Chapter 11: Devil Training
After the street game with the Marauders, it's September in the blink of an eye, which means that the annual exciting basketball season is about to begin. The NBA preseason season began in early November, and the NCAA regular season, which is more popular among Americans, begins in late November.
In the time since the start of the NCAA competition, the basketball teams of all NCAA universities are in full swing training, and the University of Michigan Wolverine team is no exception, especially the Wolverine team has introduced a rising star from China this year - Sun Yue, and the team has higher expectations for this year's goals.
Sun Yue, who was established as the core of the team early, not only participated in the team's collective training every day, but the coaching staff also arranged individual training for him.
For Sun Yue, the team's coaching staff specially formulated a separate training plan that best suits his physical fitness, and the team found that Sun Yue's physical fitness is very outstanding in height, arm span, bounce, coordination, etc., and the weaknesses are concentrated in speed, physical fitness, and strength.
Therefore, the coaching staff divided his individual training into two parts according to Sun Yue's situation: explosive training and strength training, and the team's coaching staff considered Sun Yue's physical condition and did not arrange separate physical training for him, but let him participate in the team's physical training.
Sun Yue's individual training sessions are performed four times a week, and each training session lasts between 45-60 minutes depending on Sun Yue's physical condition.
The training of explosive power is mainly to touch the chest jump, resistance sprint, and lateral one-foot jump.
Chest Jump: Feet shoulder-width apart. Then add the arms to swing upwards to drive the body to jump upwards. After jumping, the legs and abdomen are tightened, and the repetition exercise can increase the explosive power and waist and abdominal strength.
Resistance Sprint: Wrap the bungee cord around your waist, the team trainer pulls the bungee cord and the player sprints as fast as possible until the bungee cord is straightened, then retreats backwards at a reduced speed. Acceleration, deceleration, and the ability to change direction in the lateral muscles of the legs, agility, are the focus of this training.
Lateral one-legged jump: Place the horn pyramids on both sides, facing forward, in a sideways jump, similar to a skiing position, with only one foot landing between jumps, and start the next jump with the gluteus maximus on the same side. It can increase the ability to change direction and deceleration on the side, and increase the agility of players.
Strength training is mainly composed of three parts: bench presses, balance bell push-ups, and squats with weights on the back of the neck.
Bench press: Hold dumbbells in both hands on a bench, place the dumbbells on your shoulders, palms facing up, push the dumbbells up until your arms are straight, pause for a while, and then slowly reset. This is a movement that focuses on the pectoralis major muscles and arm strength.
Balance bell push-ups: Put your hands on the balance bell, stand up on the ground, back and hips in a straight line, body to the ground, use the pectoralis major muscles and triceps muscles to prop up, and then lift the balance bell with the dorsal sphincter. This movement exercises the pectoralis major, triceps and back sphincter, and core strength and balance are very important on the court, both for physical confrontation and for self-protection.
Weight-bearing squat at the back of the neck: Squat is one of the rigid indicators that reflect the level of physical fitness, focusing on training the quadriceps and gluteal muscles, aiming to improve the ability to extend the knee and hip. For basketball, lower body strength is the root of everything, the foundation of running and jumping.
These trainings are very targeted for Sun Yue now, and Sun Yue, who is accustomed to the kind of sheep herding training in China, is a little difficult, of course, Sun Yue also understands that if he persists, he will see a lot of benefits for his career.
After a full day of training, Sun Yue was tired and lay in the locker room to enjoy the team's masseur's full body massage.
But under the almost mandatory order of Coach Tom to receive a massage, Sun Yue actually found that the muscles he was massaged recovered several times faster than before, no wonder later generations of NBA stars like to massage after the game, Sun Yue is also used to massaging the muscles of the whole body after a day of training to help recovery.
The whole locker room was quiet, the players were tired after a day of training, ......and suddenly the mobile phone rang, and the team's small forward Claude answered the phone excitedly, and the more he spoke, the lower his voice became, and he hung up the phone without saying a few words.
Claude walked over to Sun Yue, who was still massaging, and said with an ugly expression: "skipper, that Christine. Ledlow wanted to ask you to have dinner in the evening, and she asked me for your number, which should call you later. ”
"Kristen. Ledlow, who? Sun Yue asked with a confused expression, he didn't remember the blonde sexy girl for a long time.
Claude walked away without raising his head in frustration, and he didn't bother to answer Sun Yue's question. The goddess of one's heart and mind may be worthless to others, which may be the greatest sorrow of a man except for being green and having a child.
Mark next to him leaned over with a lewd face: "Skipper, it's the beautiful reporter Ledlow in our senior year at the University of Michigan." As he spoke, he gestured in the air with his double **, as if Ledlow was standing in front of him.
Looking at Sun Yue, who was still blinded, Mark couldn't wait to replace Sun Yue to go to the appointment: "It's the blonde beauty Christine who called Uncle Tom when the time came to report that day. Ledlow. ”
"Oh, I know who it is." The unresponsive Sun Yue finally remembered the blonde girl, it was a shame to say, although Sun Yue had a passion with this blonde beauty in his dream, but he didn't have much impression of her in reality.
"Jingle Bell ......"
Within a few minutes, Sun Yue's copycat Blackberry phone rang, and the phone number was an unfamiliar one. Sun Yue drove Mark, who wanted to eavesdrop on the side, away and answered the phone.
"Hello, I'm skipper."
"Hello, the ...... I'm Christine. Ledlow, I want to ask if you have time after training? I'd like to ask you over dinner and interview you by the way. The sweet voice on the other end of the phone directly stated the purpose.
It turned out that it was just an interview with himself, not an imaginary affair, and Sun Yue, who was already thinking about the technical moves at night, was a little disappointed: "Okay, but you may wait a little, I haven't taken a shower just after training, can you see it in an hour." ”
"No problem, I'll wait for you downstairs in your dormitory in an hour."
"Hey, wait, do you know which dormitory I'm in....." Before Sun Yue could finish speaking, the phone was hung up.
"Why are you staring at me like this?" The other members of the Wolverine team who were eavesdropping on the side all stared at Sun Yue with envious and jealous eyes, and Ledlow, a member of the Wolverine team, has always been an unattainable goddess, and Claude is the best example.
Now Sun Yue was actually asked by the goddess in everyone's mind, and she can't play ball, and she can't soak up girls, "Can you really do whatever you want if you play basketball well?" This is the voice of every player in the Wolverine team except Sun Yue.