Chapter 42: Excuses? This Divine Tycoon Doesn't Want to Hear Them!

Chapter 42: Excuses? This Tycoon Does Not Want to Hear Them!

In accordance with his newly made schedule, Gao Yun arrived at Caesar Fitness right on time after a meal to begin his training. He also brought along his camera, planning to record all his activities for the day and turn them into a series of vlogs. He decided to title the first one "The First Day of a Personal Trainee," with tomorrow and the day after being the second and third days, and so on.

By keeping this up, Gao Yun felt he could not only improve his shooting and editing skills, but also maintain a steady stream of video updates, successfully continuing his path as a self-media creator.

Should luck be on his side and he eventually became a multi-hundred-million-earning internet celebrity, he would no longer have to worry about how to spend money without attracting suspicion. At the absolute worst, even if the system disappeared, he would still be able to live a very comfortable life.

One must still have dreams; what if they actually came true?

A person must always rely on themselves. Relying on a mountain causes it to crumble; relying on a building causes it to collapse.

Since the heavens could bestow such a system upon him without warning, they could just as easily take it away inexplicably on some future day. No one could say for sure with things like this.

For today's training, Gao Yun still focused primarily on agility attributes, supplemented by strength equipment, followed by post-workout stretching to enhance his flexibility along the way.

It had been over half a month since he acquired the "I'm Not Interested in Money" system. During this period, he had hardly paused his fitness training, not even missing a beat during those four days in Hangzhou.

Through this half-month, Gao Yun finally dared to confirm that the system had undoubtedly thoroughly remodeled his body.

In the past, under the same training volume, the same diet, and the same amount of time, his progress would only be 1. Now, his progress was 3. Not only was his workout efficiency tripled, but his physical energy, recovery capacity, and various other aspects had also been enhanced accordingly.

However, there was an unavoidable problem: the five attributes of strength, endurance, speed, agility, and flexibility conflicted with one another, making it difficult to achieve balanced development across the board.

Once strength grew too quickly, the four indicators of speed, agility, flexibility, and endurance would slightly decline. Conversely, if any one of speed, agility, flexibility, or endurance progressed too rapidly, it would cause the other indicators to drop slightly.

This was entirely scientific; strength required muscle for support, and an increase in muscle mass would inevitably increase body weight, thereby affecting other attributes.

Weightlifters possessed the greatest strength, but no matter how fast their speed was, they could not outrun a sprinter.

Sprinters had great speed, but their endurance could not match that of long-distance runners.

Gymnasts possessed neither the strength nor the speed of the first three, but their flexibility ranked first.

Boxers and martial artists ranked at the bottom among those athletes in the other four attributes, but their agility reigned supreme across the board.

Was there any professional sport that demanded high standards across all five attributes and featured relatively balanced physical fitness?

If I trained using their training methods, would I be able to break through more attributes in the shortest possible time? Gao Yun pondered while performing his post-workout stretches.

Finally, a rugby match playing on the gym television caught his attention.

In the video, the rugby players wore heavy protective gear, and the exposed muscles of their arms and thighs were almost as thick as those of professional bodybuilding athletes. On the field, they collided with each other like wild bulls, yet their running speed was astonishingly fast, resembling cheetahs.

During high-speed sprints, they would flexibly twist, turn, and maneuver from time to time to dodge opposing tackles and contend for the ball, and they could even leap directly over an opponent's interception by doing a somersault.

With each rugby match lasting two hours, their various long-distance dashes also made their endurance quite staggering, combined with this agility and intense sense of power.

"This is what I want!"

Gao Yun's eyes lit up as he ran even harder on the treadmill.

Training himself using a rugby player's training methods would definitely allow for balanced development, letting him break through all five attributes in the shortest possible time and become a pentagonal warrior with no weak points.

But the problem arose: he did not know how rugby players trained, and an exercise routine suited for them might not necessarily suit him.

Moreover, even if he knew how to train, he did not really want to work out entirely by himself.

Working out alone led to laziness; issues like excessively long rest times or deformed movements were inevitable and completely unnoticeable to oneself. It was precisely these details that often led to disappointing final training results. No one could avoid this; even the greatest athletes needed a supervising sparring partner to guarantee one-hundred-percent training effectiveness.

"I must hire a physical conditioning coach! And I need to hire a professional American football physical conditioning coach!"

