Liu Da was not in a good mood.
During the day's training, Liu Da and Zhu Feng sparred. Zhu Feng allowed him five goals in each set, but after several consecutive sets, Liu Da still failed to win.
Although Liu Da also knew that his strength was not as good as Zhu Feng, Liu Da did not expect that the gap between him and Zhu Feng had reached such an extent.
As an athlete, Liu Da certainly understands that performance is inseparable from hard work. Everyone knows that Zhu Feng practices extra every day, so Zhu Feng's good results are expected by everyone.
Liu Da was also brave after realizing his shame. He decided to learn from Zhu Feng and give himself a small start after the training.
So after dinner, Liu Da took a shower, changed into clean sportswear, and came to the door of the training room.
"The lights are on, and there is indeed someone inside. It must be Zhu Feng who is practicing in there." Liu Da stretched his head and looked into the room.
However, the scene in front of him made Liu Da look surprised. He saw Dai Li and Zhu Feng lying on the ground, slowly making strange movements.
"What are they doing?" Liu Da was stunned on the ground, his eyes wide open, looking at the two of them in surprise.
"This looks like they are practicing yoga! Two of them are practicing yoga! Two men are practicing yoga!" Liu Da observed for a while and came to this conclusion in his mind.
The scene of two big men practicing yoga on the ground is indeed too incongruous!
Liu Da stood at the door and watched for several minutes, not daring to enter.
Suddenly, someone tapped Liu Da on the shoulder from behind.
"Liu Da, what are you looking at!"
This voice was very familiar to Liu Da. It was his teammate Gao Xiaolong.
"Shh, don't talk!" Liu Da made a gesture to silence, and then pointed at Dai Li and Zhu Feng in the training room.
"Coach Li, and Zhu Feng! They are... practicing yoga! Am I right? They are practicing yoga!" Gao Xiaolong showed a ghostly expression.
"It's yoga." Liu Da nodded.
"Why do they practice yoga? Two men!" Gao Xiaolong asked.
"How could I know!" Liu Da shook his head.
Both of them understand that the exercise effect of yoga is almost zero for high-level professional athletes, so neither of them understands why Dai Li and Zhu Fengfeng practice yoga.
A few minutes later, three more athletes came one after another. They were also here for extra training. When they saw Dai Li and Zhu Feng in the training room, they stopped at the door and looked at Dai Li and Zhu Feng in surprise. Zhu Feng.
It's weird enough for high-level professional athletes to use yoga as training, let alone two men practicing it.
Ten minutes later, Dai Li and Zhu Feng finished their actions and found that five people were already standing at the door.
"Liu Da? Gao Xiaolong? Are you here to practice too? Why are you standing at the door and not coming in!" Zhu Feng asked.
"We..." Liu Da and Gao Xiaolong looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Instead, Zhu Feng explained first: "Coach Li is taking me to practice yoga! It can improve the body's flexibility. Do you want to come over and try it too?"
"It's really yoga!" A few people at the door looked at each other, with expressions of surprise once again.
"Brother Liu, even if yoga can improve the body's flexibility, for us professional athletes, the effect shouldn't be as good as regular training, right?" someone next to him asked in a low voice.
"It stands to reason." Liu Da nodded silently.
"Then why does Zhu Feng still practice yoga? Isn't this a waste of time?" the person next to him asked.
"Maybe it will have some effect." Liu Da continued with some unconfidence: "Coach Li's level is quite high. He shouldn't teach something that has no effect! What he teaches must be of some use."
"How about we try it too?" A young athlete behind said eagerly.
This proposal aroused the interest of many people. After all, there was Zhu Feng's precedent there.
Zhu Feng is the strongest athlete on the table tennis team in Hanbei Province, and he is certainly representative. His willingness to practice yoga also has an advertising effect.
"I'll try it." Liu Da nodded.
"You guys go and try it, I won't go. Yoga is just a thing that ordinary people can practice. If we athletes practice it, it will have no effect." Gao Xiaolong shook his head and said.
"I think so. We are professional athletes and we usually have so many targeted training subjects! There is no need to do yoga!" Another person agreed with Gao Xiaolong's view.
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Liu Da and two other athletes joined the ranks of practicing yoga.
After a week of practice, Li Dai's yoga movements have become much more proficient. At this time, Li Dai does not behave like a beginner. At least when doing the movements, Liu Da will not have doubts.
However, Liu Da is still very doubtful about the effect of practicing yoga. As a professional athlete, he does not think that yoga will improve himself. If it weren't for Zhu Feng's leading role, Liu Da wouldn't even try to get better.
