In the coaching staff of professional athletes, another vacancy is increasingly appearing - a nutritionist. They plan athletes' menus down to the gram, choose foods and diets for them, and compose a sports diet for champions. Everyone has their own secrets. "KP" reveals them
What does the first beauty of Russian sports Yulia Efimova eat? How does a fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov manage to lose 10-15 kg before a fight? What does Formula 1 pilot Daniil Kvyat eat to fit in a small car and withstand huge g-forces? We tell.
Ronaldo: cod on holidays
When Cristiano Ronaldo moved to Juventus in the summer, Italian doctors were shocked: there was no excess fat in the body of the famous football player. Without exaggeration - not a gram! To understand this, athletes are given certain tests, measuring body composition, and it turned out that Krish has a body fat of only 7%! (usually footballers have this figure of 10-11%), and muscles make up 50% of all Ronaldo! And of course, everyone was wondering what a 33-year-old Portuguese eats to stay in such a shock
It turned out that Cristiano eats 6 times a day, and does not consume sugar and alcohol at all. But his diet is full of vegetables and seafood. And most of it is grilled. And the standard menu for the day at Ronaldo looks quite simple:
Breakfast Juice, eggs (but only proteins!), cereal
Lunch Whole wheat pasta, green vegetables, baked potatoes, chicken fillet
Snack Tuna Roll with Fruit Juice/Lemon Juice
Dinner Chicken breast or turkey with rice, beans, fruit
And Cristiano Ronaldo loves cod, and its special kind is bacalao. It is very salty, and not to say that it is completely healthy, and it has a lot of calories. So Krish cannot afford to eat such fish too often, he generally has a rule - no more than 3000 kcal per day!
Kvyat's secret
You know that many riders are small in stature? Danill Kvyat, who returns to the Formula 1 tracks next year, is a rare exception. But with a prohibitively large height of 1.87 for this sport, his weight is only 60 kg! This is because the cars in Formula 1 are very strictly weighed, and Daniil has to do a lot in order not to take on those extra pounds.
Kvyat's diet was made up of well-known nutritionists. And they have a golden rule: 70% of the products must be of high quality and natural, 15% is something that Kvyat may not really like, but something that is healthy, and another 15% is something for the soul.
And Kvyat's menu for the competition day looks like this:
Breakfast Omelet from 3 eggs, vegetable slices, oatmeal with nuts and berries, water, coffee
Lunch Chicken, quinoa (cereal), broccoli, avocado, berries, water
Snack Protein shake, yogurt with nuts and berries, water
Dinner Salad, potatoes, fish (salmon), water, tea (no caffeine!)
But even with such a menu, Formula 1 pilots manage to lose several kilos of weight per race!
The cyclist Ilnur Zakarin has the same problem. With a height of 189 cm, it weighs only 64 kg - it is more difficult to pull uphill with a bicycle. But at the same time, you have to rewind hundreds of kilometers a day along the highway! Where to get strength?
“A cook goes with us to the race, he selects the menu: what to eat before, what after the race,” says Ilnur. - Plus, my wife is a nutritionist, helps to eat right. In the morning, be sure to long carbohydrates. We eat pasta every day - three hours before the start. Tea, coffee, anything. After the race, be sure to have muesli or rice. Pasta again in the evening. It turns out that we basically eat only pasta for the whole month of the race. For dinner, be sure to have meat or fish, chicken.