Gao Yun calculated in his heart. Rugby was an extremely niche sport domestically, so the caliber of its physical conditioning coaches could be imagined—they were probably not even as good as himself.

Regarding this, he possessed immense confidence. A fitness expert-level skill was truly not just about building muscle and losing fat.

Body sculpting, posture improvement, sports rehabilitation, postpartum rehabilitation, chronic disease rehabilitation, specialized athletic training, and so on—once fitness skills were mastered, they provided immense help to all other professional sports. This was the foundation.

Gao Yun was extremely proficient in sports nutrition, sports anatomy, sports physiology, sports psychology, sports biomechanics, health and physical fitness, and various other fields.

He knew the names and locations of the human body's 206 bones backward and forward. He clearly remembered the starting and ending points of the human body's 603 muscles, as well as the function of every single muscle.

How to perform isolated training for a specific muscle, how to increase overall core explosiveness, how to make cardiopulmonary function stronger, muscular endurance better, and the body more flexible.

Gao Yun understood all of this. Although the system evaluated his physical fitness as inferior to athletes who made a living out of it, that was only when comparing a single attribute of his against a professional athlete—comparing his strength with a weightlifter's, his speed with a sprinter's...

If all five of his indicator attributes were added together and compared with those professional athletes by their sum, he would probably have already秒杀了 (annihilated/surpassed) eighty percent of professional athletes. It wasn't to say he was that incredible; down to the root, the initial training objectives were simply different.

In short, if he was going to hire a physical conditioning coach, he had to hire the very best. Firstly, he was not short on money; secondly, he genuinely feared hiring someone only to find out their skill level was inferior to his own, which would be utterly ridiculous.

And Gao Yun, who possessed expert-level fitness skills, needed to hire someone who commanded at least authority-level or higher sports skills to effectively help him improve. Master-level effects were still a bit too weak.

Private trainers of this caliber were not so easy to find.

After finishing his workout, Gao Yun, on one hand, used his phone to ask for help on his omnipotent Moments feed, seeking not only trainers but also nutritionists, chefs, physicians, physical therapists, and other positions.

On the other hand, he used the internet to find the contact information of three different renowned domestic and international headhunting firms, paying three hefty deposits for them to scour the market for these professional talents.

His requirements were simple: their resumes had to be stellar, their experience had to be extensive, and they could name whatever salary and benefits they wanted.

"I can afford Cristiano Ronaldo and LeBron James's teams as well. As long as you can poach them, name your price."

"Money? Don't talk to me about money. I'm not interested in money; I'm only interested in breaking through my physical attributes."

A strong person was harder to kill than a weak one, and overall, they were much more useful.

He intended to start recruiting his behind-the-scenes team right now, specializing in improving his physical attributes. After all, while he now had teachers instructing him in his skills, his physical attributes could not afford to lag behind either.

However, the three headhunting firms sang the same tune: it might be quite difficult to find such people. On one hand, these professional talents were relatively rare, and currently enjoyed stable jobs with generous benefits; on the other hand, his requirements were too high, meaning the negotiation process would take quite a while.

Excuses! All excuses!

This tycoon did not want to hear them!

Gao Yun sneered. "How do your headhunting agencies charge their fees?"

The female voice on the other end of the phone was crisp and pleasant, speaking in fluent and standard Mandarin: "Our industry's standard fee structure for headhunting is as follows: for any position you officially hire for, we charge 20% to 40% of that position's annual salary, fluctuating up or down based on the specific negotiation difficulty and our employees' travel expenses."

Without even thinking, Gao Yun stated decisively, "I'll give you a 60% service fee! Then you tell those people that the salary and benefits for all positions will be multiplied by 1.5 based on their original figures. Do you have any other problems?"

"..."

"Are there any problems?" Gao Yun repeated.

"No problems, sir!"

The once gentle, oriole-like female voice instantly pitched up: "We will make sure to provide you with the highest-caliber talent in the shortest possible time!!"

"Good. Go find them then, get moving!"

"Understood, sir, going right now!"

Gao Yun hummed with a smile and hung up the phone.

"When I was young, I thought money was supreme. Now that I am older, I find that indeed, it truly is!"

Thanks to "Haikiy" for the tip, thank you very much!

(End of this chapter)