At this mont, the number of push-ups Wang Ye had done reached one hundred and eight.
His chest muscles were extrely sore, and his arms started to tremble. He mustered the last bit of strength to do two more push-ups, rounding the number to a neat whole.
"Phew! A hundred and ten!"
Wang Ye stood up.
His face was brimming with uncontrollable joy.
Yesterday, he could only do sixty-seven; today, he managed to do a hard-earned one hundred and ten!
This strength increase was truly rapid!
After finishing, Wang Ye realized that if his physique kept evolving like this,
just using self-weight exercises like push-ups might no longer accurately asure his strength gains.
He needed quantifiable weight data.
For instance, weightlifting — using the weight of barbells to precisely gauge his strength level.
Moreover, this standardized exercise would allow him to comparatively assess his weightlifting data against those of Olympic athletes to see how far his strength is from the current human limits.
Wang Ye kneaded his sore muscles, "I’ll find a suitable gym at the mall after finishing my run later."
Then Wang Ye took out a crumpled draft paper from the study.
On the second row, he wrote down.
[April 21st Evolution Data.]
[Fourth day of evolution.]
[Body: 1.7]
[Divine: 0.8]
[Evolution Level: 14.0]
[Weight: 71.34KG]
[Height: 175.5CM]
[Push-ups: 110]
[Five kiloters: empty]
[Ten kiloters: empty]
[Miscellaneous records: All five senses have slightly increased, notably in sll evolution, reduced changes in skin keratin layer, slight acceleration in thinking speed...]
Wang Ye stopped writing.
He carefully folded the draft paper and placed it between a book.
Then he changed into shorts and a short-sleeve sports outfit, put on new running shoes, poured a spoon of electrolyte powder into his water bottle, shook it well, and tucked it into the canvas bag he carried, ready to test his five-kiloter and ten-kiloter running data.
He stepped out the door and headed to the riverside trail where he often went for a run.
Following the dynamic stretching warm-up shared by a professional athlete in the group, he activated his waist, hips, and joints.
The moves were simple—
Heel raises for a minute, lunge stretches for a minute, high knees for a minute, knee hugs for a minute.
After one round, he started to sweat lightly, and his muscles weren’t as stiff.
One must admit, the warm-up thod shared by the professional athlete was indeed effective.
In just four minutes, his muscles and joints reached an optimum state, far more efficient than his regular brisk walking warm-up.
After warming up.
Wang Ye stepped onto the track, activated the running mode on his watch, and started jogging around Longjiang Park.
Due to this morning’s evolution, his physique had significantly improved.
Yesterday’s pace beca much easier for him.
Running at a pace of about 5 minutes per kiloter, he ran continuously for one kiloter, and his heart rate didn’t even reach 160.
This speed was evidently comfortable for him.
To find a pace suitable for himself, he could only gradually increase his stride frequency to test his physical limits.
As Wang Ye accelerated, the real-ti stride frequency on his watch gradually increased. From 180 steps per minute, it gradually rose to 190 per minute.
His pace also improved to four and a half minutes per kiloter.
At this speed, Wang Ye finally felt so exertion.
His heart rate steadily rose to around 180, the drum-like beats echoed constantly in his ears, and the blood in his body flowed swiftly like a river, his leg muscles burning as if on fire.
This feeling was as painful as the final sprint of the 1000-ter test during his university fitness test, pushing his body’s functions to the limit. Muscles suddenly transitioned from low to high energy consumption, breathing couldn’t keep up with the oxygen demand, simply put, it felt uncomfortable all over. His mind, overwheld by inertia, persistently urged him to stop and rest.
Though he felt like he might cough up blood, Wang Ye found that he could barely maintain a balance between energy expenditure and recovery in this extre state.
His breathing was turbine-like, with an astonishing oxygen intake, providing more energy release.
He couldn’t help but marvel at his frightening recovery capability, then bit his teeth to maintain this speed towards the ten-kiloter goal.
Wang Ye realized during his run that when he increased his running pace to 4.50, his Skill Level improved faster than yesterday.
Yesterday at a five-minute pace, each kiloter barely increased his Skill Level by 1%.
Today, however, it increased by nearly 2% per kiloter.
The efficiency almost doubled.
And this change occurred only after he consciously increased the difficulty of his training.
This made Wang Ye suddenly realize that the more challenges he encountered during training, the faster his Skill Level would improve.
After finishing the ten kiloters, Wang Ye leaned against the riverside iron fence, gasping for breath, while reaching for the electrolyte water from his bag, taking a small sip.
Then he limped over to a park bench and sat down.
He lifted his watch.
[10.1 kiloters.]
[Ti: 00:45.24]
[Average pace: 4.48]
"About 13 minutes faster than yesterday, the progress is quite apparent."
Wang Ye couldn’t help but smile.
He sat on the bench, crossed his legs, massaging the sore calf muscles.
He noticed that after high-intensity training, his calf muscles were so warm they felt hot to the touch.
At the sa ti, Wang Ye felt slightly dizzy, unable to stop sweating on his forehead, clearly, he was experiencing low blood sugar. A strong sense of hunger welled up, making him feel like he could eat eight ounces of rice right now.
Yet an hour ago, he had just finished a substantial bowl of beef noodles,
and had been supplenting with a bottle of slightly sugary electrolyte water for energy.
Unexpectedly, running just ten kiloters made him hungry again.
"After stretching, I’ll find a street snack store for a al."
While Wang Ye was resting and stretching in place.
His phone suddenly vibrated slightly in his pocket.
Beep beep.
He took out his phone only to find that the young man nad Ye Yunyan, who added him as a friend yesterday, was ntioning him in the Longjiang District running group chat.
Curious, Wang Ye opened the chat group to see the conversation.
He discovered that soone had recorded a video of him running just now and posted it in the group.
In the video, Wang Ye was running steadily along the riverside track, his running posture and rhythm visibly professional, each step seemingly effortless.
Within seconds, his silhouette vanished outside the cara’s fra, indicating the speed at which he was running.
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