06:30 Breakfast: milk and / or yogurt, cereal, fresh fruit ...07:00 Massage to revitalize and warm the muscles08:30 Warm-upDuring the day the pilot s drink carbohydrates, which are an excellent way to hydrate your body and provide energy without interfering with digestion.Technical Briefing 9:00 followed by promotional activitiesPreferably, the lunch should be taken 4 hours before the start of the race, but usually it is difficult to coordinate with the agenda of race day. Thus, the pilots choose to:10:30 A slight portion of pasta and soup with vegetables11:00 Rest and may even sleep11:40 30 minutes of massage for muscle reactivation12:15 Prepare to enter the car13:00 Start of the race
At the end of the race, new briefing and promotional activities, followed by relaxing massage and a meal focused on recovery of protein and vitamins lost.
According to BMW, Robert Kubik lost six pounds during the winter period before the start of the 2009 season , cutting the bulk of their diet and increasing fish consumption.
Apparently, this loss has allowed the team to use the corresponding weight in ballast distributing it in the car in order to complete the 605 kg minimum weight, more efficiently.
Kubica's diet is not common to other pilots. In fact every driver follows his own diet, designed to fill all areas of nutrition the human body, especially those that are more in focus in this activity.
It is often said that the pilots burn enough calories to make it possible to eat "anything". However this is not so.
Keeping your body healthy is a state priority, especially for the effort expended for nearly two hours of intense racing.
Gabriele Polcari for Renault, says flexibility is important in the diet, because forcing a driver to eat foods that do not like, it is also counterproductive.
Each pilot has a regime so tailored to your needs.
Essentially the pilots need protein, making it part of the diet of white meats and eggs. Carbohydrates are also needed, especially during the training, and the pasta and bread included in the diet.
Grains, fruits and vegetables provide vitamins and fiber core, having always in mind that everything should be eaten in the right amount, w ithout the excesses of one or another type of food.Although alcohol is discouraged, a glass of wine can sometimes be allowed.
Like any top-level sport, riders also have to adjust your eating habits by, for example, eat more often and in smaller amounts in each, allowing for better digestion and absorption of nutrients, and the dinner lighter meals, typically fish and vegetables.
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