When Su Bai said the first sentence, everyone was still moved, and they were also motivated to work hard and live up to their talents. But after Su Bai said the next sentence, the moved look in everyone's eyes turned into: Who am I, where am I, why should I stay and watch the coach's excitement?
All the people present, one by one, were unable to control the speed change within 0.25 seconds during the pyramid speed training. Especially when running the last two laps, many people's times would exceed the 1-second fluctuation range.
But just now, after they watched the "demonstration" of their coach, Su Bai praised them for their "talents that are envied by so many people", and then dropped this bomb.
Just like Su Bai said, he, a coach who retired due to lack of talent, controlled the speed change within 0.25. They are the top athletes in the country, so is it not possible?
In short, everyone went over Su Bai's words in their minds, but no one dared to utter the three words "can't do it" out loud.
Su Bai smiled and patted Qiu Wen and Zhang Ziyi on the shoulders, then turned and went to the locker room to change back into his regular clothes. Behind him, a group of national team players looked at each other in bewilderment.
The production crew present watched the entire process of the track and field team members being "humiliated". Su Bai's follower director didn't understand until this moment. He always thought that Coach Su Bai was very easy to talk to, although he seemed a bit cruel in training... but it turned out that he was cut open and black?
Guo Dun turned around and watched Su Bai heading to the locker room, then turned around and quietly asked Qiu Wen: "Xiao Qiu, didn't you say that our coach retired because of his poor performance???"
Qiu Wen immediately shook his head frantically: "What do you mean I said that! I never said that to Xiaobai from beginning to end!" After a pause, Qiu Wen continued: "...You can see for yourself, Xiaobai himself just said that he doesn't have good talent..."
Guo Dun's face was filled with the word "pain in the balls". He looked at the entrance of the locker room with melancholy and said, "...Without talent, how can Pyramid run to 27 seconds and change the amplitude by 0.25? To be honest, I think our coach's ability to control the speed and rhythm is simply a monster. Did you notice that when the timer sounded just now, our coach's position did not change more than one step..."
Zhang Ziyi also had a look of awe on his face: "The coach's speed and rhythm control, as well as his allocation of physical energy throughout the pyramid training, are all things we need to learn well!"
Lin Chuan nodded. Zhang Ziyi was right, but...
"Come to think of it, does the coach have time to train normally? He spends all his time on us... How can he still have such speed control ability?"
The human body's forgetfulness is no joke, and their daily training and adjustments are all to better adapt to the new training rhythm and techniques, so that the body can remember new habits as quickly as possible.
If it were them, as long as their training stagnated for a period of time, it would certainly be no problem for them to run 200 meters in less than 27 seconds. However, it would be almost a dream to want to control the speed of 200 meters in 27 seconds to such a steady level as their coach.
When everyone heard Lin Chuan's question, it was actually the same question in their hearts, but no one could answer it for them... This unknown answer immediately gave Su Bai a mysterious aura.
Anyway, even though they don’t know what’s going on, it’s true that Coach Xiaobai is awesome!
In the locker room, Su Bai changed his clothes, did some simple stretching, and then laughed to himself.
It should be said that he did not expect that the Track and Field Center would actually launch the Pyramid Challenge event, but as he told his teammates, his talent for absolute speed in sprint events was not very good, but if it was just about speed control ability, his talent was actually surprisingly good.
These were also gradually discovered after he obtained the system.
However, the event he originally practiced was the 100-meter sprint. Although the 100-meter race also requires rhythm, it requires more powerful explosive power, strength and speed, as well as the ability to maintain high absolute speed.
His talent in these events is average, so what he just said to his teammates was indeed sincere. Instead of training himself and barely improving his results from 10.88 to 10.30, it does not make any sense for domestic sprint events.
In that case, at most he would go from being an athlete who barely made it to the national first-class level to a player who was in the top ten in the domestic 100-meter performance.
After he became a coach, he only needed to be able to help players like Fang Yu improve their performance by even 0.01 seconds, which would be much more meaningful than improving his own performance by 0.5 seconds.
As for why he was able to achieve such results in the Pyramid Challenge, it was of course due to the practice in the systematic idol training space.
As a coach, although what he needs to do in most cases is just theoretical guidance, he will also personally try out most of the training methods in the system space.
