Although the Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo will be 35 years old on the fifth of next month, he enjoys high physical fitness and an ideal athletic body that has enabled him to continue to the highest level until now, due to his strict diet and the division of his sleep periods.
The newspaper "Daily Mail" British that Juventus star follows many tricks and techniques to be at his best, as his diet is based on eating small amounts of food but is divided into six meals a day, to meet the high food demand of being a football player, and support the metabolism Fast that most athletes should enjoy.
The Portuguese star has been hiring a nutritionist since he was a player in Manchester United, when he wanted the diet to give him explosive muscles and a low-fat sports body.
It depends on eating whole grains, fresh fruits and lean proteins found in fresh fish, in addition to many salads, and at breakfast it deals with cheese, low-fat milk, fruit juice and avocado.
Chicken is one of Ronaldo's magical foods because it is rich in protein and low in fat, and he avoids soft drinks, red meat and frozen foods.
He also adopts the theory of sleep for short periods several times per day, as he does not sleep for eight consecutive hours until the days of his vacation, and believes that the ideal for a professional athlete is to divide this time by five times per day by sleeping ninety minutes at a time.
Also, continuous training is one of Ronaldo's most important means to build his muscles and maintain his physical fitness, where he trains permanently according to a specific program, and also gets the recovery periods necessary to restore his physical and mental activity.