Fit like Cristiano Ronaldo: his drastic sleep method is designed to regenerate the body optimally
Created: 2022-02-23Updated: 2022-02-23, 11:08 am
By: Juliane Gutmann
Well rested and therefore in a good mood?
Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United before the game against Chelsea in 2021. © Paul Terry/dpa
Top athletes usually follow sophisticated training plans.
Professional soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo also relies on a sophisticated sleep concept.
Lots of exercise, a balanced diet and sufficient relaxation phases: in order to stay healthy, nobody has to perform at their best.
It is different in professional sports.
If you want to earn your living as a soccer player, for example, you usually have to do more than just do sports from time to time
.
Some do it because their club demands it of them, while others have the sheer joy of optimizing their body and performance.
Cristiano Ronaldo, a Portuguese footballer who currently plays for Manchester United, is reportedly in the latter category.
Whether training, nutrition or sleep: Ronaldo should leave nothing to chance in order to be able to convince on the soccer field.
According to the portal goal.com
, when it comes to regeneration, Ronaldo trusts
none other than Nick Littlehales, chairman of the British Sleep Council.
The sleep expert is said to have advised the professional footballer on a very special sleep concept so that his body can regenerate optimally.
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Cristiano Ronaldo shouldn't sleep in one go, but should sleep in phases throughout the day
“Cristiano is a perfectionist of the body.
For him, being at the top is an obsession.
As soon as he met me, he asked me how I could help him," Littlehales is quoted as saying by
GQ magazine
.
He then advised Ronaldo to no longer aim for the eight hours of sleep per night,
but rather the so-called polyphasic one
to establish a sleep model
.
Here you don't sleep your six to nine hours at a time, but divide the sleep episodes over the day and night.
In Cristiano Ronaldo's case, the sleep model looks like this: he spreads his sleep phases over 24 hours and takes six ninety-minute naps.
Why should that be good?
According to sleep expert Nick Littlehales, prolonged sleep creates unnatural rhythms.
The short sleep units, on the other hand, would help to ensure better recovery between training units
, as
goal.com
informs.
In addition, the split sleep causes better digestion of the six meals that Ronaldo eats throughout the day, it is said.
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