The simulated athletes in the system provide him with a reasonably predictable trajectory of change after applying the corresponding training techniques, and his own attempts at training can obtain another relatively "emotional" verification in the process of training.
During the system training course, his approach was unexpectedly recognized by the system coach.
In a sense, the training maintained in the system also continues his dream of being an athlete.
In short, no matter what, Su Bai's "Pyramid Challenge" video has been recorded, and on the second day, the national team players also nervously recorded their own pyramid speed training videos. The humble thing is that among the 15 players, Zhang Ziyi, who had the best control of speed change, had a speed change of 0.36 after running 5 200-meter runs, which was far from the 0.25 standard set by Su Bai the day before.
After looking at everyone's results, Su Bai didn't say anything, just smiled slightly. But under his glance, everyone on the track and field team could only hold their heads high, chests out, and tighten their skin, not daring to say anything to beg for mercy.
This scene was recorded in the camera lens of the program crew, so that after the track and field team's "Pyramid Challenge Launch Video Highlights" was broadcast, people on the Internet were cheering for the handsomeness of the track and field team members one second, and then burst into laughter at the cowardly people in the high-profile footage the next second.
After the release of the 'Pyramid Challenge Video' led by Su Bai, just as the program team expected, it set off a wave of challenge climax on the Internet.
Compared with other challenges that have been popular on the Internet, the preparation process for this "pyramid challenge" is much more troublesome, but there are indeed many enthusiastic people on the Internet.
In addition to the bloggers who have already posted imitation videos, with the participation of various stars and celebrities invited by the program team, more and more people have tried to come to sports stadiums in various places to apply for the 200-meter pyramid challenge attempt and recording. For a while, this "pyramid challenge" became as popular on the Internet as the program "Track and Field Idol Training Camp".
There are also some netizens who did not go to professional sports stadiums to perform the challenge, but instead performed a simple version of the challenge at home or in other simple venues. Some even performed the challenge wearing Pharaoh cosplay costumes, etc.
It can be said that within just a few days, starting from the first episode of "Track and Field Idol Training Camp", topics related to track and field, the national team, athletes, Su Bai and others have never left the hot search list. Even news such as "multiple brand manufacturers are fighting each other in an attempt to compete for sponsorship places for "Track and Field Idol Training Camp"" can attract a lot of attention on the Internet.
It seems that after the appearance of this variety show, the audience is eager to make up for the lack of attention to track and field events and athletes in the past. In short, during this period of time, any topic related to the national track and field team will definitely attract enough attention. Even in the homes of netizens, when mothers and aunts get together to chat, they will talk about these players of the national team from time to time.
No one had expected the show to become this popular.
Athletics Kingdom Forum
During this period, track and field enthusiasts felt as if they had suddenly transformed from niche enthusiasts to mainstream enthusiasts, which was indeed something they had never imagined.
However, after the show became popular for a few days, these track and field enthusiasts calmed down first.
Topic: [The popularity brought about by variety shows is still somewhat false. I hope everyone can realize this. At all times, the training, strength, and performance of athletes are the top priority. I also hope that the Track and Field Administration Center will be moderate in its publicity and promotion projects, and not lose sight of the big picture. 】
The appearance of this post has aroused a lot of recognition in the track and field kingdom, but some forum users also feel that the Athletics Administration Center and the national team are very calm, just like they sternly rebuked some fan circle behaviors before. The national team is still a team immersed in training, so everyone does not need to worry too much.
This statement was further confirmed after the second episode of "Training Camp" was broadcast.
Although the tone of this episode of "Track and Field Idol Training Camp" is the same as the previous episode, contestants such as Lin Chuan, Zhou Xu, and Lin Yao all encountered their own training bottlenecks during the recording of the second episode.
Lin Chuan is not young anymore, and his talent for absolute speed is not very high. After Qiu Wen started training for the 400-meter relay, Lin Chuan's position suddenly became precarious.
Originally, in the previous competition, Zhang Ziyi, Lin Chuan, Guo Dun and Li Junhao were the main members of the relay team, but with the addition of Qiu Wen, his speed performance would inevitably squeeze out one of them between Lin Chuan and Guo Dun.
