Teacher Zhang Yukai believes that some people may not achieve academic success, but they can gain confidence from other fields. ? The film "Meeting Socrates at a Gas Station Late at Night" adapted from a book tells the story of a dialogue between an athlete and a mysterious old man named Socrates. The athlete wants to achieve greater success in the arena, but he has met a bottleneck. After meeting the old man, the wise words of the old man deeply affect the performance of athletes ... Zhang Yukai, a research professor in the Department of Physical Education of Taiwan Province Normal University in China, is such a "Socrates"!

Zhang Yukai is not only an expert professor who studies sports psychology, but also a psychological tutor for many young athletes in China. At present, he is also a psychological counselor of China Professional Baseball League. However, this "Socrates" is neither ancient nor mysterious. Sixty-six years ago, Zhang Yukai made outstanding achievements in China Wushu (national martial arts), and applied sports psychological skills to players and even himself, so that he could be perfectly balanced in different roles, which should have been unimaginable before he was twenty years old.

Learn learning skills from martial arts? "I am not very good at reading since I was a child. In an interview, yu zhang Kay took this sentence as the opening remarks of his self-introduction. As a research professor at Taiwan Province Normal University and a doctor of philosophy in the Department of Fitness and Competitive Sports Science at Greensburg Campus, North Carolina, he was suspected of having a future when he was a child. " I grew up in an educated family. When I got my postdoctoral degree and called my grandmother to report the good news, she said happily, "You are the tenth doctor in our family! It can be seen how excellent my family's academic performance is, but it also puts a lot of pressure on me who can't read. " He said.

Although Zhang Yukai was not very good at reading when he was a child, he liked reading. After reading a martial arts cartoon once, he had a completely different life. "When I was a child, I liked to watch martial arts comics about real people. After I entered Ming Dow Middle School, I learned that there was a martial arts team in the school, and the instructor in the club was a disciple of the real person mentioned in the cartoon. I was very excited and joined immediately. " He said.

Wushu is divided into North School and South School. The northern faction fights as charming as Chu Liuxiang, while the southern faction fights with a strong sense of muscle. Zhang Yukai, who originally studied in the North School, temporarily joined the cry of the South School in the boxing match of the North School when he participated in the Zhengzheng Cup Wushu Competition for the first time in the second year of high school, but also won the silver medal, which enhanced his confidence. He thought he was a martial arts genius, and of course he practiced harder afterwards.

After being admitted to the university, he aimed at martial arts and entered the martial arts group of the physical education department of the Cultural University with high scores in subjects and techniques. "One day in my junior year, I was thinking about how to practice a boxing. There are generally 50 or 60 movements in the routine of China Wushu. Each movement is divided into four sections, one of which has several sections, and the other is a combination of five or six techniques, postures or footwork. Isn't it like a book? Now I suddenly realize that martial arts and reading are the same, "he said. "

The learning methods of reading and martial arts are in the same strain. A book can read its table of contents first. The table of contents is usually divided into several parts, each part is divided into several chapters, and there are even smaller chapters in each chapter, which constitutes the content of a book. How to improve Wushu routines is not the way to improve reading. Then, Zhang Yukai suddenly realized and mastered reading skills!

Find a sense of accomplishment in life in sports? Zhang Yukai had such an experience. When he was in college, he read the social cognitive psychologist Bandura (Albert? Bandura) put forward "self-efficacy", and he realized that "past successful experience" is one of the aspects of the origin of self-efficacy. Only then did he realize that he was not necessarily a martial arts genius, but realized that he was useful from practicing martial arts constantly, shaped his self-confidence in his sense of accomplishment in martial arts, changed his psychological state and moved towards a different life, which also opened the way for him to learn sports psychology.

"When I was a child, I got 90 points in the geography exam, which is always a rare good result for me. When I shared it with my teacher happily, he replied, "Why didn't you get 100?" The teacher may be afraid that I will get carried away, but I only feel the inferiority of "I will never be good enough and my ability is insufficient". I didn't get a sense of accomplishment in all subjects until I realized that I was useful in martial arts. So I am very grateful to my parents for being willing to make me stupid until I am 20 years old, instead of letting me give up studying right away. Zhang Yuxi said.

