When going to the training ground to prepare for training, Zhou Yi and Mark walked together, he leaned in front of Mark and asked in a low voice, "Mark, have you seen Schneider?"

"No...... yes, I didn't see that. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" was asked by Zhou Yi like this, and Mark remembered that when Götze introduced them to everyone today, there was no Schneider at all. "Isn't he from U19?"

"Hey, hey. Zhou Yi laughed, he could already guess what was going on - Schneider was late for training!

"There's a good show to watch. He said to Mark.

When Zhou Yi and Mark began to finish warming up with their teammates, someone hurried to the training ground.

This person is Schneider, whom he and Mark are both familiar with.

This made Under-19 manager Peter Yebarra very angry.

"Schneider!Why are you late for training!" he yelled at Schneider.

Zhou Yi clasped his hands to his chest and bumped into Mark, with a playful expression on his face.

Seeing that the head coach was angry, Schneider quickly explained in a proper manner: "Uh, sorry, sir. I didn't mean to be late, but on my way to Bracker, I met an old lady with one of her injured dogs asking for help, so I took them to the vet hospital first...... I'm already driving fast, sir, and I'm afraid I'll never be able to catch up with training......"

Although Yebara was angry, seeing that Schneider was so sincere, he didn't delve into it, but just warned Schneider not to make an example, so he motioned for him to make up for the warm-up.

Unexpectedly, Schneider said: "Sir, I ran all the way from the parking lot, and I ...... if I want to warm up."

But this time Schneider didn't let him go so easily: "Go warm up!"

Schneider is good to warm up.

There was a burst of laughter among his teammates over Schneider's scolding.

But Zhou Yi was dumbfounded: "I'll go, are the Germans all such tendons? Such an obvious lie just let him go? Can't the coach hear it?"

Mark complained: "I'm also German, I can see it." From what I know about him, Schneider is definitely not the kind of person who cares. Whether it's for a dog, or for an old lady. ”

"Then the coach will not see it?" Zhou Yi asked in surprise.

"Maybe it'...... There are other considerations. Mark guessed.

When the two of them were huddled together and whispering about Schneider, Schneider noticed them.

When he saw that Zhou Yi and Mark were also in the team, he was stunned for a moment.

Seeing that he was discovered, Zhou Yi waved his hand to Schneider and said generously: "Hi, Schneider." I said at the beginning, I'm your teammate. ”

These words instantly evoked Schneider's not very good memories, in his opinion, Zhou Yi said this at this time, it was simply a provocation!

So Schneider glared at Zhou Yi viciously and did not respond to him.

At the same time, he also noticed Mark standing next to Zhou Yi, and was also very surprised - how did this waste come to U19?

In the face of Schneider's unfriendly gaze, Mark did not lower his head this time, but met his gaze and met him.

Schneider was not used to such a mark, but now that he was in such a public spot, he couldn't do anything about it, so he could only twist his head away and snort disdainfully in his heart.

Anyway, they'll be back to the U17 soon, so there's nothing to worry about.

U19 is different from U17, the boys who haven't grown their hair together!

Schneider couldn't figure out how Zhou Yi and Mark got to the U19s, and since he left the U17s, he hadn't paid attention to that place again, unlike Götze, who knew to say hello to his old teammates and catch up. Schneider, however, is as arrogant as if he has become a first-team star, and looks down on his former teammates.

His idea is also very simple - those people are still in the U17, which means that they are all a group of poor creatures with poor strength, what reason does he, who has taken the initiative to become a big star, still mix with them?

So he naturally doesn't know how good Zhou Yi and Mark played in the just-concluded U17 Ruhr derby, let alone how good Zhou Yi and Mark performed in the previous series of warm-up matches.

Although the Under-19 and U17 dressing rooms are only a two-minute walk away, and the Under-19 and U17 training grounds are separated by a barbed wire wall and a ramp, for Schneider it was as far away as the distance from Dortmund to Munich.

He didn't care how Mark and Zhou Yi got to U19, because in his opinion, the result was the same, and it wouldn't be long before the two of them would roll back to U17, where they were supposed to be poor creatures.

Rot there!

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The U19 training session in the morning was mainly a variety of training sessions for the whole team, in addition to the warm-up, it was defensive training, offensive training, passing training and shooting training...... and other regular training content.

It's not much different from the U17, it's just that the intensity is higher and the pace is faster.

It can be seen that as the highest level in the youth team sequence, the training of the U19 is already the strongest training that a young player can receive.

Although the U23 on the Internet has the letter "U", it is not actually a youth team, but a reserve team.

The German team's reserve team is not called "reserve" like England, nor is it called "second team", and it is not called "B team" like Spain.

It's U23.

When the Under-19s get older, some of them will be promoted to the Under-23s, while some of them will not meet the requirements of the team and will leave the team to play in other teams. Only a small number of them will be transferred directly to the first team because of their outstanding talent and outstanding performance, and even if they go to the first team, they may not be able to play the game immediately, more often they follow the first team training, but the game has to go to the reserve team.

