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Chapter 53 Barcelona, ​​Attack!!!
"Wu Jin, dinner's ready!"

"How much did this guy swim this morning?"

"I practiced 50-meter sprints 20 times!"

"What's going on? Are you out of your mind?"

"..."

Wu Jin's old rivals Zhou Jiawei and Chen Zuo sat on the shore, watching the figures in the pool wearing resistance shorts struggling forward, and were both somewhat amazed.

Although the athletes who haven't yet developed aren't doing strength training, the sheer volume of sprint and resistance training still surprised several veteran athletes.

They're even more intense than the ones they've trained.

Is this still a 12-year-old child?
"I heard from my coach that this guy has broken the national record!"

"I reckon we're going to make a big splash at the World Championships!"

When Zhou Jiawei said this to Chen Zuo, he was actually quite gloating.

Since he did not win a world championship in the 50m freestyle, and his strongest event is the 100m butterfly, Wu Jin's 50m freestyle poses little threat to him.

But Chen Zuo is different; the 50-meter dash is one of the three events he mainly trains for.

Wu Jin breaking the national record means that Chen Zuo's three major events will become two events.

Sure enough, Chen Zuo suddenly turned his head: "22.33 seconds? He broke it?"

"I don't know, my coach told me that he and Coach Wu Jin have a very good relationship in private!"

"Depend on!"

"22.33 seconds? His championship time was only 22.62 seconds!"

Chen Zuo can barely improve his time by 0.1 seconds now, but this "kid brother" has improved by 0.3 seconds in just a few days?
This is nothing compared to shit!

Chen Zuo also wanted to find some time to try swimming the 50-meter course with Wu Jin.

I'm so annoyed by Zhou Jiawei's words that I don't even want to eat.

"No, I'll practice three more sets of entry into the water!"

Zhou Jiawei: "..."

Seeing Chen Zuo rushing into the pool again, Zhou Jiawei realized he was out of luck. He was starving and needed to eat first.

"Huffing and puffing~ Huffing and puffing~~~"

Wu Jin, who had just completed four sets of 50-meter short sprints with resistance pants, was panting heavily on the shore, too exhausted to even climb ashore.

"We'll do some proper recovery this afternoon, and practice departure reaction and core stability for a while!"

Xu Guoyi squatted on the shore and spoke to Wu Jin, who was exhausted.

To be honest, Xu Guoyi really thought highly of this newly accepted disciple.

Unlike his peers, this kid never complains about being tired. He set a goal of doing 10 rounds of 50-meter weighted sprints, and he insisted on doing an extra set.

While more volume doesn't necessarily mean better, this weighted sprint is a process of mastering the body, and the more proficient and inertial you are at the beginning, the better.

All the previous land-based core training and leg kicking exercises have been abandoned, as those are for practicing swimming strokes; what Wu Jin wants now is to get used to the most ideal swimming stroke that her body changes every day, so she can only find her best feeling through water simulation.

"it is good!"

I'll try it this afternoon!

Wu Jin, panting, said, and Xu Guoyi nodded: "The swimming style that adapts to development requires a lot of training to resist the growth of bones and muscles. It's already good enough to maintain this speed!"

"So what you can improve is your starting reaction time and your sprint speed after physical training!"

This is why many athletes don't swim as fast after puberty as they did before.

Physical development does not mean that you will swim faster. Maintaining speed throughout the developmental period is already a great success. However, many athletes can only adapt to the changes in body shape during development by adjusting their arm stroke amplitude!

Originally, the arm would extend 1.2 meters, which would make the stroke speed very fast.

However, if your arms remain at 1.2 meters after your arms and torso become longer, your swimming stroke will become less fluid and your speed will decrease. This is because if you could reach the end with 1.2 meters of arm length before, you might only reach two-thirds of the way with 1.2 meters of arm length after your arms become longer.

The swimming style will be very awkward.

At this point, it is necessary to change the swimming style and upgrade the arm stroke from 1.2 meters to 1.5 meters.

This means that your paddling speed will definitely slow down.

At this point, the swimming style needs to increase the distance of each arm stroke. Before, when the body was underdeveloped, each stroke would only move the swimmer half a meter forward in the pool. Now, if this distance is increased to 80 centimeters, it can compensate for this transformation.

Even faster...

This is why we need to adjust our swimming style – it's to make choices about what to do after development.

Wu Jin hasn't made these changes yet; adapting to different swimming styles takes time. With only a few days left until the World Championships, Xu Guoyi can only help him improve his performance through other details, such as his start reaction and sprint.

