This was perfectly ordinary. In Huaxia, replacing the broadcast calisthenics routine taught to students every few years had become standard practice.
What outsiders did not know, however, was that everyone attending this training had undergone rigorous screening. All of them had clean backgrounds and upright character.
Moreover, only after arriving at the designated training venues did they discover that the training would be conducted in isolation.
Fine, there was nothing wrong with that. But apart from two hours spent learning calisthenics each day, all their remaining time was devoted to political theory classes.
It made absolutely no sense!
Still, people in Huaxia were very adaptable. Since they were already there, and their meals and lodging were covered anyway, they might as well accept whatever training was offered.
Once the actual training began, however, they understood why it lasted only two hours a day. They spent those entire two hours repeating a single movement. The monotony was beyond description.
Everyone felt the same way: after practicing a movement for two hours, they were completely drained, both physically and mentally.
At that point, sitting comfortably in an air-conditioned room did not seem so bad.
Although everyone attending the training found this new broadcast calisthenics routine rather strange, none of them gave it much thought. At most, they assumed it offered a better workout.
According to the plan, they needed to master the basics of this broadcast calisthenics routine within a month.
Mastering the basics meant learning every movement. Of course, knowing all the movements did not mean someone could perform the entire routine in one go.
Each movement in the Body-Strengthening Exercise could be learned separately, but achieving its true fitness benefits required practicing the movements in a continuous sequence. That, in turn, required a long period of training.
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