Götze is such a genius, he was directly transferred from the U17 to the first team, and he can only follow the training and cannot play.

Therefore, from the youth team to the first team, the gap in the middle is the same as the moat, if you don't put in more effort than ordinary people, if you don't have talent beyond ordinary people, and if you don't have luck, you may just be a youth team player for the rest of your life.

In the afternoon training, Zhou Yi completed part of the training tasks with the team, and then was taken to the gym.

Zhou Yi is no stranger to the gym, he has been practicing here for two months before.

And this time, he's here to practice...... Strength.

Waiting for him in the gym is no longer the strength and conditioning coach Bartlet, but the strength training staff of Florian Wanle, who is responsible for strength training, and you can tell what he is responsible for just by looking at his appearance, because he looks almost like a bodybuilder, and his upper body is perfectly shaped in an inverted triangle.

Compared with him, Zhou Yi is like a little bean ding.

"Hello, Chinese boy, I am the number one hunk in the Dortmund club. When shaking hands with Zhou Yi to introduce himself, Wangle joked. "You can call me 'coach', but I'd be happier if you called me 'macho'. ”

At only twenty-eight years old, he was a little more lively than Bartlet, who was almost forty.

"Okay, macho coach. Zhou Yi held his hand and said.

Hearing Zhou Yi call him that, Wangle laughed happily: "I promise that you will have a great future in Dortmund!"

"Is it because I call you that, Coach Macho?" Zhou Yi asked.

"Not exactly. Wangle waved his hand, a little more serious. "You're a young man who Jurgen thinks so highly of, and I've never seen him do anything like that. You know, Oliver and I are both members of the first-team coaching staff, but now we're going to give you a little bit of a start. Do you know what you expect?"

Zhou Yi nodded.

"So you're scared now, Chinese boy?" Wangle winked playfully again. "It's too late to give up now. ”

"It's okay. Zhou Yi shrugged. "If I had to give up, I would have given up a long time ago, and I wouldn't have waited until now. ”

Wangle whistled: "Ambition, I admire you, Chinese boy!"

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After the teasing, the formal training began.

Or rather, the prologue part of the formal training begins.

Wangle was not in a hurry to start letting Zhou Yi start training on the equipment.

Instead, he asked a question that Zhou Yi was very familiar with.

"How do you understand power, Chinese boy?"

Zhou Yidu wondered if Wangle had colluded with Batlet......

This time he didn't directly say the nonsense of "strength is power", he thought about it a little, considered the question from a football perspective, and then gave his answer: "The ability to fight physically, that's how I understand it." ”

After seeing the smile on Wangle's face, Zhou Yi hurriedly said, "Is it wrong again?"

Wangle smiled even brighter: "Not exactly. ”

Zhou Yi had an expression of "I know".

Wangle continued: "It's true that strength includes the concept of physical confrontation, but for footballers, it's not just that. You came to me because of your lack of physical confrontation ability, and I will naturally help you gain basic physical confrontation ability, but strength training is not just about making you a muscular man, although I don't think there is anything wrong with a muscular man, but you are a football player, and being wrapped in muscles is not necessarily a good thing. ”

"Because that will affect the flexibility and balance of the body?" Zhou Yi asked.

Wangle snapped his fingers, "Yes." So the strength of a player and the strength of a wrestler are two concepts. Physical confrontation is only one part, the other part refers to the strength of your muscles, and this part of the strength is not used to fight against others, but to increase your ability in other areas, such as...... Speed, such as bouncing, like balance, also protects you from injury. ”

The last statement, strength training can save him from injury, but it made Zhou Yi very curious, and it was the first time he heard this statement.

"Can you protect me from injury?" he asked.

"Of course. Think about it -- when you jump up and fight with your opponent, you fall out of the air, what happens when you hit the ground? You're going to bend your legs, aren't you?"

Zhou Yi nodded, wasn't that an instinctive action?

"This is a subconscious protection mechanism of the human body, if your legs don't bend and fall straight down, what will happen if you don't have cushioning, the force will all work on your bones and joints, and then your two legs will ...... It's gone. But it's because of the bending of your knees that you cushion a large part of the impact and protect your joints and bones. If you have strong leg muscles, you can better control your knees, and you can achieve better posture control for landing, which can effectively avoid injury. ”

"Of course, in football, not every landing is done with you in control. Sometimes, you'll have to use some unconventional and dangerous maneuvers to get to the ground. If your hamstrings are too weak to control your knees, you will land on the ground with a stiff straight leg, which will cause your tibia to move forward, which will put pressure on the ACL, or anterior cruciate ligament. When the knee is in a near-straight position, the hamstrings are at a structural disadvantage when it comes to stabilizing the tibia forward, resulting in an ACL injury. Conversely, when the knee is bent, the impact does not cause the tibia to move forward. The greater the ability of the knee to flex, the lower the probability of developing an ACL strain. ”

Zhou Yi found that no matter what kind of person he usually is, when it comes to his professional aspects, there is actually no difference between Wangle and Bartlet...... Conscientious and responsible, and full of jargon. Give him a feeling of "unknowing".

