Mao Chen’s growth career

Mao Chen is a child from a farm family. Because he has been relatively strong since he was a child, his parents thought he could do weightlifting, so they took him to the Kaihua County Youth Sports School. He was only nine years old at the time and didn't know what weightlifting was, but he just thought it was fun. There were many people training in the sports school and it was lively. Mao Chen, who was new to weightlifting, found it very interesting. However, as time goes by, young Mao Chen will also miss home and his former teachers and classmates. Fortunately, he can go home every weekend. Gradually, he integrated into the training atmosphere of the sports school and discovered the fun in it, so he no longer felt that weightlifting was hard.

At the beginning of 2007, Mao Chen entered the provincial team. Usually, he trains during the day and takes cultural classes at night. He only has Sunday off every week. Only during the Spring Festival, I would take a few days off to go back to Kaihua to visit my grandma and get together with my childhood friends. For ordinary children, this is obviously very hard, but Mao Chen doesn't think so. "This kind of life should be described as fulfilling." Mao Chen said that he will not regret choosing the path of weightlifting. He trains with his teammates and often competes to win drinks. If he succeeds in lifting, he will ask others to buy him drinks. If the move fails, buy it from someone else.

Ten years of training life will inevitably encounter difficulties. During the enlightenment training, Mao Chen's wrist had been injured. When he was 15 years old, due to the pressure on his wrist from daily training, Mao Chen injured his wrist over time. Looking at his seriously injured wrist, Mao Chen felt very conflicted. Every day, others go to train, but I can only watch from the side, wanting to practice but not being able to. At that time, he briefly considered giving up weightlifting. But when he calmed down and thought of the suffering he had suffered during previous training, he felt unwilling to do so. At the 2010 National Youth Weightlifting Championships, he fought hard against the crowd and not only won the snatch championship, but also achieved fourth place overall.

Mao Chen’s first coach was Zhu Yuner, the first coach of Olympic champion Zhan Xugang. Coach Zhu said that there were many children recommended to the sports school at that time, and they were all very strong, but whether they could practice weight lifting should not only depend on their appearance, but also on their explosive power. Among the many children, Coach Zhu took a fancy to Mao Chen. Although Mao Chen has some flaws in his arms, he usually trains very hard and has a strong personality, so he has made rapid progress. "When he was ten years old, this child went to participate in a competition for the first time, but he failed. He rolled on the ground in sadness." Mao Chen would text Coach Zhu during every competition. Coach Zhu still keeps these text messages one by one in his mobile phone.