Uma Musume: Becoming a Legendary Trainer Chapter 72: A Prospect for Training Methods

Oguri Cap's first weighted training went very smoothly.

The specially designed weighted gear fit perfectly — the clothing part was light and form-fitting, and the weighted tal plates were thin and securely fastened. While training, her muscles and joints moved freely.

Her training performance had obviously declined. Compared by stages, her current performance in all areas was about 20 to 25 percent lower than when she first enrolled.

That number doesn't look big, but in actual racing, it's a completely different story.

For example, if she were to run a 1200-ter race while carrying the weights against her unweighted self, she would lose by more than 10 lengths — a huge gap.

But that was the very purpose of this weighted training. If she could fully adapt to the 40 kilograms of weight, then once she took off the weights, her ability would definitely improve by a noticeable margin.

There's no way she could improve by 10 lengths compared to her current self — weighted training doesn't have that kind of transformative power. If you truly want a rebirth-like leap in performance, it still relies on steady accumulation over ti.

But getting a few ters faster than she is now is absolutely achievable. If this kind of progress can continue, once she enters Central (the top-level competitions), races will definitely go more smoothly.

These were just the basic thoughts after training ended — Kitahara hadn't done an in-depth analysis yet, because Kyoko Miyamura had so suggestions to share.

After dinner, in the trainer's office, Kitahara and Kyoko Miyamura each had a cup of hot milk. Kyoko Miyamura opened the conversation.

"I'd like to suggest that Mr. Kitahara incorporate so dical monitoring thods into Oguri Cap's training."

She went straight to the point: "From the teachers I've learned that Mr. Kitahara has researched international training thods, and has even considered bringing in so — for example, dical monitoring."

This was indeed sothing Kitahara had thought about long ago. Before heading to Tokyo, he had ntioned these ideas to his uncle, Roppei Ginjiro.

But he knew from the start that this wasn't sothing that could be done overnight.

First of all, there was his own capability.

Sports dicine was already a highly systematic, interdisciplinary applied science — monitoring health, athletic performance and its influencing factors, preventing and treating exercise-induced illnesses, managing fatigue recovery, injury rehabilitation, and nutritional balance — all of this required extrely specialized expertise.

He understood a little — at best, he knew so dical techniques from a training perspective. Beyond that, he was basically clueless.

Physiology, pathology, pharmacology, anatomy — the "three theories and one anatomy" of dical fundantals — he didn't know.

Clinical diagnostics, biochemical treatnts, psychology — he only had so understanding in psychology.

Go deeper still — bacteriology, virology, microbiology, genetics… he didn't even understand them; he just knew the nas.

In his original plan, he had intended to purchase so sports dicine equipnt before leaving Tokyo to assist in training, while slowly learning more himself.

But with Kyoko Miyamura's appearance, he changed his mind.

Having this ready-made dical prodigy handle the matter, even take charge of equipnt procurent, was clearly the best use of talent.

"That's right, I did have this idea," Kitahara nodded. "From what I know, internationally there are already complete systems in this field, breaking down various trics into very fine categories, with matching specialized equipnt."

"Body morphology trics, terminal limb strength trics, respiratory ventilation capacity, abdominal muscle function, heart rate function, flexibility function, the nervous system's dynamic reaction speed, baseline and explosive strength in upper and lower limbs, balance and coordination."

"These are roughly the ones I know. If there's anything incomplete, Kyoko, just correct — don't hold back."

What's there to correct anymore

You just listed all nine major physiological trics — if I "correct" anything now…

Am I supposed to make up a new set on the spot?!

Montarily stunned by Kitahara's level of knowledge, Kyoko Miyamura suddenly felt a little intimidated.

".Mr. Kitahara, since you already know all this, I suddenly feel like my suggestion might be a bit redundant…"

Kitahara blinked, then, seeing the worried look on the girl's face, quickly realized she had misunderstood.

"Not at all."

He smiled and explained, "I only know these terms, at most how they show up in training."

"But as for how to analyze them from a dical standpoint, how to gather the relevant data, how to process it, how to make the analysis results more useful — I know absolutely none of that."

"To be honest, if you asked to buy the specialized equipnt for this, I'd be at a loss for a long ti, and in the end still wouldn't buy the most suitable ones."

"...Mr. Kitahara, aren't you being a bit modest?" Kyoko Miyamura looked doubtful.

"I'm not — I really an it."

Kitahara sighed slightly. "I did look into so companies before."

"dtronic, Johnson & Johnson dical, Siens, Thermo Fisher Scientific… and many others. These Fortune 100 dical companies all have production lines in this area — many brands, many models."

"If I were to buy, my reference standard would simply be whatever other trainers bought, I'd buy the sa."

"But dostic trainers' selection criteria differ from international ones, and different horse girls need different equipnt. Even if I spend ti learning the basics, I wouldn't necessarily find the best match."

"And it would waste a lot of ti."

Kitahara's gaze grew sincere. "In other words, Kyoko, you're the real expert here. The mont I heard you ntion this, I wanted to ask for your help in taking charge of the purchasing."

"Of course, I'll handle the expenses — the academy will reimburse so as well."

"I—I see. So I am of so use after all… that's wonderful…"

With that slightly self-effacing line, Kyoko Miyamura's expression grew earnest.

"I'll also put in so money for the purchases — I still have so allowance saved."

"I really like Oguri Cap and the others. Actually, I've always loved the horse girls. Besides having many doctors in my family, the reason I chose to study dicine was because I wanted to do sothing for them."

"So leave this part to . This was exactly what I wanted to talk to you about, Mr. Kitahara."

She nodded seriously, then gave a small wry smile.

"But as for my other suggestions, I'm afraid I was showing off a bit — especially now that I see Mr. Kitahara already knows so much about dicine…"

Faced with her praise, Kitahara chuckled casually.

"No need for all that. We're both thinking of Oguri Cap and the others, so Kyoko, just speak your mind."

"No matter what, I'm only one person — I can't possibly think of everything. The suggestions you bring up might help a lot," he said, with an encouraging tone.

"Is that so…"

Kyoko bit her lip, hesitation lingering on her face for a while. Finally, she pursed her lips, puffed her cheeks a little, and nodded resolutely.

"All right, then I'll speak plainly."

"This set of suggestions is actually about training itself. Maybe Mr. Kitahara has thought of them already, but based on what you just said, I'll still recomnd them."

"Parachute sprint training, wind tunnel training, gravity chamber training, biochanical motion simulation modeling — these international training systems — as well as the OgaWave, a digital competitive-state integrated diagnostic system…"

"Has Mr. Kitahara considered these?"

(End of this chapter)