Zhang Yang, a fitness coach for Crazy Penguins under Savage Sports, is usually very busy, taking 60 classes in August. What kind of exercise is this, and it is estimated that it is to take two classes a day and go to class non-stop. "Catching up with big exercise classes such as fighting and rope, at the end of the day, I feel like I can't eat my whole being." Zhang Yang said. There is no way, as a kind of fashion fitness that specializes in group classes, after the crazy penguin landed in the provincial capital, because of the flexible class and warm atmosphere, it became the new favorite of young people's fitness for a while. The pace of urban life is accelerating, and after work, people are more and more willing to spend time in the gym, sweating and sculpting their own body lines. Compared with other sports that can be self-practiced after getting started, fitness requires more professional guidance and regulates every movement. What is the true meaning of fitness? This is one of the reasons why I interviewed Coach Zhang Yang.
Origins: A gym-style answer
Battle rope training
In this issue, I once set up a small questionnaire: acquiring a sports skill may not be a thing for talented people at all, but for most ordinary people, how does the coach teach it? Table tennis coach Zhang Chunxin's answer is that by quantifying the goal, running coach Bian Decheng mentioned that the step-by-step principle is very important. For training more detail-oriented fitness, what is Zhang Yang's trick? On an autumn afternoon, I threw this question to Zhang Yang after 85. To my slight surprise, Zhang Yang, who sweats to the music every day, opens his lesson plan. He was clearly prepared, or rather he gave a standard gym-style answer.
People who often go to the gym know that the gym is a particularly polite place, a place with significant social attributes - everyone is not only sweating there, but also some conventional things, such as remembering to return home after using the equipment, such as wearing clean and odorless tights every time you enter the gym, such as not making strange noises during fitness, so as not to affect other people. In view of this, Zhang Yang believes that many people have just entered the gym, they have a sense of fear of the environment, they can't let go when doing the action, as a fitness coach, they must first eliminate their sense of fear and let them move first, which is very important; secondly, as a coach, there is an obligation to let the trainees do a better job, and there is room for technical improvement; third, encourage them from the spiritual level, every drop of sweat will not be disappointed, pay has a return, everyone enters the gym is this feeling, the pursuit is this feeling.
Well, every drop of sweat will not fail. As long as you have a passion for fitness, you can go into the gym and sweat like rain, facing yourself that is really changing.
Dialogue: "You can only hold on when you are hard"
Fighting class
Zhang Yang's weekly class schedule is very dense, 15 lessons per week, sometimes 3 to 4 lessons a day, each lesson is one hour long. Sometimes I overexerted, I come home with pain in my arms and legs, and I can't sleep at night. But the classes that are scheduled can't be pushed off by themselves, Zhang Yang said, "Sometimes I can only hold on for a while." ”
Looking at the class schedule in Zhang Yang's hand, the course is divided into trampoline, fighting, waist and abdomen core, dance, trx, battle rope, aerial yoga and so on. Zhang Yang made a special interpretation of the course: "Unlike the previous gym, penguins do not need to get an annual pass, and everyone can make an appointment at any time. Anyone who has experience in the gym knows that after you enter the gym, look at the various equipment, touch and touch, the time passes quickly. Even if you follow a private coach, it is very expensive on the one hand, and after following for a long time, people are easy to get bored. Each lesson here is led by a professional coach, and what is practiced within an hour is what is practiced, and the efficiency is particularly high. Therefore, it is especially sought after by young people. ”
Weekend: Can you interpret trx?
Zhang Yang: trx is an English abbreviation for full-body resistance training. If you draw a pyramid, the trx that tempers the posture of the body is the base of the tower, dance, fighting, waist and abdomen core, aerial yoga, and then upwards, the spire is the most aerobic activity of the war rope. Therefore, we generally recommend that you start with the trx project and finally hit the battle rope. Compared with other projects, the battle rope is more difficult, it is mainly to practice the core and upper limb strength, which is particularly beneficial to the deltoid muscles, pectoralis major muscles, and latissimus dorsi muscles. Imagine you standing there, to the music, constantly waving the rope in your hand, and the rope kept shaking and hitting you. Many trainees who have just come into contact with the battle rope project cannot stand at first, and this is too high for the core requirements.
"Weekend": There are so many projects, how to pick the music during the workout?
Zhang Yang: Some projects are preset modes, music is fixed, like trampolines and fighting, everyone just needs to step on that point to practice. Most of the projects are self-created models, which requires us coaches to find music ourselves. And one class after another, you always use a song, everyone is easy to get bored. Therefore, after class, I will listen to a lot of songs and select matching songs for the next lesson. For an hour of class, if I pick a song, I usually divide it into three pieces, put some songs that are slowly looking for a state when warming up, put some rhythmic rock music when the most hilarious, stretch links, and choose some soothing love songs.
"Weekend": You are a group class, each coach teaches a different style, will this affect everyone to learn the movements?
Zhang Yang: Yes, every coach has his own style, and the students who come to the gym will choose the coach according to their own feelings. Some coaches have strong teaching ability, some coaches interact well, and some coaches are born with star fans, which will attract many people to exercise. Take me for example, I think that doing a good job is the most important thing, the style does not need to be particularly deliberately pursued, and it is best to go with the flow.
Tribute: The ultimate meaning of fitness is the pursuit of a good-looking posture
training
Talking about the true meaning of fitness, Zhang Yang said that traditional fitness is to constantly break through yourself and step out of your comfort zone. However, nowadays people also have some changes in their understanding of fitness, I think there are three points: first, people pursue a better posture through fitness, I understand that this is also the ultimate meaning of fitness, like when we teach classes, remind students to straighten their chests, tighten the core, improve sports performance, over time, people will have a good posture; secondly, health needs, with the improvement of people's living standards, everyone has the need to lose weight; third, fitness has become a lot of people's life philosophy, is part of their lives, They like this professional feeling of fitness masters, for example, such as fighting, some students fall in love, on the one hand, the fat loss effect is good, on the other hand, he plays very slippery, boo-boo, do not shrug, to send shoulders, shoulder relaxation, waist and abdomen power, play is inertia, hit is the explosive force.
Speaking of anecdotes in fitness, Zhang Yang said: "My name is always mispronounced, and everyone calls me Intestinal Brother. The earliest is to send couriers, they take a piece to our company downstairs, the first sentence on the phone is open intestines in it? Later colleagues also joked, intestinal brother gut brother. Fitness is very relaxing and fun, and sometimes I adjust the atmosphere in class. Of course, yang means that the sun rises. ”
Zhang Yang's signature file is: dream of traveling around the world, obsessed with the stars and the sea. A casual, laid-back fitness trainer. Let's pay tribute to Intestinal Brother! No, it should be a tribute to Yang Ge!
(Yanzhao Metropolis Daily reporter Li Qiang Picture provided by Coach Zhang Yang)