At present, Guo Dun has an advantage over Lin Chuan in terms of PB and age. In addition to Lin Chuan, among the players who were called to the national team for training during the winter training, Zhang Wei and Hu Li are also improving very quickly...
All this made Lin Chuan feel stressed.
Lin Chuan has a strong ability to control rhythm. As a senior player, he is also relatively steady and calm in competition experience. However, even so, it cannot cover up the problem of his weak speed ability and slow progress in performance.
During this period, although he had been conducting absolute speed improvement training under Su Bai's arrangement, his performance improvement did encounter a bottleneck. Even though Su Bai discovered his pressure and had a long talk with him, and directly contacted the team's psychological counselor to help Lin Chuan relieve his pressure, all this could not conceal the reality he needed to face at the moment.
The second episode of "Athletics Idol Training Camp" showed more of the ordinary people's nature behind the contestants' "hero" images.
They will feel stressed and their state will be affected after being stressed, but even in this stressful environment, they can still adjust themselves as calmly as possible.
In the program, the original funny and amusing card-drawing segments are still going on, and Qiu Wen's daily embarrassment is still full of laughter. But at the same time, the training difficulties faced by Lin Chuan, Zhou Xu, Lin Yao and others, and Wang Shen and Fang Yu who occasionally appear on camera, find Su Bai during training breaks or simply late at night after training, and ask Su Bai to discuss the troubles they are facing with them alone.
In the first episode, the athletes’ hard work and sweat, as well as their laughter and playfulness like ordinary people, are still present here, but the pressure they face, which is completely different from that of ordinary people, is also suddenly highlighted.
——It’s already mid-to-late January, winter training is about to end, and the new season is about to begin.
——In the National Track and Field Indoor Championships, except for some team members, the rest will return to their provincial teams and start from the indoor competition to test their winter training results.
——Some stronger athletes will face new tasks and participate in the World Athletics Indoor Tour, adapt to the international arena in advance, and compete with international opponents who have also completed winter training.
The places for the Asian Championships have been allocated to the coaches, who will select the athletes to participate in the Asian Championships. This is a large-scale training before this year's World Athletics Championships and an important competition at the beginning of the 19th outdoor season.
This year's Asian Championships and World Championships are both held in Qatar. For athletes who have already qualified for the World Championships, this competition can allow them to experience the competition environment in advance. For athletes who have not qualified, they can also take this opportunity to show their training results during the winter training and strive to win the qualification for the World Championships in one fell swoop...
There is also the World Athletics Relays to be held in May, which will determine the Olympic qualification of the 4*400 relay team. Both the men's and women's teams want to be able to enter the Olympics...even if it's just to go to the Olympic site to see it for yourself?
Compared to the first episode, the second episode contained much more information, and the contestants who seemed carefree in the first episode also suffered some setbacks to varying degrees.
The production crew did not make any sensational editing for these setbacks, and everything seemed to be natural. But because of this, the pressure, which seemed nothing at first glance but was frightening when one came to their senses and understood it, is more memorable.
【No one is born a hero】
[Behind those tall figures of heroes are people just like us]
When the program production team released these two lines of text, the audience, who were originally just watching the variety show with a smile, couldn't help but well up in tears.
In the anonymous gossip section, in the discussion forum for the second episode of "Athletics Idol Training Camp", the originally cheerful atmosphere suddenly became solemn.
672l: [q_q I hate it. Why is this show so tear-jerking? It was the same in the last episode. I was laughing happily at first, but suddenly after just two sentences, tears started streaming down my cheeks...]
676l: [This is so tear-jerking +1. I get it. Although the program crew calls it "track and field idols," what they're actually conveying is that athletes are ordinary people just like us...it's just that the pressure they have to face is something we don't normally encounter. 】
682l: [I just saw a detail. Lin Chuan, Guo Dun, and Zhang Wei were discussing their respective ages. Among these players, Lin Chuan is the oldest. Although he is very calm, he is under a lot of pressure... After all, the possibility of being replaced is the greatest...]