Swimming speed can be controlled through extensive and repeated training, and performance may improve or stabilize. This is the method of forcing growth in preparation for the World Championships.

"Let's go eat first. After you've rested this afternoon, you can take the test and see!"

Xu Guoyi pulled Wu Jin out of the pool, and Wu Jin shook her head: "Coach, let's test again in a few days. I feel like I just increased my training volume today, so I might not be in my best condition!"

The best approach is to adapt to this training method and then test your speed one day to see if it has dropped.

This is the ideal situation.

"Fine, you figure it out yourself!"

"I don't actually have any expectations for you at the World Championships. Whether you can maintain your speed depends on your own ability!"

"Ok!"

Wu Jin was well aware of this.

Exhausted, Wu Jin first took a shower in the changing room, and then headed to the cafeteria.

After finishing my meal, I went back to the dorm and lay down immediately. After a morning of training, I slept really well.

So the entire swimming team then saw a training maniac, practicing explosive power and posture in the morning to ensure smoothness in the water; in the afternoon, he focused on reaction and sprinting; and in the evening, he added several sets of low-intensity aerobic training.

A week has passed in the blink of an eye.

Besides going to the medical examination center to check her physical indicators every day, Wu Jin undergoes this kind of abnormal training.

At first, the training must have been incredibly intense, but after a week, the body has clearly started to adapt. It can only be said that the 12-year-old "developing body" is indeed the most vigorous stage for males.

It has an exceptionally high adaptability.

Wu Jin secretly tested her full-force sprint.

She didn't tell anyone about her results, and Xu Guoyi was unaware of them either; which led Chen Zuo and the others to believe that Wu Jin was training like crazy and that she had amazed everyone at the World Championships.

Apart from Cai Li and a few other members of the Zhejiang provincial team, everyone else agreed that Wu Jin was giving it her all for her first world championship.

Finally, after two months of inhuman training by Wu Jin, the Chinese swimming team ushered in their most important battle of 2003.

The 10th Barcelona World Swimming Championships!

"Our goal this time is to secure 12 and maintain 10!"

"The diving team maintains an 8-gold medal lead, while the swimming team will win at least 2!"

"..."

The team leader for this event, Shang Xiutang, who is also the deputy director of the Swimming Center, spoke to all the athletes participating in the World Championships about their pre-competition goals and declarations the day before their departure.

The last World Championships was in Fukuoka in 2001. With the inclusion of backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events in the men's and women's competitions, the number of gold medals in swimming increased to an unprecedented 40.

Starting with this edition, the World Swimming Championships will be held every two years.

Australia ultimately topped the overall medal table with 13 gold medals, followed by China with 10 gold medals and the United States with 9 gold medals.

Among them, the Chinese diving team won eight out of ten events.

They won two gold medals in swimming.

Therefore, 10 gold medals this year is the minimum requirement for this World Championships.

You can't be worse than the last one, right?
In fact, Fukuoka had a semi-host advantage in the last edition, since the venue was right next door; but this time Barcelona is in Europe, which is quite different geographically.

If Wu Jin remembers correctly, even with Luo Xuejuan's phenomenal performance and winning 3 gold medals at this year's Barcelona World Championships, it was still the worst performance in the history of the Chinese swimming team.

none of them.

Even in their strongest event, diving, they only managed to win 4 medals.

Looking at the future, this is absolutely unimaginable.

Not only will you be torn apart by netizens, but the State Administration of Radio and Television will also give you a hard time.

With only 4 out of 10 diving gold medals won, when has the Chinese diving team ever been this weak?
From Wu Jin's perspective as a reborn individual, this World Championships diving team is truly... indescribable.

Of course, this cannot be considered a bad thing.

It was precisely because of the failure in this diving competition that the Chinese diving team subsequently strengthened the technical difficulty and training focus, thus giving birth to the "global diving dream team"!
Dominating the gold medal count at the World Championships and Olympics multiple times!

Therefore, shame does not mean being disgraced; only by knowing shame and then acting bravely can one become the strongest force.

"Get a good night's sleep and make up for lost sleep!"

"No more training tonight. The first group of athletes to depart, assemble at the venue at 9:30 tomorrow morning!"

"Disband!"

With a wave of Shang Xiutang's hand, everyone headed towards the changing room.

Tomorrow, they will embark on their journey to Barcelona!
(End of this chapter)