Chapter 408: Hinata's Exclusive Training Plan
The two walked silently, each occupied with their own thoughts. In this quiet atmosphere, the corridor seemed to stretch many times longer, as if it would never end.
However, they reached the end eventually.
The end was the entrance of the hospital. When they walked out, it was around four in the afternoon. The scorching sun still retained a lot of heat, and the sunlight was a bit blinding. The two beautiful girls walking out of the hospital squinted their eyes simultaneously.
"Hn." The pink-haired one shaded her eyebrows with her palm to make a visor and looked around left and right. "Where to?"
Tsunade said she should rest for a while, and her body, having just undergone treatment, was not suitable for too intense exercise or training. So where could they go? It wasn't mealtime yet. You might not believe it, but Haruno Sakura didn't know much about the entertainment venues in Konoha Village.
"Up to you, I'm fine with anything." Haku smiled faintly.
Haruno Sakura barely held back the urge to roll her eyes. What she hated most in this life and her previous life was the answer "up to you" or "whatever." Many people say "whatever," but when you don't guess their meaning, it becomes "not whatever." The more some people say "whatever," the less "whatever" they actually are; it's simply disgusting.
However, Haku was not such a person. She really didn't care, as long as she was with Sakura.
Haruno Sakura hesitated for a moment, then suddenly thought of something: "Let's go to Hinata's place first."
She suddenly remembered that her three students should be training with Hinata during this time. Too many things happened during this mission abroad, especially the two successive battles with the Akatsuki and Root, which made her physically and mentally exhausted. Thinking of her students training safely with Hinata, she actually envied them a little.
I wonder what Hinata is teaching them?
Hinata certainly wouldn't teach the family's secret Gentle Fist to a few unrelated children. However, Haruno Sakura didn't expect to see such a scene in the Hyuga courtyard—
"Listen to my command—" "Left hook!" "Right straight!" "Right thrust punch!"
This was Hinata's clear voice.
"Yes—!" "Heh!" "Heh!" "Heh!"
This was the neat shouting of the Genin.
Uh... is this military training? Just practicing these simple things? The corner of Sakura's mouth twitched.
She and Haku stopped outside the yard and observed for a while before gradually seeing the clues: Although Hinata's training was just practicing the most basic taijutsu fundamentals, she taught it extremely meticulously. Every movement had to be practiced repeatedly and corrected, not letting go of even the slightest muscle pull.
It was so detailed that she started explaining from generating force at the soles of the feet. The movement of every toe and key muscles—extensor digitorum brevis, extensor hallucis brevis—was explained clearly.
Plus, she had the Byakugan, which could directly penetrate clothes and skin to see their muscle movements. Hinata could see clearly whether every movement achieved the standard, was most suitable for generating force, and maximized power. Therefore, when guiding the children's training, she got twice the result with half the effort.
If the profound meaning of taijutsu was scored out of one hundred, then Might Guy, who opened the last gate of the Eight Inner Gates, could get 99 points (deducting one point for fear of him getting proud). The Hyuga family, specializing in taijutsu for a hundred years, would be about 95 points. Hinata, who weeded out the old to bring forth the new and gradually formed her own school in taijutsu, could personally reach about 90 points. As for Haruno Sakura herself, if Nintaijutsu wasn't counted, 80 points would be a stretch.
So the gap between a 90-point teacher and an 80-point teacher lay here: Hinata had only trained them for a few days, and the taijutsu ability of Sakura's three subordinates had improved a lot. More importantly, Hinata helped them consolidate their taijutsu foundation, which is the root from which a towering building of taijutsu would rise in the future.
Haku noticed the expression of the girl beside her, changing quickly from a little displeasure at the beginning to thoughtfulness.
"Hm, what's wrong, Sakura?"
"Nothing." Haruno Sakura laughed off the misunderstanding she had just brainstormed and smiled, "Look, Hinata's training is very interesting."
"I can't tell." The black-haired girl pursed her moist, pink lips slightly, frowned and watched for a good while, before answering in a low voice.
She had been out of the sequence of frontline combat ninja for a long time, plus she hadn't received much formal taijutsu training originally, so it was normal not to understand the tricks inside.
"Alright... do you know about fast-twitch red muscle?" Sakura thought for a moment and picked the easiest part to understand to explain to Haku.
The black-haired girl nodded.
As a high-level medical ninja, she was clear about this common sense. medically, skeletal muscles can be divided into fast-twitch muscles and slow-twitch muscles according to activity function, and red muscles and white muscles according to morphology. Combined, skeletal muscles can be divided into three types: slow-twitch red muscle (Type I), fast-twitch red muscle (Type IIa), and fast-twitch white muscle (Type IIb), also commonly known as red muscle, pink muscle, and white muscle.
For ninja, red muscle has the strongest endurance and weakest explosiveness, while white muscle is the opposite. Pink muscle, however, can combine the characteristics of high endurance and high explosive power. So theoretically, ninja should pursue pink muscle and strive to expand the proportion of pink muscle through exercise.
Of course, that's the theory. In reality, can you expect ninja, a significant portion of whom are semi-illiterate, to understand what fast-twitch red muscle is, and then design a reasonable training plan to exercise it by themselves? The Hyuga family has hundreds of years of taijutsu inheritance and knows how to exercise muscles more efficiently for ninja, but unfortunately, they only know the how but not the why—the Byakugan cannot see the color of muscles.
Haruno Sakura continued to explain: "The training plan arranged by Hinata can maximize and most efficiently increase the proportion of pink muscle to the highest level. This is one of Hinata's brilliant points."
Hinata's training method was born from the Hyuga family's hereditary training method, with perfected details, striving to improve the practitioner's strength efficiently rather than pursuing self-mutilation. Naturally, it cannot be compared with Guy and Lee's skipping rope 10,000 times or running ten laps around the village at high speed—blindly pursuing high-intensity exercise. In the whole world, only those two taijutsu freaks can withstand the latter. If ordinary people practiced that forcibly, they would die from overdrawing their bodies within three months.
Through the orderly combination of aerobic and anaerobic exercise, combined with the Hyuga family's unique tenketsu stimulation and chakra massage, as well as the medical means developed by Sakura, the proportion of pink muscle can be quickly and effectively increased. Generally, non-taijutsu ninja can increase it to more than 60% or 70%, while Hinata, who specializes in taijutsu, has even replaced more than 85% of her body's muscles with pink muscle.
However, Sakura specifically mentioned this point naturally because the creative source and perfection of Hinata's unique training stunt—
"Of course, it was completed with this young lady's support."
The pink-haired girl said as a matter of course.
Haku Minazuki chuckled.
Speaking of who felt the deepest about Hinata's seemingly simple but actually subtly hidden training plan, it was naturally Haruno Sakura's three students. Although they didn't know what red muscle or white muscle was, nor did they understand why a simple straight punch had to be practiced from the sole of the foot to the fingertips, they could intuitively feel that after just a few days of training, the strength, speed, and endurance of the three had improved significantly; and in actual combat, more accurate, concise, and powerful punches and kicks also brought intuitive changes to the students' combat effectiveness.
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