686l: […Alas, Lin Chuan said that he wanted to fight with the relay team in the Asian Championships and the World Championships… He also wanted to try to challenge the World Athletics Relays with everyone, and he also wanted to see if he had the opportunity to enter the Olympic Games. 】
691l: [Damn, this is too difficult. Why is the world of athletes so cruel? I like every one of these 15 athletes in the winter training camp, but for competitions like the Asian Championships, World Championships, and relays, the number of participants in each competition is limited, and only a limited number of athletes can participate in the last event... No matter how hard the remaining athletes train, if they can't compare in the end, they won't even have the chance to participate. 】
700l: [It's really too cruel, I can't bear to watch it... but I can't bear to not watch it. We can't bear to watch so many contestants when we watch a variety show. We want to make the 15 bowls equal when we see their votes, but in their real life environment, they can only rely on their own strength to fight forward. Every road has only a narrow path, and only a few people can walk on this path based on their own strength... Really, after watching this variety show, I can feel the cruelty of competitive sports. 】
706l: [Feeling the cruelty of competitive sports +1, I can’t stop crying now, it’s so disgusting! ! ! Usually, those talent shows, the elimination system, are all said to be cruel, but even if they are fake, we still have a voting channel, at least we can support our own contestants, but this variety show... at most we can only cast one vote, shoot some advertisements for them, and make a little money, but we are completely powerless to their real "talent show"...】
710l: […If we can get all the players a spot in the competition by spending real money to vote, then I will definitely spend a lot of money! ! ! But this is impossible...qaq】
The players’ plight, the low training status, the inconsistent results, the low training mentality…
The show "Athletics Idol Training Camp" makes the variety show have the flavor of a documentary, but it still adheres to the variety show route. There are some light-hearted clips from time to time, such as "the team members tried to laugh at the coach but were retaliated by the black-hearted coach", which can make the audience laugh. Qiu Wen and Wang Shen, who occasionally comes to visit, will occasionally perform "crosstalk", and the "funny man" Qiu Wen is responsible for making everyone laugh.
After the entire variety show was broadcast, it can be said that everyone laughed and cried, and they gained a better understanding of these athletes.
At the end of the program, the production team directly cueed the previous proxy photography incident, and the athletes also said very directly that apart from training, our lives are actually very boring, and there is no need for everyone to pay attention to our lives. If possible, I hope everyone can come to the stadium to cheer us on!
After watching this episode and feeling the pressure and difficulties faced by the contestants, most of the audience completely agreed with the contestants' request - look, their daily training is already so hard, so please don't disturb the contestants' spare time so that they can have some space to breathe and rest.
When this episode was about to end, the production team suddenly released a separate preview - when the total votes of all contestants reached 3 million, the first guest Cui Luoheng's individual training extra will be unlocked. At the same time, the guests' votes will eventually help some contestants compete for the 'top 5' seats!
Huh?
Top 5 seats?
Oh yes!
During this period of time, everyone has been working hard to get all the contestants to unlock the hook advertisement, but have they forgotten that there is still competition among the contestants for the top 5?
Oops, that's not good. Recently, because everyone has been trying hard to keep a balance, the vote gap between the contestants has narrowed significantly.
How could their kid/brother/husband/sister/wife lose? !
It was just such a simple preview that caused the smoke of war that had originally subsided to suddenly reignite!
Of course, those who follow the variety show "Athletics Idol Training Camp" are not just audiences, but industry insiders are also watching this show.
They originally thought that the popularity of the first season of "Track and Field Idol Training Camp" was already high enough, and that there were already a lot of topics and content discussed in the first season. If the second season still had the same content as the first season, perhaps the popularity of the show would gradually decline.
As a result, the program content of the second episode, which was almost straightforward, turned from the initial "freshness" to the "heartfelt" and texture of a documentary.
Treat variety shows as documentaries...
This idea and feasibility have never been attempted before in the industry, but the production team of the fancy-named "Athletics Idol Training Camp" actually dared to do it, and... it was obviously successful.
Unbelievable.
People in the industry looked at the "Athletics Idol Training Camp" team and expressed admiration in their hearts.
After this battle, this team has become completely famous. They have successfully cultivated a group of new audiences, and this variety show and this group of audiences are likely to become long-term fans of this show.
Industry insiders can see that after this year, this program should become the 'fixed group variety show' for the track and field team's winter training every year. As long as the track and field team can maintain its current level of strength under Su Bai's coaching, and as long as these top athletes on the track and field team still maintain this pure heart, then this variety show will most likely continue to be popular from now on.
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