An athlete with no shortcomings would be a great challenge for his or her coach .
Ordinary physical exercise would keep a person healthy, but professional sports training was a more targeted enhancement to a person's specific physical condition . For example, a man who was weak might need a strength enhancement routine, while another one who was slow might need a speed regimen . In other words, strong purposes guide professional sports training .
But the training for an athlete without shortcomings would lack direction or purpose, which would pose a great challenge for the coach .
An athlete like Anshan Wang had reached perfection in every aspect . What was the most important for him, and thus his coach's task, was to maintain his current state .
Sports training was like sailing against the current . Improper training would lead to a decline of the athlete's performance, which would be especially obvious for high-level athletes .
Therefore, Dai Li started thinking about the training plan for Anshan Wang after they met .
And Zhizhong Gu continued to introduce Dai Li to other athletes .
"Over there is Pengfei Cui, whom you might know . He is the most popular player on our National Table Tennis Team, having a lot of female fans," Gu said .
Pengfei Cui was also a Grand Slam champion in table tennis . As a top world-class player, he was of course technically perfect, and what's more, he played very aggressively . Thanks to his aggressiveness, he even out-achieved Anshan Wang several years ago .
Dai Li detected Cui at once .
His talent is Level S, a little lower than Anshan Wang's, but his Skill Points are 905, far less than Wang's . Oh, it's because of injuries!
Detection showed that Pengfei Cui's weakness didn't lie in technical skill . His shortcomings came from injuries on his shoulders, waist, knees, and ankles . At that moment, Cui was engulfed by injuries, both minor and severe .
Such results didn't surprise Dai Li at all . It had been reported long ago that Pengfei Cui was injured . And taking Cui's extreme aggressiveness in playing into consideration, it was not surprising that he was injured .
In table tennis, players who played aggressively were more likely to get hurt, and they usually had relatively shorter career life . Athletes of Pengfei Cui's kind often made difficult technical movements, which physically made games worth watching, but they paid for such games with their own physical injuries .
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Therefore, Pengfei Cui out-achieved Anshan Wang four or five years ago . He could won championships in almost every game he attended . At that time, Anshan Wang was said to be "second to Cui forever . " But in recent years, Pengfei Cui could not sustain his aggressive style of play because of his injuries . His competitive state was also rapidly declining .
"Here is Xiangxian Zuo," said Zhizhong Gu, "the only left-hand penhold player on our team . "
Zuo, also a world champion, once topped the world rankings and currently ranked third in the world .
Being a left-handed penhold player, it was easier for him to cooperate with doubles . So, he took part in more doubles matches than singles . And he won more championships in doubles .
There were few penhold table tennis players nowadays . Penhold was more flexible in receiving and dealt better with on-table situations . And it had more advantages in the first three strokes . However, with the change of the rules of table tennis, the advantages of penhold had been weakened, since penhold's abilities could also be performed through shake-hand grip .
The trend of professional table tennis over the last two years was to strengthen the backhand way of playing . It was obvious that shake-hand grip worked better with backhand than penhold .
And since the skill of Penhold Backhand appeared, it had become a necessary skill for penhold players . But Penhold Backhand's requirements for the player's wrist were very high, and it was very difficult to learn . What's more, even a mastery of Penhold Backhand might not equal Shake-hand Grip Backhand in terms of force . Since the benefits of penhold were not great, fewer athletes chose to use it .
Dai Li detected Xiangxian Zuo . He found that Zuo's talent was also Level S with Skill Points of 937, and Zuo was suffering from shoulder and back problems, too .
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Zhizhong Gu pointed to the fourth athlete . "Shuang Pang, the genius of our team . "
Dai Li knew that with everything going well, this Pang would be the next leading player in the National Men's Team after Anshan Wang's era .
Shuang Pang was the youngest genius in the National Table Tennis Team . When he was 14 years old, he already could defeat most of the players in the National Team Two . At the age of 15, Shuang Pang entered the National Team One . During the next year, he went through all the stages of in-team competitions and won the opportunity to take part in the WTTC . That year also saw him to the championships of the Table Tennis Opens in Germany and Poland in succession .
Shuang Pang was only 19 when Dai Li saw him, but he had already been crowned with a dozen world championships . He was second only to Anshan Wang in the world . And the gap between Wang and him in strength was not so big .
S+! Shuang Pang's talent is also S+! My prediction is right that every leading player of the National Table Tennis Team is Level S+ . However, he has some shortcomings, unlike Anshan Wang, who is perfect . But Pang is only 19 now . All he needs to reach Wang's level is a bit more time, Dai Li thought .
The four main players in the National Men's Table Tennis Team—Anshan Wang, Pengfei Cui, Xiangxian Zuo and Shuang Pang—were all Level S athletes, and two of them were a breathtaking S+ . That was enough to show the strength of the National Team .
And then Zhizhong Gu introduced other players in the National Team One . There were no more Level S, but they all had Level A talent . The worst of them ranked Level . No Level B .
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Such a result made Dai Li worried about Feng Zhu . Feng Zhu was just Level B+ . It seemed that he could hardly enter the Team One .
Then Zhizhong Gu took Dai Li to the National Women's Table Tennis Team .
There were two S+ players of similar age . And there was only one Level S player on the Women's Team .
But there were three S- and five athletes on the team . The worst in the National Women's Team One was Level A . No Level existed in the team . It could be inferred that the competition in the Women's Team was fiercer than that in the Men's Team .
Gu and Li's next destination was the National Table Tennis Team Two . They met with the Chief Coach Feihong Liu of Team Two there .
Players of Team Two were indeed not as skillful as their counterparts in Team One .
The women's situation was better than the men's . Level S players in the Women's Team were newly joined, so they hadn't achieved anything yet . The Men's Team, however, didn't have young Level S players . Most of the players in the team were Level A . The B+ talent of Feng Zhu was only ranked lower than the average .
After he introduced every player on the team, Zhizhong Gu said, "Dai Li, you just came here, so I will not give you training tasks . Your major task, for now, is to get familiar with the environment . You are a fitness coach . Please make a physical training plan for every player on our team . There are 78 players on our Teams One and Two . You have one month to make as many physical training plans as possible . "
"No problem!" Dai Li nodded at once, knowing that working out training plans was Zhizhong Gu's "test before posting" for him .Please download our sponsor's game to support us!