so abnormal that he is well above average. This is not a good sign. According to the data, before entering the sports school in 2001, the player's score was 11.8 seconds, and in the last invitational competition, his sprinting performance reached the level of 10.95 seconds on the electric meter, which is almost a second. It's not hard to increase your sprint speed by 1 second in four months, but if a yellow person wants to go from 12 seconds to 11 seconds, and it's still at the age of 15, it's not a good thing. This means that the player is entering a stage of rapid physical development, and this stage should not be high-intensity training. Shen Guoying recounted his theory at length, paused and continued.

"According to my estimates, his growth level, I estimate that he can run at most 10.6 seconds, 10.7 seconds, and it is difficult to get to the athlete level, and then there is no potential to be tapped. I want players who have the potential to grow, not those who are running out, and I don't know if you two can understand that. ”

Hearing this, Zhuang Tao and Zeng Huizhen both understood that this Coach Shen may have been abroad for a long time, whether it is the training of athletes or the selection of materials, he has his own set of concepts, although both of them think that his statement is too far-fetched, of course, good sports seedlings are cultivated from an early age, and if you want to talk about black and white athletes, they don't also start receiving training from a young age, but they can't say that the other party is wrong.

The big basketball player who participated in this year's NBA draft had also heard that at the beginning of his training phase, the coach had not allowed him to do high-intensity training, and one of the important factors was that it could not affect his growth in height.

The upper limit of athletes' talent has always existed, and many players who were trained in the early stage were able to reach the level of second- and first-class athletes in primary school, but basically that's it, entering the precocious stage of the body too early, resulting in no more potential to tap in the future.

"However, since the two of you have recommended it, I would like to meet this player and test it out for myself, but I can't guarantee that I will be able to keep him for a trial."