Some people may not get academic achievements, but they can gain confidence from other fields. For Zhang Yukai, exercise is the key to his sense of accomplishment, from which he internalizes his life trajectory one by one.

Therefore, when he was studying for a master's degree at the Institute of Sports Science of Taipei Institute of Physical Education, he was encouraged by the guidance professor Hong Congmin to publish papers abroad. At that time, most of the students who could publish papers abroad were teachers rather than graduate students, but Professor Hong encouraged him to publish papers in Australia and Greece, which opened Zhang Yukai's eyes and made him determined to become a scholar. In 2004, he went to the University of North Carolina at Greensburg in the United States to study for a doctorate. He studied fitness and cognition under American guidance professor annear Neal, which prompted him to bring the research results of sports and sports psychology back to Taiwan Province Province, China after graduation.

In 2009, Zhang Yukai began to study the differences between "long-term fitness exercise" and "one-off fitness exercise" in cognitive functions such as perception, learning, memory, reasoning and decision-making. Based on brain science, he published more than 100 academic papers in just ten years through interdisciplinary integration. He hopes to spread these achievements in the future, so that everyone can draw the most effective "fitness exercise prescription" according to their physical condition.

How to exercise is the best for brain cognitive function? Zhang Yukai said that although the physical condition of the participants needs to be evaluated, on the whole, moderate-intensity exercise, that is, 60% to 75% of the maximum heart rate, may be the best. The maximum heart rate can be subtracted from 220 and multiplied by 60% to 75% to get the best heart rate during exercise. For a 30-year-old adult, the heartbeat per minute is about 1 15- 145. As for the types of exercise, aerobic exercise, resistance exercise and even Tai Ji Chuan's multi-directional comprehensive exercise are all beneficial to cognitive function.

After returning to Taiwan, Zhang Yukai won the honors of the International Sports Psychology Association, the North American Sports Psychology Association, the Wu Dayou Memorial Award of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Outstanding Research Award of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Youth Medal. It is worth mentioning that the United States dominated the authoritative scientific report of the Physical Activity Policy Advisory Committee in 20 18, and also quoted the research content of Zhang Yukai's "Research on Fitness Cognition" as the latest American citizen.

The future is the world of performance psychology? Besides research, Zhang Yukai is also an out-and-out athlete. He has won the national Tai Ji Chuan, Xingyiquan, Bagua Palm championship and runner-up, as well as many international Wushu championships in the United States. 20 15 won the world silver medal in the 14th World Wushu Championship on behalf of Taiwan Province Province of China.

Zhang Yukai, who began to teach boxing in the second year of high school, also founded the "Bagua Taiji Fitness Wushu Club" when he went to the United States to study for a doctorate, and received many foreign disciples. Whenever he has the opportunity to return to the United States, he will take time to return to the Dojo to teach. This year, he also set up the "Eight Diagrams Guiding Body and Mind Art and Literature Center" in Taiwan Province Province, China, integrating the past backgrounds in sports science, brain science and China Wushu, and creating the course of "Four Bodies and Two Arts Beauty (Fitness, Self-defense, Self-cultivation and Tattooing Beauty)" based on brain science, hoping to improve the public's physical health, psychological well-being and "happy life" of spiritual art and literature! ?

Convinced that "if you can't use it, how can you teach others?" ! Zhang Yukai also deeply understands that the pressure of athletes on the field will lead to poor performance, so in the process of training athletes to improve their psychological quality, he will also bring various sports psychological skills, such as relaxation training, goal setting, self-dialogue, image training, etc., so that athletes can give full play to their advantages in the competition. In the future, Zhang Yukai also hopes to bring psychological training on the sports field into other fields. ?

"Every field will have its own pressure. For example, employees will inevitably have pressure before briefing. Sports psychological training is evolving into' performance psychology', which will guide athletes how to reach the top and apply it to people who want to succeed in other fields. Zhang Yuxi said. He also uses these skills to balance teaching, scientific research and sports, so that he can be quiet. He also hopes to apply more sports psychology skills to other fields in the future, so that modern people can perform better in a stressful life. ?