Seeing that Zhou Yi's expression became more and more confused the more he listened, Wangle knew that it was still difficult for Zhou Yi to understand so many professional terms he said in one breath, so he gave a simpler example.

"During the warm-up, did you do such a warm-up action?" Wangle said and motioned for Zhou Yi to come over, and then he held Zhou Yi's arm, lifted his left leg, bent and closed it and hung it in the air, his upper body remained straight, and his right leg slowly bent down, and when it was almost ninety degrees between his thigh and calf, he slowly straightened it again.

Then it bends and straightens, repeating several sets over and over again.

Of course, Zhou Yi did this warm-up action, he and Mark held each other's arms, and then squatted on one leg, a group of ten times, did it once, and continued on one leg. This kind of warm-up is relatively difficult, because the speed that requires depth is slow, and at the same time, it is still one leg, and the two of them pull each other, sometimes it is difficult to maintain balance, and the body will dangle. At this point, the assistant coach will remind them loudly to keep their upper body straight and balanced.

"This warm-up involves a lot of muscles, including the hamstrings. Wangle pointed to the muscles in the back of his thighs. "The hamstrings, which run down from the glutes maximus, are like twisted ropes that connect your knees. It is the main muscle that controls the knee joint. This warm-up is an effective workout for your hamstrings and can help you improve your control of your knees. When you're training, does the coach remind you to keep your balance?"

Zhou Yi nodded.

"If you are dangling, it means that you don't have good knee control, on the one hand, you don't achieve the purpose of training, and on the other hand, it can lead to knee ligament injuries. ”

As soon as Wangle explained this, Zhou Yi suddenly realized.

He originally thought that squats were just training to strengthen his legs and then improve his jumping......

I didn't expect there to be so much exquisiteness.

"So, now you understand what power does, right?"

"Understood, increase the ability to fight, and at the same time protect yourself. ”

"That's right. Wangle snapped his fingers again. "Now that we understand what 'power' is, let's take a look at your situation. Your first problem now is the lack of physical confrontation, which is a comprehensive confrontation that involves muscles in many parts of the body. The leg muscles are very important, and if you can't stand steadily, you won't be able to resist the pressure of the other person. But the leg muscles are often involved in daily training, so we don't start with the leg muscles first, but with the arms. ”

Wangle grabbed Zhou Yi's arm and sighed, "This little arm...... I'm afraid I'll cut you off, Chinese boy. ”

Zhou Yi hurriedly said: "Don't worry, Coach Macho, I am not short of calcium." ”

"But you're short of protein powder. "From now on, you're going to have to supplement with protein powder after your daily strength training." At the very least, it will make you look less skinny. If I hadn't been to China and seen you like this, I really wondered if China hadn't solved the problem of food and clothing. ”

As soon as Wangle said this, the problem immediately rose to the level of "China's image", and Zhou Yi's small body must be practiced so as not to discredit the motherland......

"There's a saying 'football is a leg sport'. But this sentence is false, football is a full-body sport, and upper body strength is indispensable. Why do you want to start with arm strength? Do you imagine that when you play a ball, do you use your arms a lot to block the opponent's aggression against you?"

Zhou Yi nodded: "Yes." ”

"So if you want to improve your physical confrontation, you have to train your arm muscles. In addition, physical contact requires mastery of balance, and the arms play a crucial role in maintaining balance. Did you do one of your warm-ups when you stood on one leg with a soccer ball?"

"Yes, there is. Zhou Yi said.

It is that each player holds a football, then stands on one leg, making sure that the knees of both legs do not collide together, hold on for 30 seconds, and continue on another leg.

Zhou Yi actually didn't understand the meaning of this warm-up.

But it didn't matter, Wangle explained it to him right away.

"This warm-up is primarily your hip flexors, including the psoas major, psoas minor, ilia, and rectus femoris, hip extensors, including the glutes and hamstrings, in addition to the tensor fascia lata, sartorius muscles, and iliotibial band. It is mainly about training balance, and many knee injuries occur because the body is not reacting quickly when the body is out of balance. Standing on one leg can improve your balance and knee control in different sports – you see, the ability to control your muscles. ”

"But why do you want to hold a football? One leg training is enough to practice balance......" Zhou Yi asked his doubts.

That's what I'm going to talk about next. Quite simply, because holding a soccer ball causes some distraction and a shift in balance, your hands can't help you keep your balance, so the brain and spinal cord area will adjust the balance more subconsciously. ”

This does make sense, Zhou Yi felt that it was more difficult to stand on one leg with a football than on one leg without reporting the football.

"So, good football players, their upper body strength is very developed, you can see it from the picture when they take off their shirts. We start with the strength of the upper limbs, and then gradually increase the training of other parts of the body, and finally let your body strength reach a balanced state. But the most important first thing is ......"

Wangle looked Zhou Yi up and down, and then said.

"You're going to gain weight. ”