Chapter 204: Physical Fitness
On June 14, 2018, at 6 p.m. Moscow time and 11 p.m. Beijing time, the opening match of the XXXI World Cup will start on time at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.
At six o'clock in the morning of the 14th, I had adapted to the change in jet lag, woke up from my sleep on time, got up and washed up, and walked to the hotel restaurant while moving my body.
In the early morning of June in Moscow, the temperature is somewhat low compared to the Dragon Kingdom, which is related to the dimension in which Moscow is located.
In order to ensure the health of each player, the health nurse of the Dragon Country team requires each player to add a coat over his clothes to keep warm when he gets up in the morning for breakfast.
Everyone doesn't dare to slack off on this request, they have come to this point, and no one wants to have some physical conditions due to some small negligence, resulting in not being able to play.
Shen Feng is no exception, although he is young and strong, as the core of the team, he must play an exemplary role for others.
However, Shen Feng didn't honestly put his coat on his body, but just draped it over his shoulders and walked into the restaurant while twisting his neck.
Although it was only six o'clock in the morning, a hearty breakfast had been prepared in the restaurant, which was prepared by the Dragon Country Football Association for the players of the Dragon Country team, and the top chefs invited from China to cook it by themselves, which was both nutritious and delicious.
This chef group has been stationed since the beginning of this training camp, and now it has been with the players of the Dragon Country team for more than 20 days, and they are already familiar with each other.
Seeing that Shen Feng was still the first to come to the restaurant as usual, they greeted him one after another, and Shen Feng also responded with a smile.
The breakfast of the Dragon Country team adopts a buffet mode, and after the meal is prepared, it is placed in an insulated lunch box for the players and staff to take it at any time, so as to ensure that everyone can eat a hot meal when they come.
Shen Feng picked up the dinner plate, picked out a few of his favorite dishes, brought them to the table and sat down, and feasted.
While Shen Feng was eating, other players came over from the restaurant one after another, including Zheng Zhi, Feng Xiaoting and others, who usually don't get up so early, all of them got up early today, obviously because the opening game was coming soon, and they were a little nervous, excited, and couldn't sleep well.
However, judging from everyone's faces, no one showed a sense of exhaustion, and it was obvious that they all had their own ways of resting well.
After breakfast, everyone sat and chatted in the leisure area of the hotel, and then walked to the gym.
In order to allow the players to have more physical strength to cope with the afternoon game, the Dragon Country team did not arrange training tasks today, but during this time, everyone has developed the habit of training every day, and if they don't move their bodies in the morning, their hearts and bodies will be a little itchy.
However, everyone did not put on a large weight in the gym, but mainly focused on endurance training with small weights and many times, mainly to move the body.
The "Shenfeng" system also seems to have an understanding of the situation Shen Feng is facing, and the training items in the daily training tasks issued today are also mainly based on warm-up and recovery.
In the morning, everyone soaked in the gym, and even after training, they stayed here and chatted with everyone.
In the middle, someone went to the restaurant one after another to add a meal - during the entire training period, the Dragon Country team adopted the principle of eating less and eating more often, and everyone ate five to six meals a day - one meal in the morning, one meal at ninety o'clock in the morning, one meal at noon, another meal at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, dinner at six or seven o'clock in the evening, some have good metabolism and large consumption, and at ninety o'clock in the evening, there will be another supper.
However, there will not be a lot of food to eat every time, although there are a lot of high-calorie meal intake, but everyone has enough training every day, and they will not accumulate excess calories in the body.
Eating small and frequent meals can ensure that everyone has sufficient physical fitness to cope with the huge consumption of two or even three exercises a day.
This dietary principle is not only implemented by the Dragon National Team, but also in various clubs in the Dragon Super League, during training.
After Shen Feng came from the "Shenfeng" system, he insisted on training every day while maintaining such a regular diet, which was an important reason why his physical posture was still strengthened while maintaining such a huge training consumption.
Football is a competitive sport, and having a good body is the foundation of dominance on the pitch.
Especially on the stage of the World Cup at a higher level, every participating team comes here to pursue victory, and no one will be polite to their opponents in the World Cup competition.
As a team from Asia, the Dragon Country team is weaker than the teams in Europe, Africa and the Americas in terms of physical conditions, and if they don't work hard to make up for and narrow the gap in this regard, the gap between them and the teams in these regions will only be greater!
Asia has always been regarded as the "desert" zone of international football, and Asian teams in the World Cup, qualifying for the group stage and advancing to the round of 16 are already unattainable goals, and the quarterfinals, semi-finals, and even the final championship have little to do with Asian teams.
The best result of an Asian team in the history of the World Cup is the semi-finals created by the South Korean team in the 2002 World Cup, but how the semi-finals were obtained, fans all over the world know that they are not representative at all, and they can even be called the shame of Asian football!
Only South Korean fans, who sit back and watch the sky, have self-esteem and arrogance, can ignore the dirty and nasty methods used by the South Korean team in the process of reaching the semi-finals in the World Cup at their doorstep.
Asian teams, including West Asian teams with better physical fitness, have never been known for their physical confrontation in the World Cup, and the same is true for the Dragons.
The current Dragon Country players, with the scientific and rational training, the gap between the technical and tactical level and some teams in Europe that are also not good at technology is not very obvious, but in terms of physical fitness, due to the innate factors of the race, it is not that they can catch up, it takes a long and imperceptible process.
After more than a year, under the constraints of the strict training system of the "Shenfeng" system, Shen Feng has completed systematic training, and his physical fitness has improved significantly, and his weight, strength, and confrontation ability have all improved significantly compared with a year ago.
Although there is still a lot of room for improvement, at least in the next matches, when it comes to physical contact with opponents, there will not be too much loss.
This is a very critical issue for the Dragons.
In the current tactical system of the Dragon Country team, the single striker who is required to be at the forefront must have a strong ability to hold the ball, control the ball, and protect the ball, and be able to control the ball under the bag of many players of the opponent, so as to gain time and win opportunities for the Dragon Country team to switch from defense to offense.