"Yechin, how did it feel to first meet Michael Johnson? Isn't it exciting? Heck, I forgot to bring my camera, otherwise I should have taken a few group photos. ”

In a two-story dormitory building at Baylor University, Ye Qin was lying on a massage table at this time, and Zhuang Wei stood behind him, his arm constantly kneading Ye Qin's leg muscles.

I just finished the adaptive warm-up training, and then I completed the 200-meter and 400-meter tests in a row, with a gap of just over half an hour, so I dare not say that I am completely 100% performing, but for an athlete, such intensity is not small. It's not about how much you ran overall, it's about the difference between training and testing races.

When training, the focus is on going back and forth, the accumulation of quantity and quality, will not be completely fighting, but will continue to stimulate the body within a certain intensity. After running 200 meters in half an hour of the test, he ran 400 meters, and the load on the muscles and Achilles tendon was not small. In the Olympic 100 meters, in order to maintain the condition of the athletes, they have to wait two hours apart.

"I didn't recognize each other just now." Ye Qin squinted his eyes and let Zhuang Wei massage his muscles, and seemed to be a little tired, "When I used to watch the video and watch the two world records set by Michael Johnson, I always had a feeling of excitement, but today I really saw it in person, but it seems to be quite calm." ”

"Hey, then you kid has a good mentality." Zhuang Wei laughed, "It's worth it for me to come out with you this time, if nothing else, these famous coaches and athletes alone will not work in vain." ”

"Master Zhuang, why have you worked so hard?"

Chen Zhongzhou, who was sitting in front of Ye Qin's massage table, smiled a little helplessly, he took care of many things in the whole team, even if Ye Qin had training and competitions every day, at best, Zhuang Wei would work for two hours a day, giving Ye Qin a muscle physiotherapy and massage.

Zhuang Wei didn't care, and said with a smile, "Coach Chen, look at me now, I'm working hard." ”

There seemed to be a little embarrassment to Chen Zhongzhou in his tone, mainly because of the passport and visa issues he had issued before, Chen Zhongzhou had already explained in advance at that time, and the photo had some personal information, and handed it over to the other party for an official visa. As a result, Zhuang Wei simply forgot that Chen Zhongzhou specially helped him run a few times to get some of the later work, and it can be regarded as a debt of not much or small.

"By the way, Yechin, what did Michael Johnson just tell you?" Chen Zhongzhou saw the lazy appearance of Zhuang Wei's hippie smile, and he didn't bother to say anything, and turned to look at Ye Qin.

He had read Zhuang Wei's information when he was a teenager, and he had good results in the hammer throw discus project at that time, but it was probably because of his temperament, he was always a little bit worse, and he didn't like the coach very much, so he simply retired and started massage therapy instead.

Ye Qin didn't answer immediately, but opened his eyes with a thoughtful look, and said slowly, "He said that I controlled the rhythm and speed too much, and I didn't completely let go and run along my body." ”

"Huh?" Chen Zhongzhou was slightly stunned when he heard this, the 400-meter run is a sprint event characterized by speed and based on speed and endurance, and it is the longest and most difficult event in the sprint run. The key to the success of the 400-meter run lies in how to allocate one's speed and physical strength in the most reasonable and effective way throughout the race.

Ye Qin has actually been thinking about this problem on the way back, he has been thinking about this since he participated in the city's middle school students' sports meeting in his first year of high school, and began to follow Yan Ning to practice sports, which is the main event of 400 meters, at that time, in order to make his second half of the race have the strength to do the final sprint, in the first half of the race will properly control the rhythm and suppression speed.

His speed in the first half of the race has not been fast, including when running 200 meters, in fact, it is not that his absolute speed ability is not good, but a long-term fixed training mode. As long as it is 400 meters, he will think about distributing speed and physical strength in the first 1200 meters, and over time, it will form a habit.

This point, including Nie Fangping, Randy Hunter and others, did not notice that there was anything wrong with this, and the 400 meters should be run like this, and Ye Qin himself did not have too deep a deep experience.

But since this year, he has run 400 meters and has found that occasionally the front and back half of the race will feel a little wrong, as if something is wrong with his rhythm.

"Should I let go a little more?!"

Ye Qin thought silently in his heart, his most important weapon for running 400 meters is the sprint ability in the second half, if the first half is completely let go, then the 80 meters and 50 meters of the last straight will not be able to rush?

Chen Zhongzhou's eyelids were also drooping at this time, as if he was in deep thought.

He has not been in contact with Ye Qin for a long time, and it has been almost half a year since the beginning of winter training, but Ye Qin's training plan for half a year was arranged by him, and he didn't know how much he watched the training games, and he vaguely seemed to feel that the problem that Michael Johnson said was quite reasonable.

When running the indoor 400 meters, Ye Qin's results are close to the results of last year's World Indoor Championships 400 meters champion, although Ye Qin's cornering skills are exquisite, and his adaptability to indoor competitions is higher than other athletes, but whether it is breaking the 400-meter national record in the Zhaoqing National Track and Field Concession Championship, or the 400-meter race at the Osaka Grand Prix, it is actually a little worse than Randy Hunter and Chen Zhongzhou's tone.

"By the way, Brother Chen, you flipped down my bag, the outermost pocket, I met someone in the track and field just now and gave me a business card."

Ye Qin put the question tangled in his mind for a while, and was ready to wait for Randy Hunter to come back and discuss it, and suddenly remembered that he and Yang Yao met Victor Conte and Traver Graham when they were doing acclimatization training on the track and field.

"Who did you meet?" Chen Zhongzhou put away his reverie and got up to rummage through Ye Qin's backpack.

"Ugh!" Ye Qin was just about to answer, when the words came to his mouth, he suddenly couldn't help but hissed lightly.

Behind him, Zhuang Wei was not slow, and grinned, "Ye Qin, your kid is starting to be more able to stand it now!" Let me tell you, the kid has a lot more muscles during this time, 72 kilograms, right? ”

"Not yet, 71 like." Ye Qin first replied to Zhuang Wei, he is now accustomed to massage and physiotherapy, and the muscles of the body can indeed tolerate relatively heavy techniques for the strength of massage.

As he spoke, he looked at Chen Zhongzhou again, "Traver Graham, the coach of last year's Olympic men's 100m champion Jax Thelin, I now know that it turns out that the 200m champion Sean Lauder was also taught by him." ”

"Wow!" Chen Zhongzhou and Zhuang Wei present couldn't help but marvel.

One person can bring out two sprint Olympic champions in one Olympic Games, even if both are on the national team, this head is still a bit staggering.

"That business card was given to me by a white man who was with him, as if he was selling some nutritional products, and that I could come to him if I needed it."

Ye Qin said casually, for the white man, he now felt that the other party's expression was a little strange, but he didn't think about it for a while.

"Nutrition?"

Chen Zhongzhou couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and when he saw the kind of business card in his hand clearly, and saw the words "Balk Company, Victor Conte, Olympic Champion Founder" written on it, he fell into deep thought.

Although Ye Qin has grown up very quickly in the past few years, he is still a teenager after all, and he has not been in contact with many dark sides, and he may have heard of it, but he definitely doesn't know how deep the water is.

But Chen Zhongzhou is different, no matter what, he is also in his thirties, although he doesn't know much about some things in the world, but how to say that he has also been in the sports industry for more than ten years, some bad things in the swimming world in the 90s, the women's middle and long-distance running horses, etc., he has heard of some taboos about changing colors. To a certain extent, they can be classified as "functional nutrients", but whether it is in the Olympics or the IAAF, they are prohibited.

"Ye Chin, I need to teach you a lesson."

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