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Chapter 101 Weakness

"Wow! This is so amazing! Just after watching the images and data for a while, you can find out the shortcomings and defects of Li Tian! This is simply too unbelievable." Watel was so surprised that he couldn't even close his mouth.

"Don't forget that Coach Hart is recognized by the World Field World as a 'gold medal coach'. This is his ability. He has a pair of golden eyes." Coach Karon smiled and reminded him, which made the four German young men nodded in admiration.

"Come here, Xiaotian, our future training must be highly targeted, so that we can improve our level after training. Now let's analyze your advantages and shortcomings in the 100-meter event." At Hart's greeting, Li Tian and the "four-man group" both approached together.

"If you want to become an excellent player, you must first fully understand yourself. Xiaotian, tell me what are your advantages in the 100-meter event?"

"My advantage?...I think my starting reaction speed is relatively fast, my technical movements are relatively standard, and my ability to maintain high speed during the runway is relatively strong." After thinking for a while, Li Tian expressed his thoughts.

"Yeah!" Coach Hart nodded in response and then said: "From your three starts, the average starting reaction time is 0.147 seconds. It can be said that it is very outstanding among world-class sprinters, thanks to your good reaction spirit and psychological quality. However, I personally don't attach much importance to this point as to whether your technical movements are standard. In the track and field industry, there is no standard standard for technical movements. I have always insisted that only suitable players are the best movements. Think about the weird and ugly running posture of "Forrest Gump" back then, which made him popular.

People are criticized, but no one can surpass him. He is still a pinnacle of the world's sprint. I admit that your running posture is quite beautiful and pleasing to the eye, but that's all. I have also guided you a group of young sprinters in the so-called "Recreation of Flying Man Program" sent to the United States to study. During this period, I discovered this same problem in them. You spent too much time training standard movements, blindly emphasizing the normativeness of movements, while American players spend this time to improve their physical fitness, and the effects of both are obvious."

"But there is also a clear explanation in the track and field textbooks that standard movements are conducive to improving the athlete's athletic level!" Li Tian was very dissatisfied when hearing Coach Hart criticize his movements for being only good-looking but not practical. He has long emphasized the importance of standard movements when training in China.

"Textbooks are also written by people. They do not represent the truth. It is very stupid to change a player's running habits casually. Each player's muscle strength, force habits and physical coordination are different. It is obviously very unreasonable to ask them to imitate the same standard. In the United States, coaches rarely change the athlete's natural running posture, because a player's movement habits are formed over many years, and the excess and inconsistent movements are constantly shaved during the period.

To make it fully adapt to your own physical functions, it is very conducive to the player's own advantages. Moreover, your current technical movements are not perfect, or even incomplete, and there is a major flaw in it." Coach Hart's serious expression made Li Tian no longer dare to challenge his authority, but when he heard Coach Hart say that there were major flaws in his technical movements, he was shocked. After years of boring and repeated practice, he always thought that his movements were close to perfection.

"And you have a strong ability to maintain high speed while running on the way, that's just relative to ordinary players, but you don't have an advantage over players like Green and Gatlin who have super-sprint abilities. And if you meet Gatlin in the game, you will definitely not be able to beat him at your current level. Do you know why?"

"Of course, my personal strength is not enough!" Li Tian admitted that it was too early to "walking" with Gatlin, the first person in the 100-meter project.

"The answer is too general, and I didn't say it at all. The reason why I can't run at all is because your skills and strength are not as good as him. Outstanding strides, coupled with absolute speed and strength, are Gatlin's three powerful tools for dominating today's 100-meter track. Your absolute speed is very good, but the other two behind will make you unable to gain a foothold among the world's top sprinters."

Coach Hart cleared his throat and continued: "Among the world-class players in the men's 100m event today, most of them need 45 steps to complete the 100m process. Among these people, Green and Powell are represented, while Gatlin only needs 42 steps to complete the entire schedule. This is the key to why he has been invincible in recent years. Let's take a look at your situation. Judging from my observation of your data just now, you averaged the entire process in the three groups of tests.

It takes 46 steps. It can be said that you are still more than one step away from the world-class level. Every extra step during the competition means that you will have more pauses on the ground, more stretching and more physical energy consumption, and more air resistance caused by limb swings. Although these are very subtle links, in the 100-meter game, which determines the winner in a thousandth of a second, these details can often determine the final result of the game."

"But the stride is directly related to height and legs. All the people you mentioned are over 1.80 meters tall, ten centimeters taller than me, and it is normal to have a stride larger than me!" Li Tian said to Coach Hart, who was only 178cm taller than him.

"This can also be made up for using technology. Now wide stride technology is the mainstream of sprinting events in the world. So in future training, I require you to increase the average stride of each step by about 5cm when running 100 meters, so that you can reduce a big step in the whole process. The key now is that you have to keep running at this appropriate rhythm, constantly adapt to the feeling of this stride, and let your body completely remember this feeling. This process is very hard."

"Okay, I understand! I will work hard to do it." Li Tian never bargained and always seriously supported the execution.

"But what the coach just said, what does the huge flaw in my technical movements mean? Does it mean my stride?" Li Tian couldn't wait to hear Coach Hart's explanation.

"It's the arm swing. The biggest flaw in your technical movements is the arm swing. This can also be said to be a common problem in your entire Chinese track and field track and field sprint events." Coach Hart said with a positive look.

"Wand swing? There is no error in the amplitude of my arm swing and the coordination with the body movements? It runs very smoothly." Li Tian did not expect the coach to question his arm swing.

"Yes, although your arm swing movements are very good, and it also adjusts the coordination of body running well, arm swing not only coordinates body balance, but also provides the athletes with forward motivation during swinging. There is an extremely important element in your arm swinging technique, which is strength. In Chinese sprinting events, whether coaches or athletes, they ignore the training of upper limb strength, but instead emphasizes the enhancement of lower limb muscle strength. This situation is not only in track and field events, but also in basketball and football, which are more intensely confronting events. Think about it, when Yao Ming first entered the NBA, his upper limb strength was only half of that of some excellent players, which made him begin in the NBA.

After suffering all the hardships, Chinese players are often at a disadvantage in the confrontation with European and American players. The big reason for this is the inconsistency between upper and lower limbs. The lack of upper limb strength has become a shackle that restricts the further development of Chinese sports as a whole. Look at the world-class sprinters today, not only have extremely developed lower limb strength, but also have very strong upper limbs. This is because they require more strength when doing arm swinging movements. Although you are also taking into account the middle and long-distance running events, being too strong will have an impact on other events, strengthening upper limb strength is an urgent task for you now. In this regard, we must leave Coach Karon to help you. He is an expert in strength training." Coach Hart's analysis left Li Tian with nothing to say, just nodding silently.

"It's okay. Cologne Sports Academy has very advanced training equipment here. I will increase your muscle strength by more than 30% during this period, and it will not make your upper limbs too strong, which will affect your performance in mid- and long-distance running events." Coach Karon assured confidently.

"Of course, the shortcomings I see in you are far more than these. What I just mentioned to you are the most important aspects, and some other small parts, in our future training, will point them out and correct them one by one. They are all small problems that are easy to correct." Coach Hart looked relaxed when he spoke, but Li Tian couldn't feel at all.

"There are so many more! Coach Hart, please be more 'feeling'. If you continue to say it, I will be completely lost in confidence." Li Tian is now full of frustration. In the last competition, his scores made him feel a little complacent. It is natural for him to achieve such impressive results at a young age. However, just as he had just become a world-class player with confidence, he was just as confident as a world-class player.
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