"Push-ups are a training method that exercises the shoulders, arms, waist and abdomen. During training, the body needs to be kept in a straight line from shoulders to ankles. The arms should be placed on the chest, with the hands slightly wider than the shoulders apart, and the palms of both hands Stick to the ground and support your body to move up and down. One back and forth is counted as one, and one hundred is considered qualified! Just like this!"
In the side tent of the Xuanjia Army, Li Zexuan was explaining the essentials of push-ups to Zhang Shigui, Sun Tao and others, while demonstrating it himself. This was the first time for everyone to see such a strange movement, and they couldn't help but widen their eyes, with incomprehensible expressions on their faces. , because none of them have personally experienced this training method, so they don’t know how effective the actual training is, and for a while no one made any comments!
After all, the scene where Li Zexuan was angry at Sun Tao and Zhang Kangnian was still vivid in his mind. At this time, no one was willing to take a shot at him!
"As for pull-ups, people need to use both hands to grab a fixed beam. The height of the beam is slightly higher than the person's height. After grabbing the beam, they rely entirely on the strength of their arms to pull their body upwards. Similarly, one up and one down. Back and forth, it counts as one, and fifteen is considered qualified!”
Seeing that everyone was silent, Li Zexuan continued to explain.
But there was no horizontal bar in the camp, and he couldn't give a personal demonstration to everyone. He could only use words and some simple body movements to explain.
One hundred push-ups and fifteen pull-ups. Li Zexuan came up with this standard by referring to the training standards of some modern troops.
Sun Tao, Zhang Kangnian, Lu Da and Sun Zhiping were all silent, with no expression on their faces. However, Zhang Shigui, who had not spoken since entering the camp, closed his eyes at this time, as if he was deep in thought or dozing off. Stay completely aloof from the incident.
Li Zexuan smiled and was not angry about this. After all, Zhang Shigui's qualifications in the military were there. He could ignore Sun Tao, but he could not despise Zhang Shigui! The shadow of a famous tree!
"The purpose of push-ups and pull-ups is mainly to train the arm and shoulder strength of the soldiers. Just imagine, what is the most common action performed by the Xuanjia Army on the battlefield? It is riding on a horse and waving the horse to chop. It's fine to do this once or twice, but if they face thousands or even hundreds of thousands of enemies, each person will have to swing the horse sword at least hundreds or thousands of times, and Xuanjia Every soldier in the army wears heavy armor. As a result, the requirements for the soldiers' arm and shoulder strength are even higher! This is why I want the soldiers to insist on push-ups and pull-ups. !”
After the tent was quiet for a moment, Li Zexuan slowly opened his mouth to analyze for everyone.
Hearing this, a look of understanding flashed across the eyes of Sun Tao, Zhang Kangnian, Lu Da and Sun Zhiping. Zhang Shigui finally opened his eyes and for the first time clasped his fists towards Li Zexuan and said:
"This point of joining the army makes sense! As heavy armored cavalry, the Xuanjia Army mainly uses the momentum of their horses on the battlefield to stab the enemy with their horses! Back then, the Holy Emperor used 3,000 Xuanjia Army to defeat Wang Shichong's 100,000-strong army. At that time, the soldiers who were lucky enough to survive the battle were unable to use their arms for half a month because they killed them too hard!
In that battle, the soldiers wielded their horseshoes more than a hundred times? Some soldiers have done it thousands of times! Many soldiers died in battle not because they were injured, but because they were truly exhausted and were accidentally cut off from their horses by the enemy! I just thought about the push-ups and pull-ups mentioned in the army, and I feel that these two training methods can indeed enhance the arm strength of soldiers. I think this method is feasible! "
surprise!
Zhang Shigui, as the oldest Xuanjia Army general in the branch, actually stood up to support Li Zexuan's new training method. This surprised Li Zexuan. He thought to himself, it seems that Lao Zhang is quite "knowledgeable"!
"Haha! General Zhang is really as bright as a torch!"
Li Zexuan smiled and greeted Zhang Shigui with a fist pump.
The reason why Zhang Shigui is not called Captain Zhang is that among the five major captains of the Xuanjia Army, in addition to Zhang Shigui's surname Zhang, there is another named Zhang - Zhang Kangnian; of course, more importantly, Zhang Shigui is in the army. With his qualifications and achievements recorded in history books, he is indeed worthy of the title of general!
"Hmph! Even if these push-ups and sit-ups are really useful, what about long-distance running and fighting training? Our Xuanjia Army is a cavalry, why do we need long-distance running? Why do we need to practice fighting?"
Zhang Shigui was too senior. He even said push-ups and sit-ups were useful. How could the other 4th Battalion captains present disagree? Sun Tao cocked his neck and looked at Li Zexuan, then asked with some dissatisfaction and reluctance.
Li Zexuan glanced at this "silly guy" indifferently, and then said:
"The Xuanjia Army is certainly a cavalry, but it is also a heavy cavalry. On the battlefield, the soldiers of the Xuanjia Army must wear dozens of kilograms of heavy armor to fight the enemy bravely. This will be a terrible drain on physical strength. Just now General Zhang also said that when the Holy Emperor led the Xuanjia Army to defeat Wang Shichong, most of the soldiers who died in that battle died of exhaustion. This shows how important physical strength is to the soldiers of the Xuanjia Army! And long-distance running training, It’s the best way to exercise endurance and increase physical strength! Only by allowing soldiers to adapt to the high-intensity training under armor-bearing conditions can they truly be able to operate with ease on the battlefield!"
Having said this, Li Zexuan paused deliberately to give the people in the tent some time to digest. In fact, running is indeed the best way to train a person's endurance and physical strength, and running exercises a person's comprehensive ability. When a person runs, all parts of the body move. Therefore, in modern times, running has become the most commonly used method by humans. It is a way of exercising, but it was rare in the ancient military.
After a while, Li Zexuan continued to explain:
"As for why the soldiers are required to undergo combat training, this is also very simple. It is because our Xuanjia Army is heavy cavalry! The light cavalry focuses on the skills of individual cavalry and archery. Their main role on the battlefield is pursuit and long-range strikes. As for the heavy cavalry, they focus on charging and melee combat!
Each of our soldiers wears hard armor, so we are not afraid of the enemy's dense rain of arrows. We can use our bodies to tear a hole in the enemy's defensive formation, but what about after completing the charge? Does it automatically win? Won't! After the charge is completed, the enemy's formation will be in chaos. At this time, our soldiers need to engage in close combat with the enemy. If the soldiers' personal strength is not good, how can they kill the enemy? "
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