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Cristiano Ronaldo Soccer Workout and Diet
Christiano Ronaldo is one of the fittest looking, ripped and toned soccer players around. He actually has better muscle definition than David Beckham. He is obviously not an average player. So, how does Christiano Ronaldo workout to get such a fit, toned and athletic body?
Christiano Ronaldo (full name Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro), like most players in the UK premiership league, follows a strict football training regime, five days per week. Footballers can receive fines and pay deductions, as well as being placed on the bench, if they miss training sessions. However, dedicated players will also supplement the team training with additional workouts, usually of a weight training variety.
Footballers need to combine all the main elements of fitness – endurance, strength, speed, agility and flexibility. Football training lasts for approximately three hours per day, and includes all of these aspects, as well as game skills, tactics, set plays and practice games.
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Christiano Ronaldo’s Training
Christiano Ronaldo’s training follows a similar pattern to David Beckham’s workouts, plus of course aspects of the following football specific training:
- Football Training Drills and Soccer Workouts
- Soccer / Football Dynamic Warmups
- Speed Training For Soccer Football Game
On pitch training includes intensive interval training, with emphasis on sprints and acceleration. Flexibility and agility are essential skills to help prevent injury. Typically sprints will be interspersed with bodyweight training, such as: press ups, sit ups and leg raises, with additional plyomteric exercises to develop power, such as star jumps, burpies and jumping squats and squat thrusts.
Weight training is generally restricted to building functional athletic strength, which means compound weight training exercises: squats, deadlifts, bench press, rows, lateral raises and curls. Cristiano Ronaldo also does a lot of abdominal exercises, such as leg raises, sit ups and crunches of various varieties to target all the abs. To get extra ripped Christiano must also perform a lot of lateral pull-downs, maybe pull ups and chin ups, as well as incline bench press and flyes. See here for more on strength training.
Christiano Ronaldo’s Diet
To get ripped muscles like Christiano Ronaldo requires a strict diet. Diet actually plays a more important role than exercise when muscle definition is concerned, as eating even just a little too much will lead to a layer of fat covering the muscles. To have a ripped body and a visible six pack, then body fat generally needs to be kept below 10%. For most people this involves restricting all sugars and junk food, and ensuring that only enough carbs are eating to maintain energy levels during football training and games, without overloading, which leads to accumulation of fat.
A typically lean footballers’ diet will be very similar to any other endurance athletes’ diet. Breakfast consists of cereals, fruits and juices. Lunch will be a healthy salad with chicken, or other lean meats. Dinner will be a more traditional meal, with fresh vegetables and fish, or something similar to lunch. Salads provide an excellent source of carbs. Junk foods, which is carb based food high in sugars and fats, have to be avoided as these lead to fat. Christiano Ronaldo has said that he does not eat junk food, and is not a big drinker either. When the rest of the team are out on the town, he is often found to be concentrating on resting, in readiness for the next game, or the next football training session.
Professional footballers will also take supplements to ensure that they have adequate protein in their diet to maintain muscle tone, as well as enough carbs to keep energy levels up during the three hour practices sessions. Without adequate nutrition it is not possible to complete a strict football training schedule, as well as play for 90 minutes in a game. All players at the top of their game have to maintain excellent fitness and Christiano Ronaldo also manages to keep his body exceptionally toned.
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Cristiano Ronaldo has been named the Fifa World Player of the Year for 2008.
On receiving his reward he said:
“It’s an overwhelming moment in my career and I’d like to dedicate this award to my family, friends and colleagues.”
me encanta cristiano ronaldo. eres muy deportista y sabroso;]
[for those that do not speak Spanish, this means "I love Cristiano Ronaldo. Athletic and very tasty" - the editor]
ronaldo is the best player in the world
People who say messi is, need an update
because WHO WON THE FIFA PLAYER OF
THE YEAR!
low body fat, and little bit of muscle should do the trick. normaly should take like 3-6 month to get cristianos body, depending on how much muscle you got, and how much fat. “Fat” guys can take years, but if your slim and only needs the muscle it’ll take like 3-6 month.