Phelps attributed most of his success to training. After graduating from high school, most of the time, I started training for two and a half hours at 7: 00 in the morning, took a nap after lunch, and then went swimming from 3: 30 to 6: 00 in the afternoon. In short, he swims 12 miles every day. He said, "I know no one trains harder than me." Phelps trains so hard because he hates failure. He started swimming at the age of seven, but he didn't take the sport seriously until 1 1 year-old coach Bowman talked with his parents. He recalled: "If I didn't play my best, I would always think about it and be with my friends at school." This will drive me crazy. "On one occasion, 12-year-old Phelps lost to a boy of the same age. He angrily grabbed each other's goggles and threw them across the platform of the swimming pool. Coach Bowman told him that if he lost to a child of his own age next time, he would not allow similar behavior. Bowman said, "He overcame this bad habit because he never lost to any swimmer of his age. "Genius = hard work+paranoia. Of course, talent without hard work will not become a genius, which is best explained by Phelps. " If you take a day off, your strength will go back two days. "This is Phelps' motto and the wise words given to him by his coach. Phelps always believed that "if you waste two days, you may never get it back." For a long time, he insisted on the habit of getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning, which was unimaginable. He is so paranoid that Phelps is nicknamed "the morning star" on the American swimming team. What is even more amazing is Phelps' perseverance. In the past seven years, he hasn't been in the water for only five days out of more than 2,500 days. It is in this almost paranoid effort that Phelps has made impressive achievements. Bob is Phelps' swimming coach ~ ~ Many people are surprised by Phelps' eight gold medals. Only his coach, Bowman, said nothing and was all smiles. He was called "training madman" by Phelps. 1996, Bob Baumann, as the coach of the North Baltimore Swimming Club, discovered Phelps, a short, skinny boy with an unparalleled sense of water. Within a year, Bowman told Debbie and Fred that their son could take part in the Olympic Games one day, and they should consider letting him give up baseball and hockey and spend more time training swimming in the morning. Phelps protested loudly: "You are ruining my life. I spend 90% of my time swimming. What else do you want from me? " Phelps protested loudly: "You are ruining my life. I spend 90% of my time swimming. What else do you want from me? " Bowman let him go, and he spent a year training twice in the morning and afternoon. Bowman has a hobby-training horse racing. In his view, Phelps is like a brilliant but unruly little wild horse. However, it is much easier to train people than horses. Bowman found the joy of training in Phelps: "If we train horses like people, the horses will be finished at once." Phelps, on the other hand, endured a training mode that even horses could not accept. Bowman likes to play many painful new tricks in the training class. Hypoxia breathing training, that is, holding your breath, can only raise your head for air at a specific time and place before swimming. Phelps didn't like it: "It's terrible. After swimming 20 times in the swimming pool, you barely climbed onto the starting platform, and your head was as dizzy as being punched several times, and you couldn't stand up. " Training before preparing for the Beijing Olympic Games is also called devil training. In Colorado, the American swimming team is training camp at an altitude of 1800 meters. Bowman led several disciples to train there. Phelps complained: "We have to complete 70 trainings in 24 days. My teammate Eric Wende and I were stupid and said, Oh, my God, that's impossible. You must be joking! Are you going to toss us to death? " In the later period, all the players became nervous and learned to walk against the wall, and no one could hit them, because everyone was as flammable and explosive as firecrackers. It is this extreme training method that makes Phelps step by step toward magic. Whenever Phelps is in a bad mood or in a low state, Bowman will enlighten him with a set of his own "banker theory": "You think of training as a bank. We are saving money now, and we will withdraw it in installments. You should take out all your money, every penny and every dollar and deposit it in the bank. Only when it comes to the game is the moment to cash in. "