Chapter 949: Chapter 551: Mine

The gym of Fourth Middle School is located in Building 4.

Building 4 belongs to the comprehensive center, with a library, music room, calligraphy room, equipment room, and so on.

The gym is on the first floor, consisting of two large classrooms combined, providing a spacious area.

Under the guidance of the physical education teacher, the students entered one by one, with Jiang Ning at the back.

Xue Yuantong quietly told him that once the exercise task was over today, she would go to Mr. Guo’s office to play on the computer and would find him to pick Chuchu up just before the class ended.

Saying goodbye to Tongtong, Jiang Ning stepped into the gym, his eyes taking in various equipment, dumbbells, barbells, bench press rack, Smith machine, leg press machine, and Hack squat machine…

The variety of equipment is comparable to that of a commercial gym. Of course, facilities like treadmills are absent, given the outdoor track is available.

As the students entered, they were like fish in water, touching here and looking there, everything was extremely novel to them.

Cui Yu swaggered over to a piece of equipment and said to Ma Shicheng and others: “The bench press rack, I saw on TV, gym-goers love this machine.”

The new classmate, Qiang Li, wearing glasses, was delighted to hear this, finally, someone stepped up to accompany him.

Qiang Li used to be bullied often because of his short stature in school.

Later, to become stronger, he got a gym membership and trained day after day, eventually becoming strong!

Unfortunately, with social development and technological progress, bad students have gradually disappeared, so his imagined revenge never got a chance to unfold.

The few times he had, it was on the badminton court where Pang Jiao brutally bullied his friend Chai Wei, despite Qiang Li’s frequent weightlifting, he simply couldn’t bring himself to hit Pang Jiao.

He wasn’t afraid of Pang Jiao’s physical attacks, but he dreaded her chemical attacks.

After transferring to class 8, his friend Chai Wei repeatedly suffered setbacks, the old glory of class 6 waned, but a turning point appeared today, as Qiang Li put on a disdainful smile:

“It’s the bench press rack, brothers, want to play around with it?”

Cui Yu felt his smile was infuriating: “Come, come, come!”

Qiang Li: “Do you know how to do it?”

Cui Yu didn’t know, so he directly raised his hand: “Teacher, how do you do the bench press?”

Gu Wei, the P.E. teacher, was already planning to demonstrate the exercise to everyone. At this moment, hearing the students shout, he decisively walked towards the bench press rack.

Seeing the teacher’s demonstration, students gathered quickly, forming layers of circles around the bench press rack.

Gu Wei approached the bench press rack and added 20kg of weight on each side of the barbell.

He explained: “Do any students know the total weight of the barbell now?”

Jiang Yanan, who was close, answered: “Two 20kgs, total 40kg.”

Gu Wei pointed to the bar: “This bar is also 20kg, so the total weight is 60kg.”

“120 pounds? I’m only 105 pounds!” Jiang Yanan looked at the barbell, slightly surprised.

Cui Yu glanced at Jiang Yanan, inappropriately saying: “You weigh over a hundred, you’re almost heavier than me.”

Jiang Yanan, attacked about her weight, wasn’t angry at all; her tone carried a bit of pride: “I’m 168 cm tall.”

“Next, I’ll demonstrate the correct posture for a standard barbell bench press.”

Gu Wei laid back on the bench press bench, adjusting his position: “Align your eyes with the bar, place your feet on the ground, then your body will naturally form an arch.”

From the side, Gu Wei’s waist was off the bench.

“Position your hands 1.5 times shoulder-width apart and grip the barbell.”

“First, lift the barbell off, take a deep breath!”

Gu Wei demonstrated a 60kg bench press, his movements very fluid.

“Bring it to the level of your sternum, remember it’s at the sternum level.”

Gu Wei did three or four more, very easily, looking as if it’s effortless.

Cui Yu said: “What’s so hard about this, teacher let me try!”

Gu Wei smiled, “Sure.”

He got up and removed the two weight plates.

Cui Yu felt insulted, “Teacher, put them back on.”

“You can’t lift it.” Gu Wei said.

“Teacher, can I try?”

“You try with the lighter first, and if you can lift it, I’ll give you the bigger weight plates.” Gu Wei knew that high school students at this age loved to show off the most.

“Okay.” Cui Yu reluctantly agreed.

So Gu Wei put on two 10kg weight plates, currently totaling 40kg.

“Watch carefully, watch carefully!” Cui Yu said to the students around, especially his buddies Meng Gui, Brother Ma, Dan Kaiquan, and the girls, like Jiang Yanan and Shen Qing’e.

What guy doesn’t want to show off his strength in front of pretty girls?

It’s an instinct engraved in their genes, unavoidable.

Gu Wei, worried about the student’s injury, stayed nearby to assist the whole time.

Cui Yu laid in position, grabbed the barbell, mimicking the teacher’s earlier actions, grasping the barbell, took a deep breath, and lifted it up abruptly, his arms trembling:

“Damn, it’s heavy!”

Cui Yu brought the barbell to the sternum and prepared to lift it, but got pinned down directly, unable to push it at all.

In the end, it was Gu Wei who helped put the barbell back on the rack.

Cui Yu felt utterly embarrassed, as if he had lost face badly.

“Is it really that heavy?” Zhang Chi seemed unimpressed.

Duan Shigang: “Yu Zi, what’s wrong with you?”

Duan Shigang knew he watched movies in class every day, resulting in too much watching and ending up weak!

A sudden chaos erupted, Gu Wei said: “Don’t laugh at him, a 40kg bench press, I dare say among all the students present, less than a handful can lift it.”

Everyone was unconvinced: “What’s so hard about 40kg?”

Guo Kunnan volunteered to give it a try, only to also get pinned down.

Gu Wei found it amusing watching from the side. Normally built individuals without training experience, not many can bench press 40kg for the first time.

Around the bench press rack, many male students enthusiastically challenged, while the female students watched with great interest.

…

Many of the equipment was occupied by other classes, Jiang Ning found an empty corner, grabbed a 10kg barbell bar, and added two 5kg plates.

“Aren’t you interested in learning fitness? Let me teach you the barbell deadlift, it’s one of the big three lifts.”