The girl that Giddens once pursued relied on hard breathing practice to win her favor

Giddens, the best-selling author who gained fame for directing the film You Are the Apple of My Eye, is the spokesperson for the Tung Foundation's "Active Youth Development Program". Today, he was surrounded by a large group of enthusiastic female students at Jinou Girls' High School, showing his high popularity. He also shared his own sports experience and the benefits of continuous exercise in relieving stress in a humorous manner.

Giddens Giddens talked about his childhood fun of exercising and how he usually relieves stress through continuous exercise. (Photography by Jiang Wenyi)

Giddens, who looks gentle and wears black-framed glasses, was not good at sports originally, but he developed the habit of jogging every day after a period of accumulation. He said that he could not even finish 400 meters at first, but because he was going to serve in the army in Chenggongling, the starting training was 3,000 meters. He was afraid that he would become a topic of jokes among netizens after dinner, so from that day on, he started to practice running very seriously in the stadium in Baguashan. He said that after he got used to running 3,000 meters, he felt a sense of accomplishment. Until he went to Chenggongling to serve in the army, he was no longer an ordinary runner.

Giddens said that he is very lucky and that he has almost never lacked creativity and inspiration in his life. He also believes that it is not difficult to have inspiration, but it may take several months to turn it into a story, so he believes that perseverance is more important than creativity.

He also revealed that in order to teach a girl he liked how to swim in school, he practiced breathing very hard and kept trying every way to float to the surface. In the end, he learned it in an afternoon. Although he was still too late in the end and did not catch the girl, he also joked, "Exercise is really important because you never know when you will need it in your life."

Maybe exercise is not difficult, but it is not easy to keep going. Giddens said that his own experience is enough to illustrate this. The process from being a complete novice in sports to becoming proficient in it in the end means that sports can be trained and cultivated, but it must be accumulated with perseverance. Maybe he will be very out of breath and his heart is about to explode when running at the beginning, but he also believes that the fruits obtained by enduring the painful process will become completely his own. He also said that no matter before filming or writing, he would run to wake up his brain and maintain his physical strength to get through every period of frustration he might encounter.

The "Active Youth Development Program" promoted by the Tung Foundation has recently announced that the results of the second phase have exceeded the 5.87 million circles of the first phase, and the total results have reached 6 million circles. Among the 20 participating schools, an average of 300,000 circles per school have been achieved. Through the youth sports short film jointly produced by the Tung Foundation and the Vital Foundation, we loudly call on young people to continue exercising no matter what obstacles they encounter.

According to the latest research published by the University of London in the European Journal of Psychological Research, it takes an average of 66 days for a person to develop a habit. Research from Duke University in the United States also pointed out that if depressed patients exercise continuously for six months, the relapse rate of depression is only 8%, while that of those who do not exercise is 38%. The effect is more obvious after 10 months. Giddens also called on young people to develop a habit of exercising continuously for 66 days so that they can continue to be full of fighting spirit in life.