Chapter 222: The First Bottleneck

"Good morning, how was your morning run today?"

Seeing Gawain from a distance, Grant took the initiative to greet him and asked about Gawain's training status with a smile on his face.

At this time, Gawain's breathing had been adjusted, and he jumped a few times lightly on the spot, "Very good, no particularly obvious feeling."

Grant looked me up and down and nodded in affirmation, "That's good. During the weight gain period, any fluctuations in your condition or body signals must be reported in time so that we can adjust the training content."

"Keep increasing the dosage?" Gao Wen asked half-jokingly.

Thompson's screams and howls were heard immediately. "God, Gawain, are you crazy? With such a high intensity of strength training, you still want to increase the intensity?"

Gao Wen spread his hands and said, "In order to become a strong man like you, I still need to work harder."

Thompson immediately nodded as a matter of course, "That's true." He then boasted about his muscles, making everyone burst into laughter.

During the summer training camp, everyone’s training direction and content are slightly different.

For Gao Wen, physical fitness is one aspect and strength is another.

Based on Martin's observations throughout the spring season, he believes that Gao Wen's current body shape is enough, even if he is a little thin. Movement speed and defensive feel have become Gao Wen's game style.

However, Martin suggested that Gao Wen gain about one kilogram in weight. The focus is not on the weight number, but on the muscle content. That is to say, while maintaining the current weight, he can reduce the body fat percentage through strength training to increase explosive power and resistance. In order to avoid the loss of weight due to the decrease in body fat percentage, it is necessary to update the diet and gain weight.

Compared with the winter training period, it is slightly different. Weight is secondary and strength is the primary priority.

In Martin's opinion, the increase in strength can bring about an increase in explosive power, which in turn will help Gao Wen get more support in forehand attack and serve, and enrich Gao Wen's game content.

It is for this reason that Grant follows up on Gawain's diet, condition, weight and other details every day, and then compiles them into a book to help Gawain improve and grow in a more systematic and safer way.

In sharp contrast, Gillon and McDonald, who are more accustomed to taking advantage of the opponent's force, have no need to gain weight. In their games, there are not many opportunities for active attack, and they can control the rhythm by grabbing points and taking advantage of the opponent's force, which is more suitable for their style.

Naturally, both Gillon and McDonald need to work on their footwork, as well as their muscle toughness and control of details.

In the morning, Gao Wen still focused on ball training.

First do serve training, then do forehand and backhand hitting training, interspersed with footwork training and ball feel training, and then do partner hitting training, with special targeted training on forehand training, backhand training, power hitting training, landing point control training, etc.

Throw yourself into training and sweat, and the passage of time will be quietly forgotten.

But for Thompson, this is a torture.

Training with the training devil Gawain is painful every minute. Now Thompson feels the same as Kerbert and Hanfman. When playing against Gawain, even in daily training, he feels uncomfortable all over: he pats his racket and exerts force, but Gawain's return shots are always varied, even if it is the same "forehand VS forehand", Gawain can always create an advantage in the powerful collision of strength and strength. The good times when Thompson used strength to easily suppress Gawain are gone forever.

Then, as I was exerting more and more force, my hands slowly began to feel weak.

I feel like crying but I have no tears!

"…Marcos, you go ahead, you go ahead!"

Thompson looked like he had just been fished out of the water, sweating and frustrated. He just wanted to go home to his mother. Seeing Jilong's eyes shining, he quickly applied to exchange partners.

Jilong readily agreed.

Since the U.S. singles final, Jillong has particularly liked playing against Gawain and cherishes every opportunity for a practice match. It is not to defeat Gawain, but to enjoy every time of competing with Gawain. The two of them always hit the ball to the best of their ability and can always inspire each other to be in the best condition.

In Thompson's words, "Marcos must be a bit of a masochist, and the two of them are a perfect match, one is an S, and the other is an M." This blatant joke made McDonald look at Thompson with a look of surprise on his face.

Looking at Gawain who was sweating profusely on the court, and Jillong who was full of fighting spirit but had more losses than wins, Grant turned to look at Martin and said half jokingly and half in surprise.

"Why do I feel like Gawain is even crazier than he was during winter training?"

During the winter training, Gao Wen was just a noteworthy freshman who went all out in training to prove himself, but now as an American champion, Gao Wen still remains true to his original intention and devotes 200% of his focus and energy to training, which is truly amazing.

Martin smiled as well.

“It’s not an illusion, it’s a fact.”

"Some players become complacent and even slack off after winning a championship, but Gao Wen is obviously not one of them. He knows his goal and he also knows how to work hard to achieve it."

Martin nudged Grant with his elbow and spoke in a low voice.

"If I say that Gao Wen's goal in going to the US Open is not to compete but to win, would you believe it?"

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An NCAA player, a player who has never stepped into a professional arena, a player with no world ranking, wants to win a Grand Slam? I'm afraid it's a fantasy, a wishful thinking. Even if it's just winning one game, it's impossible.

But Grant thought about it carefully and nodded, "I believe it."

Then neither of them spoke, and their eyes turned back to the court:

While moving in a series of small steps, Gawain flicked his wrist and hit a forehand shot with a super wide outside angle. Jilong was already waiting in position, but he was still powerless and watched the tennis ball fly towards the audience stands after it fell to the ground, with helplessness on his face.

But after Gao Wen finished hitting the ball, he tilted his head, as if he was not very satisfied with his own hitting.

Still not satisfied with this? Martin:??? Grant:???

So scary!

If Gawain knew what Martin and Grant were thinking, he would definitely wave his hands in denial. He was not dissatisfied with his own batting, but with the lack of any growth potential.

Yes, the system's growth potential has been dormant for a long, long time.

The last time points were added was in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Championship, and then the growth potential values ​​were all reset to zero. After that, the growth potential continued to accumulate, but after accumulating to 99.99%, it stopped growing.

99.99%.

The growth potential value has remained at this state for a while, and since entering the summer special training, Gao Wen has really noticed the unchanged value for the first time, so, is this the bottleneck? 　The third update.

(End of this chapter)