Orc Undead Sports Warrior

Chapter 157 Fame is Hard-Won

Back at the Haigeng training base, Lu Wei quickly got back into character.

Because they participated in the Asian Athletics Championships, the athletes' holidays were later than others, so their return to the team was also later.

After conducting a physical examination on Lu Wei, Zou Zhen held Lu Wei's medical report, and his brows finally relaxed.

"Finally, I've found someone with a decent body fat percentage, 8.5%, which is pretty good. Look at Hu Ge and Huo Jianhua, they're almost as fat as pigs now. I think they've been eating so much these past few days that their bellies are practically popping out."

Zou Zhen spoke with a tone of utter anguish, though there was some exaggeration involved. After the Spring Festival holiday, the track and field team members generally experienced weight gain.

This is not because they are not disciplined enough. Many people control their diet quite well. It's just that it's hard to guarantee the amount of training when they are at home during the holidays.

Especially during the Spring Festival, when the festive atmosphere is at its strongest, training alone not only requires enduring strange looks from others, but also overcoming one's own laziness.

Maintaining one's abilities completely is a very difficult thing.

However, some people still managed to persevere during the holiday, such as Liu Feiren.

Although I spent the holiday at home, my training never slacked off. In fact, I maintained the same training intensity every day as when I was at Haigeng.

If you want to stabilize your performance with a huge amount of training, this stage should be the most important time.

Only at this stage can the body withstand such intense training. As the competition approaches, not only is the body fatigued from training, but it also cannot maintain the previous high training volume.

The fear of injury can also make it difficult for athletes to focus their energy on the competition as the competition approaches.

After the Asian Indoor Championships, the Chinese athletics team will face the World Indoor Athletics Championships in March. Because the competition is indoors, many events are different from those outdoors, and even the same events feel very different.

Therefore, for everyone, the Indoor Athletics Championships are actually the warm-up event for this season. Many athletes treat it as a warm-up activity.

If the project performs well and achieves a good ranking, it means that the current state is good, and efforts should be made to maintain this state.

However, one shouldn't reach peak performance too early, as a person's energy is limited. Similarly, an athlete cannot maintain peak performance for all 12 months of the year.

If a season's results are too good, many athletes will actually increase their basic training in order to consolidate their current form and gradually suppress their performance, so that they can always keep their form ready to improve.

It's very frustrating for athletes to perform poorly in competitions at the beginning of the year. If they're not in good form and their results aren't improving, they need to look for the reasons within themselves.

Regardless of how the competition goes, it's a season of training and getting a feel for the game through physical experience.

During this period, Lu Wei focused his training on strength and explosiveness.

Winter training is the best opportunity to build up physical strength. If the competition schedule is too tight, athletes will experience physical exhaustion. Lu Wei requires his colleagues to participate in the 100-meter and 400-meter races, as well as the shot put and javelin events in the field events. Of course, he also wants them to participate in the 4x100-meter relay race in addition to the above four events.

Team competitions always attract a lot of attention, especially after the Chinese relay team won the bronze medal in Osaka, which inspired many dreams and even fantasies among the Chinese people.

In the past, the Chinese track and field team was always overshadowed by the Japanese team, and they had not won the 4x100m relay against the Japanese team for many years. This made track and field professionals and enthusiasts in China lose their enthusiasm for this event.

Any event where you can't beat the Japanese team is just so disappointing.

Fortunately, track and field doesn't receive as much attention as football. Over the years, the men's relay team has lost so many battles, big and small, that people have long labeled them as having a phobia of Japan. But thinking about it, it's not a big deal. The more you care, the easier it is to lose your composure.

"Wow! Look at Liu Feiren, isn't he amazing? He's simply unstoppable!"

Watching Liu Feiren train for hurdles, Shen Liang's mouth dropped open in astonishment. He felt that Liu Feiren was the person who had improved the most this winter, and he wasn't the only one who thought so; many others shared the same opinion.

In the first few weeks, Liu Feiren experienced extreme fatigue, but he persevered through the fatigue and discomfort.

Even Lu Wei felt that Liu Fei was truly remarkable. Under such circumstances, most people would find it difficult to have the courage to fight back.

However, Lu Wei also had a slight worry in his heart. Liu Feiren's training was so intense that his body was always in a state of fatigue. Even if the team's physical therapy facilities were excellent, it would be impossible to completely eliminate his fatigue.

Moreover, his training volume is notoriously abnormal in the track and field team. In the past, everyone envied Liu Feiren for being a naturally gifted athlete, who could maintain a top-three position in world competitions even with very little training.

However, when he won the gold medal at the Athens Olympics, it seemed that the scene of relaxed training gradually faded away from him.

To maintain his world champion status, he must face challenges from all sides. Perhaps this year, an athlete will perform exceptionally well and pose a significant challenge to him.

When a player's performance has already declined from its peak to a trough due to training reasons, another player will challenge him again.

Others can relax, but he can't relax for even a day. No one knows which genius will emerge from which direction to challenge his position.

Therefore, Liu Xiang's training volume has been increasing over the years, especially in Olympic years, when the pressure on his shoulders is immense.

To date, Liu Xiang has more than 15 endorsement contracts, and each of them likely includes bonuses linked to his performance. Under such circumstances, who can still quietly enjoy the joy that track and field brings to them on the training field?

We're no longer at that carefree age. Grades are a responsibility, and the better the grades, the greater the responsibility.

Thinking of this, Lu Wei could only silently wish Liu Feiren good luck, hoping that he could be a happy Liu Feiren for a few days when he was about to reach his limit of fatigue, and not always push himself to the limit.

Lu Wei couldn't imagine whether he could still leisurely enjoy the joy that speed brought him and the exhilarating feeling of throwing everything at the last minute when he was with Liu Feiren.

Although his performance last year was also remarkable, after shining at the World Championships, he reappeared in the public eye because of a wilderness survival experience program. It can be said that from autumn to winter, Lu Wei's news has always been about his achievements.

Even if they appear in the news, it's just one shot and that's it. With the media's rapid pace of change, they'll be forgotten quickly if they haven't been in the public eye for almost half a year.