Chapter 013: Weightlifting + Standing Meditation = Efficient Attribute Improvement?
After dinner, I made a pot of ginseng tea.
Chen Jue did not go to the reservoir dam to practice again, because he had just recovered from a serious illness and it was best not to blow the cool night breeze from the mountains.
The ancients had a saying that "when wind evil enters the body, all kinds of diseases will breed". Although Chen Jue only understood the basics of it, he was cured of his physical condition by a combination of donkey-hide gelatin, ginseng and old duck soup.
He became more and more convinced of this theory of traditional Chinese medicine, which was equivalent to his own personal experience.
Since both dietary and medicinal supplements were effective, Chen Jue must believe in the existence of such a thing as wind evil.
Instead of going to the reservoir to practice, Chen Jue closed the door and started doing rehabilitation exercises at home.
There are five sets of the new dumbbells, ranging from 2.5kg to 20kg, with a total of five weights. They are all a pair of stainless steel. The seller also gave away a pair of anti-wear sports gloves.
After changing into sportswear, installing the dumbbells, horizontal bar and sit-up machine, Chen Jue started exercising.
His strength attribute was 1 point lower than the normal adult male standard. In addition, he was obese, so he felt out of breath after doing a few sets of fitness exercises.
"Lifting weights consumes more energy than practicing martial arts!"
After practicing a few sets of movements, Chen Jue almost understood the principles behind it.
If the attribute panel can accelerate the growth of the exercises and compress the time of training, then weightlifting is all about quickly squeezing out physical strength in exchange for muscle growth, bone strengthening, and cardiopulmonary function improvement, while also exercising willpower.
Although the ancient boxing style like boat fist has a long history, it was created by ancient people after all and has certain limitations. Its effect on muscle training is naturally not as good as this modern fitness that focuses on a few points.
Sure enough, after lifting weights for half an hour, Chen Jue's strength and agility attributes increased by 0.01 each. At this rate, if he persists in practicing for a few days, Chen Jue's two attributes will be able to recover to above the standard of 1 point for an adult male.
What did not surprise Chen Jue was that, although strength and agility increased a little, the physical attribute showed a downward trend, regressing from 1.32 to 1.31.
In addition, the health index also dropped from 89% to 85%, which can be said to be completely in line with Chen Jue’s previous conjecture.
"Relying on squeezing physical fitness and health in exchange for the increase of strength and agility, this should be considered as the evil skills in martial arts novels, right?" Chen Jue couldn't help but laugh at himself.
In fact, what Chen Jue didn't know was that he was doing this because of overtraining. If an ordinary person who hadn't exercised for a long time did this, he might even have muscle dissolution and hematuria. It was also because he hadn't opened his eyes yet and had a misunderstanding about fitness.
Scientific fitness can actually provide better training effects than the lost martial arts.
Fortunately, he also has a way to solve the problem of physical decline!
After increasing his strength and agility by 0.02 by lifting weights, Chen Jue drank a pot of ginseng tea and started to practice the Eight Immortals Posture on a solid wooden square table.
Soon, the physical fitness that had decreased by 0.02 began to slowly recover through the practice of standing meditation!
Even the health index continued to increase by 1% until it returned to 89%.
This drinking and eating gave Chen Jue a very strange idea: "Lifting weights + standing meditation = high efficiency improvement of strength and agility attributes."
Moreover, he does not shy away from the decline in his physical fitness and health index, and can accelerate the accumulation of free attributes, as if a kind of closed loop has been formed in him!
The most important thing is that few of the bodybuilders in the video can practice standing meditation like Chen Jue. Even if there are, they probably can't see the fluctuations of the attribute panel as intuitively as Chen Jue.
In this way, Chen Jue became more confident in his scientific method of practicing martial arts + lifting weights. With the external and internal training mentioned by the forum masters, it is likely that within a few days, all of his attributes will be raised to above the standard of "1"!
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I started practicing at 7 o'clock after dinner and stopped at 9:30.
Chen Jue took an exhausted hot shower, then lay down on the bed on the second floor, smelling the pleasant sunshine-filled scent of the newly dried bedding. He then watched some videos and browsed his circle of friends for a while, and when it was 10 o'clock, he turned off the lights and fell into a deep sleep.
As for his various attributes, they have come to the following situation:
Name: Chen Jue
Age: 27
Health index: 88%
Strength: 0.95
Agility: 0.87
Intelligence: 1.22
Constitution: 1.32
Skills: [Ship Fist Lv1 (69/200)] [Twelve Forms of Yi Jin Jing Lv0 (8/100)] [Eight Immortals Posture Lv1 (27/200)]
Allocable free attribute points: 0.05
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The next day, at dawn, Chen Jue woke up again.
I slept one hour longer than usual last night and felt a lot more comfortable than usual. This may have a lot to do with the medicine and food I took yesterday.
After getting up and washing up, I felt refreshed. The physical deficiency has completely disappeared. I feel full of energy and stronger than before!
After lifting weights, doing sit-ups, and pull-ups, the muscles in my limbs, abdomen, and back all felt sore to varying degrees.
The pain is much more severe than that from practicing boat punch.
However, the strength and agility on the attribute panel did increase a lot, which made Chen Jue determined to continue training.
However, he did not exercise blindly, but planned to make a schedule for himself.
When he was in Hangzhou before, Chen Jue was a workaholic and had a lot of plans. Otherwise, he wouldn't have gotten a small supervisor position and earned over ten thousand yuan a month.
He opened the Planning App on his phone, typed a few things, and set a few time reminders. Then Chen Jue started to tie up sandbags to carry the weight and jogged towards the reservoir on the back mountain.
These sandbag weights were also delivered by express yesterday, one set for leg binding and one set for hand binding. The maximum weight of each sandbag can be adjusted to 5 kilograms and can be disassembled, which is very convenient.
Since he had just tried weight-bearing exercise, Chen Jue did not dare to add more. Instead, he tied a 1-jin sandbag on his hands and feet, one on each limb , which was equivalent to increasing the weight by 4 jin in one go.
As a result, jogging up the hill did become a lot more difficult.
Fortunately, Chen Jue's physique is not a vegetarian, and his strength attribute was improved yesterday, so he can still withstand the additional 4 kilograms of weight.
It took more than 10 minutes of jogging to the reservoir dam. After removing the sandbags, Chen Jue began to practice boat fist and Eight Immortals Posture.
He set himself a daily exercise plan, which was to go to the reservoir early in the morning to practice boxing and standing meditation for two hours, and then rush to Linjia Village to have breakfast.
After breakfast, if you have no other plans, go home to rest and restore your strength, and use the rest of the morning to practice the twelve movements of the Yi Jin Jing.
After lunch, take a nap for 1.5 hours.
This is the optimal nap length as stated on the Internet. If you exceed it, you will feel more tired the more you sleep. Chen Jue firmly believes this because he used to have an irregular schedule and would often sleep for an afternoon on weekends when he was not working. As a result, he felt more tired than when he was at work.
After taking a nap, I woke up in the afternoon and continued to practice the Eight Immortals Posture on the solid wood square table, and then exercised with fitness equipment to brush up various attributes.
Start cooking at 5:30 p.m., finish eating at 6 p.m., digest for an hour, then repeat the afternoon practice after 7 p.m., finish at 9:30 p.m. and take a shower, then go to bed on time before 10:30 p.m.
The plan is very comprehensive, and there is room for flexibility in some areas occasionally . As long as there is no external interference, Chen Jue plans to carry out this training plan for a period of time to see how effective it is.
