"Ye Qin, you just ran too fast in the first half of the race, and you have no rhythm at all, and you will be bored at 300 meters."

On June 8, in Icahn Stadium, New York, USA, Randy Hunter frowned, looked at Ye Qin, who had just finished a set of 400 meters, and said with a solemn expression.

"Whew...... ...... puffed" Ye Qin stood on the runway with his hands on his waist, gasping for breath, and seemed to be breathing a little easier for a while before he replied, "Coach, I want to try it, I try to be as fast as possible in the first half of the race, and at what stage will there be a significant decline in speed." ”

"I know you're trying to let go of the rhythm you're used to in the first half of the race, but Ye Qin, it's not like you're completely out of rhythm, it's not okay." Randy Hunter seemed to frown slightly, after the race in Eugene a few days ago, the master and apprentice had already communicated in this regard, and they were both making adjustments to the Yechin 400m event.

After a slight pause, he continued: "Not to mention 400 meters, it is 100 meters, you yourself know that in addition to starting and accelerating, the run to maintain the maximum speed is only a short one or twenty meters." What you need is to reasonably distribute your speed, Ye Qin, your speed ability is not weak, but your physical fitness is not enough to support it, you still have to distribute the physical strength and speed in the first half of the race more reasonably, so as to ensure that you are more impactful when sprinting. ”

"It's still hard to get this point right."

Ye Qin nodded, thinking back to the 400 meters he had just run, it felt that it was not so simple, and he still encountered great difficulties.

Unlike the 1,200-meter sprint, the 400-meter event cannot be run at top speed after the gunshots are fired. One or two hundred meters, you can only add up your speed and then rush to the finish line.

And in the 400-meter project, there are many things to consider.

The distribution of energy and speed is a crucial link.

Even the best players need to control their pace in the first half of the race in order to maintain their fitness and speed in the second half of the race.

Of course, it doesn't mean that you can't let go and rush to run, but this kind of running method is to pass 200 meters, basically the body has excessive lactic acid accumulation, and the physical energy consumption is too large, and almost the back may not be able to run at all.

Ordinary people are like this, and the top 400m athletes in the profession still can't escape this rule.

It's just that compared with the average person, professional 400m athletes have better physical fitness, abundant physical fitness, and strong muscle tolerance.

But when all the runners are on the same level and there is not that much difference in power between them, it is very important for the athletes to have a reasonable running technique.

After testing the 400m at Baylor University, Michael Johnson suggested to Yechin that he could try to run at some of the pace in front of him, and Yechin did so in Eugene, and the results were significant.

But the run was also very difficult, and the last 50 meters of the sprint almost exhausted all his strength, and he collapsed after the run, and he could barely stand on his feet for a period of time after crossing the finish line.

"It's going to take time, we can't rush it, you're a professional athlete and any bit of technical adjustment now will make the difference between success and failure in your entire career."

Randy Hunter's face was grim, and he was also thinking about what Ye Qin said.

Arriving early at Baylor University in the United States, Randy Hunter was just trying to have some communication with Clyde Hart, and it turned out that a change of pace was the best way to go.

Randy Hunter has no shortage of basic ability training and special ability training, he just hasn't really coached the men's 400m event, and he still needs to be able to find someone to give him some advice.

Ye Qin's previous running style is no longer able to support his gradual improvement level, if he runs like before, Ye Qin has a clear advantage in the middle and second half, and it will not even be too hard after running, but obviously, there is still a large part of the potential that has not been fully tapped.

But changing the pace doesn't happen overnight.

Ye Qin controlled the rhythm in the first half of the race, began to accelerate at 250 meters, and then sprinted to the last 50 meters or so, this series of running methods is from the beginning of the 400 meters, two or three years have been constantly training, constantly strengthening, and slowly formed a style.

In the past few years, Ye Qin himself can't remember how many 400 meters he has run, and at the beginning, when his starting acceleration and speed ability were not fully developed, this running style allowed him to go all the way in the 400-meter race.

Now it suddenly needs to be broken, and the most important problem to face is actually habit.

This kind of one or two trips, it is very easy to run a little faster in front of one or two hundred meters, the key is precision, how to most accurately distribute the speed and physical fitness in the first half of the race, and then when he maintains the middle and second half, he still has enough physical energy to sprint.

Like the one in Eugene, Ye Qin could feel that it was his extraordinary performance, not the extraordinary performance of the overall performance of the whole course, but the extraordinary performance in the last 50 meters.

The last 50 meters were so difficult that he could barely run, which was a situation he would only encounter when he first started running 400 meters, if it wasn't for the perennial super-distance speed training, if it wasn't for the perennial super-distance speed training, if you changed someone, even if you wanted to rush no matter how strong your willpower was, you wouldn't be able to rush.

"Coach, don't you really run 400 meters in the New York race?"

The original plan was for Ye Qin to compete in the men's 200m and men's 400m races in New York, but after the results of Eugene came out, Randy Hunter gave up the 400m race in New York.

To be honest, Ye Qin felt a little pity in his heart.

He actually had a very strange feeling in his heart, he was trained under Randy Hunter, I don't know if it was because of the other party's coaching style, or because he was getting older, and many of the things he had learned had precipitated to a certain period of time, and he already had some ideas of his own.

Especially this 400-meter adjustment, he feels that he should run more 400-meter races at this time and adjust his rhythm through the competition, after all, in China, he can't meet such a high-level opponent, and the opportunity is rare.

Randy Hunter also apparently saw Ye Chin's thoughts, shook his head slightly, and explained, "Your current rhythm is a bit messy, and we need to study it for a while to determine that your speed distribution is more suitable. At this stop in New York, you can participate in the 200 meters. ”

Randy Hunter paused, and then said, "It's also better for your future development, you just won the 400m in Eugene, and if you suddenly run eighth in the second race, it will not be good for you to look at others in the future." And, in the 200 meters, you haven't run it well this year, give it your all, run your own good time in the 200 meters, and you will soon be able to make the American track and field world not to ignore you. ”

As an American, Randy Hunter is still very concerned about what the American athletics community thinks of him taking an Asian athlete to some extent.

Selfishly, he just won a Grand Prix in Eugene, and he even hoped that Ye Qin would stop and leave the United States directly.

In this regard, Randy Hunter is a bit similar to some coaches and athletes in many countries at this time, after a certain game suddenly has a particularly good result, he hurriedly begins to rest and adjust, just because he is afraid that he will run badly in the back, and there is no sensational effect when he runs out of good results in the front.

On the other hand, Ye Qin's 200 meters really need to be run well, there are no 200 meters in Osaka and Eugene in front of him, and the New York station is a good stop.