Everyone’s doing it. Getting fit, that is. As such, so do ever-more stories of inspiration hit the headlines. In our very own Jiangsu Province, two ladies are dominating the media these days, with their each very different tales of working out and getting fit.
每个人都在这样做。健身，就是这样。因此，越来越多的灵感故事登上了头条新闻。在我们江苏省，两位女士最近占据了媒体的主导地位，她们各自讲述了截然不同的锻炼和健身故事。
Ms Wang is a bus driver in Suqian City in northern Jiangsu with quite the daily routine. She’s up at 04:50 and out for a run, usually 5-10 kilometres. That’s unless she’s on the night shift, when she’ll instead run in the evening.
王女士是苏北宿迁市的一名公交车司机，日常生活很规律。她04:50起床，出去跑步，通常是5-10公里。除非她上夜班，否则她会在晚上跑步。
But that which has captured people’s attention is what Wang gets up to on her bus during her break. And when we say “up”, we mean literally “up”. For after dusting down the seats ready for her return drive, Wang puts the rest of the break to good use. And the bus too, for that matter.
但引起人们注意的是王女士在休息时间在公交车上所做的事情。当我们说“向上”时，我们的意思是字面上的“向上”。在掸掉座位上的灰尘准备返程后，王充分利用了剩下的休息时间。就此而言，还有公共汽车。
Those safety railings that her passengers shall very soon be clinging onto also happen to make for Wang’s improvised gym. Think parallel bars, balance beam and high bar; the assortment of moves Wang is capable of on her bus would make any gymnast proud.
乘客很快就会抓住的那些安全栏杆也恰好是王的临时健身房的用途。想想双杠、平衡木和高杆；王在她的巴士上能够做出各种各样的动作，这会让任何体操运动员感到自豪。
Interested readers may watch Wang going through her paces in a video released yesterday, 30 August, by media outlet, The Paper, via this link.
有兴趣的读者可以通过此链接观看媒体机构澎湃新闻于昨天（8 月 30 日）发布的视频中王女士的脚步。
A bit south of Suqian, in Huai’an in central Jiangsu, we then find Pang Shijie, a 37-year-old woman who used to weigh 100 kilograms. Now a bodybuilding champion, she has also recently been admitted to the Nanjing Institute of Physical Education (NIPE) as a graduate student majoring in sports training. This is the combination of factors that have brought about her trending on Weibo.
在宿迁以南一点的江苏中部淮安市，我们找到了庞世杰，一位 37 岁的女性，体重曾经达到 100 公斤。现在是健美冠军的她，最近还考入了南京体育学院（NIPE），成为运动训练专业的研究生。这是她在微博上走红的综合因素。
Pang, a Chinese teacher in a primary school in Huai’an, began gaining weight after giving birth to two children.
庞是淮安市一所小学的语文老师，生完两个孩子后体重开始增加。
Seeking to do something about it, Pang resorted to some extreme methods at first. She ran frantically and often didn’t eat, which led to physical weakness, swollen knees and tendinitis. She was worse off, not better.
为了解决这个问题，庞一开始采取了一些极端的方法。她疯狂地跑步，经常不吃饭，导致身体虚弱，膝盖肿胀，还出现肌腱炎。她的处境更糟，而不是更好。
In 2014, she came across a scientific fitness diet and gradually fell in love with sports. “At that time, I understood that only sports and this diet could help me lose weight in a healthy way, so I often went to the gym after work and stayed for several hours”, said Pang in a report published by The World Journal.
2014年，她接触到了科学的健身饮食，并逐渐爱上了运动。 “当时我明白，只有运动和饮食才能帮助我健康减肥，所以我经常下班后去健身房，一待就是几个小时”，庞在《世界日报》发表的一篇报道中说道。
With the pounds soon coming off, Pang’s coach joked with her that she could enter a bodybuilding competition.
随着体重很快下降，庞的教练开玩笑说她可以参加健美比赛。
And so it was that in April 2017, Pang came to Nanjing to participate in a fitness and bodybuilding invitational. She was placed sixth in the bikini section. She trained harder and just 2 months later was first in the bikini section of the Huai’an Fitness and Bodybuilding Championships. She has also won various awards in fitness and bodybuilding competitions in places such as Guangzhou and Sanya.
就这样，2017年4月，庞某来到南京参加健身健美邀请赛。她在比基尼组中排名第六。她刻苦训练，仅两个月后就获得了淮安市健身健美锦标赛比基尼组第一名。她还在广州、三亚等地的健身健美比赛中获得过各种奖项。
Pang also said that after completing her master’s degree at NIPE, she plans on perhaps doing a PhD. On education, she said, “I don’t study for the purpose of lengthening my professional title or getting anything. I just enjoy the fun of learning. It brings me a lot of happiness”.
庞还表示，在 NIPE 完成硕士学位后，她可能计划攻读博士学位。谈到教育，她说，“我学习不是为了提高职称，也不是为了得到什么。我只是享受学习的乐趣，它给我带来了很多快乐”。
