"Today's on-site trial training, our table tennis team will send three people. Each of you will be responsible for one person. The content, method and items of training are all decided by you." Wang Ping gave a weird smile and continued: "In order to To ensure the fairness of our competition and selection, we don’t use the athletes in the team. I specially found three ‘foreign players’ to receive your training.”
Li Dai and the other three nodded to express their understanding. All three of them are coaches of the provincial sports team, just like Wei Youdi, who has more than ten years of coaching experience and knows many people in the entire sports team. If the players on the table tennis team were being trained today, there might be situations where the coach participating in the competition and the athletes being trained knew each other and deliberately colluded to do some extra tricks.
And if athletes are found from other units, the coach and the athletes do not know each other, and there is no entanglement of interests. This kind of collusion is unlikely to happen.
After Coach Wang Ping finished speaking, he took out his mobile phone and dialed a phone number: "Teacher Zhang, come here!"
After a while, three old men wearing sportswear and holding table tennis rackets came over.
The three of them were probably in their early sixties, with well-proportioned figures, rosy complexions, and overall they looked very energetic.
"Is this the so-called 'foreign aid'? Why are there three old people!"
Li Dai, Wei Youdi and Wu Guang suddenly looked surprised. They had thought that Wang Ping would call three athletes from the city team in Qingcheng, from the Sports University, or even from the sports school. But what they never expected was that Wang Ping would Three old men were actually found.
"Let me introduce you. These three are retired cadres of our provincial party committee and are also senior table tennis enthusiasts. This is Mr. Zhang. When he was young, Mr. Zhang won the championship in the Qingcheng Amateur Table Tennis Tournament. .”
"This is Mr. Liu. Mr. Liu once won three consecutive championships in the table tennis competition of the province's transportation system."
"This is Mr. Chen. When he was young, Mr. Chen was also a professional table tennis player and participated in national competitions. He is our senior!"
"In the next day, these three old leaders will be left to you." Wang Ping said, turning to look at the three old people, and said politely: "Three old leaders, these are our team Of the three coaches, you can choose whoever you want to train with."
Mr. Liu was the first to speak: "Among the three of us, I am the oldest, so I will also choose an older coach!"
Mr. Liu said and pointed at Wei Youdi.
Wei Youdi is indeed older than Wu Guang and Li Dai, which can be clearly seen from his appearance.
But being selected by Mr. Liu, Wei Youdi felt very bitter in his heart. He had never had any experience in training the elderly, and Mr. Liu himself said that he was the oldest of the three old men. Storytellers often say: Old age does not rely on muscles and bones. This person is old, his body has declined, and his hands and feet are not as flexible as when he was young. When it comes to sports, the older you are, the greater your disadvantages are.
For people of this age, it is okay to practice Tai Chi and square dance, but it is really not suitable for participating in more intense and confrontational sports.
After Mr. Liu selected Wei Youdi, Mr. Zhang also stood up and pointed at Dai Li: "I will train with this young man today!"
"Then I have no choice." The last one, Mr. Chen, naturally wanted to train with Wu Guang.
Mr. Chen was a professional table tennis player when he was young, while Mr. Liu and Mr. Zhang were only amateurs. On the surface, it seems that Mr. Chen's foundation should be better.
But in fact, the level of these three people is almost the same.
The three elderly people are all over sixty years old. It was forty years ago that Mr. Chen became a professional athlete. In those days, if you wanted to be an athlete, the first requirement was not how talented you were, but you needed to be from a "poor peasant" background. . If you are not a "poor peasant", you will not be an athlete no matter how good your physical talent is.
Not only being an athlete, but also being a worker, a civil servant, or going to university, you have to be treated like a "poor peasant".
In addition, many people in that era did not have enough food to eat, and people were generally malnourished. They could not even have enough food to eat, let alone training, so even professional athletes were not at a very high level.
On the other hand, the level of table tennis enthusiasts in some factories and mining enterprises may be even higher. In the era of booming planned economy, factories did not need to focus on sales, only on production. Workers in that era were more powerful than civil servants. Workers at that time had urban household registration, could eat so-called "national treasury grains", and enjoyed the same treatment as civil servants. Since companies controlled production resources, they would also provide some additional benefits from time to time. , which is something ordinary civil servants cannot enjoy.
Therefore, the living conditions of many corporate workers in that era were actually better than those of professional athletes. There is an old saying that the poor are poor in culture and rich in martial arts. People with better living conditions are more comfortable engaging in sports.
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Li Dai also had no experience in training the elderly. When facing Mr. Zhang, Li Dai behaved like the other two and didn't know where to start.
"Coach Wang Ping is really arrogant. He actually hired three old men. Although these three old men all have some table tennis skills, they are not even a little bit worse than the young professional athletes. What's more, this is a provincial team, and there is no comparison between them and the professional athletes in the provincial team! So we can't train them in the same way as professional athletes."
"But these three people are not ordinary people. Their attainments in table tennis should be among the top amateurs. The same training methods used for ordinary people are not suitable for use on them."
"And considering their age, at their age, it is impossible to use extreme training methods, otherwise the body will not be able to bear it. If something happens to them due to exhaustion and they are sent to the hospital, they will really not be able to eat and walk around. ”
"It's so troublesome. It's much more troublesome than training athletes. When formulating training plans for the elderly, their age and physical endurance must be taken into consideration. Moreover, the bodies of the elderly are definitely more fragile than those of the young. It may be slightly heavier. Their bodies will not be able to support a larger training volume, so we must always pay attention to their reactions and adjust the training plan in a timely manner.”
"Wait a minute, I understand!"
At this moment, Li Dai finally figured out why Wang Ping came to find these elderly people.
"The reason why Wang Ping found these elderly people is not only to test our training ability, but also to test our ability to adapt and adjust. It is inherently difficult to formulate targeted training plans for the elderly. .This is the first test.”
"During training, the training plan is often adjusted according to the actual situation. However, due to their youth and physical reasons, the elderly must change the training plan faster and more accurately. This is a test of our adaptability and is the second most important test. .”
Thinking of this, Dai Li shook his head slightly. He felt sensitively that things might be more complicated. Maybe after he really starts training, there will be "third level" and "fourth level" tests waiting. Own.
"I knew that this deputy chief clerk would not be easy to get. This Wang Ping really prepared a sumptuous meal for us!"