Love Guide for Childhood Sweethearts

"Yes! Menstruation is really a fatal blow to female athletes. Especially in water and ice sports, if you want to achieve good results, you can't rest during the nearly one-week menstrual period." Zhu Youlin said, looking at them with her deep and bottomless eyes.

"Do we have to go into the water even when we have our period?" Lin Jingzhe looked at them worriedly with innocent eyes.

"Yes." Ye Zhenzhen nodded.

"In high-level competition, even three days of rest will significantly reduce your performance. Going into the water without a break means you might suffer from uterine cold and dysmenorrhea," Zhu Youlin said, looking at them helplessly. "Anyone in our industry will experience varying degrees of dysmenorrhea; it's unavoidable."

"I heard there's medicine." Ye Zhenzhen looked directly at Coach Zhu with her fox eyes and said, "It can regulate menstruation."

"Yes!" Zhu Youlin said, looking at them with her deep, penetrating eyes. "In order to avoid the competition time coinciding with my period, I took medicine long in advance to adjust the time." She took a deep breath and said helplessly, "I took it too. I still can't forget the look of heartache in the team doctor's eyes when she gave me the medicine. I can't forget her words: Don't take this medicine for too long, the side effects are harmful to the body."

"It can't be helped. The hard work is worth it if we can achieve something." Ye Zhenzhen looked at her firmly with her fox eyes and said, "This isn't just something we have to deal with. We'll all encounter this."

Zhu Youlin sighed softly and looked at them with compassion, saying, "Being a woman is a bit troublesome."

"I'm not afraid of hard work, I'm not afraid of blood and sweat, I'm just afraid of unsatisfactory results." Lian Ximei said sadly.

There was silence at the table, and I was most afraid of the sudden silence in the air.

Lin Jingzhe broke the suffocating atmosphere and asked, "What about the other way?"

"The other path is the path most girls take. They gain weight, lose flexibility, become bulkier, and develop fat in the vital areas below the chest. To the average person, this appears normal," Zhu Youlin continued slowly. "You might just notice slight changes in your breasts and hips," she blinked. "Look in the mirror and see if you have the so-called figure-eight curves, even if they're only slight. These concave and convex sexual characteristics can't exist before puberty. But they can be fatal in many competitive sports. Especially for women like us, although our appearance changes after puberty, our strength and endurance don't change significantly, and we might even notice a significant decline. In these cases, coaches will generally advise you to give up sports, as there's virtually no chance of further improvement."

Lin Jingzhe quickly looked at her chest and buttocks, "It's okay, it's okay."

"I'm watching you!" Zhu Youlin looked at her with her gentle black eyes and said, "Don't blame me for being harsh! This is just reality. I'm not criticizing anyone, but the matter itself."

"I understand. You are doing this for our own good." Zina said solemnly.

"Without the bitter cold, how can the fragrance of plum blossoms be so strong?" Lian Ximei said, looking at her with her round eyes.

"Eat watermelon, watermelon." Lin Jingzhe pointed at the watermelon on the table and said, "After finishing training, eat it."

Lin Jingzhe and the others returned to the training hall, lay on the mat, took a half-hour nap, did some warm-up exercises, moved their bodies around, changed into one-piece swimsuits and went into the water for training.

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Standing by the swimming pool, Lin Jingzhe pursed her lips tightly, as if she had forgotten that she was a landlubber.

What should I do?

"Aren't you going into the water yet? Move around first, then go on to normal training." Zhu Youlin looked at her with bright eyes and said.

"I need to adapt after not swimming for a few days." Lin Jingzhe said cautiously, mainly because he was afraid of being exposed.

"Adapt?" Zhu Youlin looked at her amusedly and said, "Swimming is like breathing, it's become part of your blood."

Lin Jingzhe thought about it after hearing this. If it was integrated into the bones and blood, then wouldn't it also have muscle memory?

Anyway, she was by the swimming pool, so if there was any danger she could grab the edge in time.

The fearless Lin Jingzhe grabbed the edge of the swimming pool, slid into the water, and his body floated naturally.

Lin Jingzhe was extremely surprised. He recalled in his mind how the original owner swam, and slowly moved along the edge of the pool.

As expected, with muscle memory, the technical movements are very accurate.

At first, Lin Jingzhe was worried that he might actually fall into the water, but after swimming a few laps, he felt completely relaxed, like a fish swimming freely.

Swimming is good for your figure, but it really consumes physical energy and burns calories.

Zhu Youlin walked to the edge of the pool, squatted down, looked at her and said, "Looking at how cautious you are, I thought you were a beginner!"

Lin Jingzhe's eyes wandered as he laughed, "I'm not used to not touching water for a whole day."

"How do you feel now?" Zhu Youlin smiled and said, "I'm like a fish that can't leave the water."

"The sea is wide enough for fish to leap for." Lin Jingzhe said to her with a smile in his peach blossom eyes.

"I remember you've developed all four swimming styles in a balanced way," Zhu Youlin said, looking at her with gentle eyes. "Today, let's not do anything else but practice the technical movements of the four swimming styles."

"Okay!" Lin Jingzhe said, supporting himself on the edge of the swimming pool with his hands and looking up at her. He secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the intensity was not increased all at once. Now she had to get familiar with various swimming styles as soon as possible.

At first, Lin Jingzhe felt that his arms and legs were not his own. Only after he became proficient in them could he control them well.

Tired of swimming, Lin Jingzhe sat down by the pool to rest. He watched the others practicing desperately, like fish, and said, "You swim so fast!"

"Not fast, it's still far from the world-class level!" Zhu Youlin looked at her with her bright dark eyes and said, draping the towel over her body, "Don't catch a cold." She continued slowly, "After you finish swimming, let's watch the video and see how they perform at the world-class level."

"Watch the video?" Lin Jingzhe wrapped himself in a bath towel and looked at her.

"Watch how others swim, how they breathe, how they swing their feet, how they turn..." Zhu Youlin looked at her with bright eyes and said, "Then learn from them."

Lin Jingzhe raised his eyebrows and looked at her and said, "Theirs may not be suitable for us?"

"You'll have the right to say that only when you surpass them. For now, we can only study diligently like elementary school students," Zhu Youlin said seriously. "We need to improve our skills and strive to surpass them."

"Can't we ask them to teach us?" Lin Jingzhe asked her with his clear peach blossom eyes.

"Cough cough..." Zhu Youlin was so frightened that she started coughing when she heard that.

"What's wrong? What I said is irrelevant?" Lin Jingzhe asked her innocently with his amber eyes.

"We're just a provincial sports school, not a national team." Zhu Youlin looked at her kindly and said, "We don't have that much money to hire people. Besides, if we hire them back, are you sure they're sincere about teaching?"