The next morning, Liu Da encountered the same situation as Zhu Feng.
"Liu Da, if it hurts, just scream out. If you scream out, it will be easier. You don't have to hold it back." As the coach said, the stretching movements on his hands were also a little lighter.
"It doesn't hurt, just a little sore at first." Liu Da replied.
"Are you just a little sore?" The coach continued in surprise: "Usually when you stretch to this extent, you must be screaming in pain! Then I'll work harder."
Liu Da also felt changes in himself after the coach reminded him.
"Could it be that practicing yoga is really effective?" Liu Da thought in shock.
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When Zhu Feng came to the training room, he found that the three new athletes who joined last night were already waiting there. They had obviously tasted the benefits of practicing yoga.
"Liu Da, you came earlier than me today!" Zhu Feng said.
"Hehe..." Liu Da smiled sheepishly, and then asked, "When will Coach Li come over?"
"It will take about 20 minutes!" Zhu Feng said, approaching Liu Da, and then asked: "How about it, is practicing yoga effective?"
Liu Da nodded seriously: "If I hadn't experienced it myself, I wouldn't have believed that yoga can have such a great effect on us professional athletes."
"Coach Li said that his yoga is specially designed for athletes, and other people's yoga does not have such good results! You have just started practicing now. When you practice for a longer time, you will be able to feel how powerful Coach Li is. ." Zhu Feng said confidently.
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Three days later.
"Snapped!"
Liu Da relied on an extreme action to save the ball and successfully scored this point.
"Good shot!" As the opponent, Gao Xiaolong couldn't help but blurt out these two words.
"Liu Da, you have been very aggressive in the past few days. We have played dozens of games in the past two days, and I haven't won a single game!" Gao Xiaolong said with some dissatisfaction.
"Who told you not to practice yoga!" Liu Da curled his lips.
"Practice yoga? Are you trying to tell me that you became so powerful by practicing yoga?" Gao Xiaolong said as if joking.
Liu Da didn't mean to see the joke. He nodded seriously: "Of course it's yoga! If it didn't work, I definitely wouldn't practice it every day. Since I started practicing yoga, my technical movements are now more coordinated than before. It has done a lot of difficult technical moves in a lot of moments, and it still doesn’t look out of shape.”
Gao Xiaolong still looked unconvinced. In his subconscious, he still felt that the amount of yoga training would not be effective at all for professional athletes.
Although Gao Xiaolong does not believe in yoga, it does not mean that others do not believe it either.
When some athletes learned that Zhu Feng, Liu Da and others practiced yoga every night, they also chose to join in. And when they feel the effect of flexibility yoga, they will come to the training room every day to practice yoga.
After all, human beings are social animals, so they all have a herd mentality, especially in the domestic system. Professional athletes were in sports schools when they were young and on sports teams when they grew up. From childhood to adulthood, they have always been in a group, even those who are very individual. The edges have long been smoothed off and the habit of following the herd has been developed.
It's like a college dormitory. If three of the four people in a dormitory are playing chicken, then the last one will definitely start playing too. In the same way, if three people go out to play basketball on the weekend, then the remaining one will go together to make up the numbers even if he is terrible at basketball.
So as more and more athletes join the ranks of practicing yoga, others are choosing to join in. Even people like Gao Xiaolong, who had never believed in flexibility yoga, eventually joined the ranks of practicing yoga.
And when athletes feel the effects of flexibility yoga, they won't quit. Dai Li's "yoga class" quickly grew.
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"Hello, Coach Li!"
"Coach Li, you are here!"
"Coach Li, when do we start practicing?"
As soon as Dai Li walked into the training room, he was immediately surrounded by stars.
Nowadays, Dai Li's "yoga class" has attracted all the athletes from the table tennis team. Every night, Dai Li will be followed by dozens of athletes practicing yoga, and the scene is quite spectacular. People who don’t know may think this is a yoga class in a gym.
Seeing so many athletes waiting for him in the training room early, Dai Li felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.
As a coach, being able to gain the support of athletes is obviously a sign of success. And now all the athletes from the table tennis team are attracted here, which makes Dai Li feel even more complacent.
"As a coach, you should be satisfied if you can do what I do!" Dai Li couldn't help but smile, but he always felt that there was still something missing.
"By the way, there are still results. If we can win another championship now, then everything will be perfect!" Dai Li looked at the athletes in front of him with longing. He knew that this goal was not far away, because the National Table Tennis Championships, Coming soon!