Being smart with that has helped me to make sure I’m peaking at the time of the race. For breakfast, it would be an omelet or porridge. I was just unnecessarily burning all this energy and by the time of the race, I was running on adrenaline. and already be bouncing off the walls and the race wasn’t until 2 p.m.
When I was young, I would wake up at 8 a.m. Through wisdom and experience, I’ve been much better at conserving my energy on race day. What’s a typical race day look like for you? Therefore, our immunity can get pretty low, so I swear by the immunity boosters. Because of the time zones, we’re always a bit sleep deprived. Now, I can pick and choose anything I want, whether it’s stuff to help with sleep, probiotics, or gut health supplements. It’s been awesome because with our schedule and going through different time zones, even with different countries having different air, that affects how the food is and that affects your gut health. The biggest difference in the offseason is I’ll probably enjoy a few beers with my friends and that diminishes during the season. If I do feel like I can enjoy a dessert, then I will and not feel too guilty about it. Ultimately, I just try and focus on balance. Through the season, I’ll just make sure that I’m keeping up with my greens, vitamins and making sure I get a lot of colors in my meals. I might put on a kilo here or there but I’m not someone that expands too much. I still have a pretty fast metabolism, fortunately. For sure, I’ll enjoy an extra burger, pizza, or have a few drinks. January and February is my time to turn it up.Īre there any drastic changes in your diet from the offseason to in season?įortunately, I’m not the kind of person to blow up in the offseason. At the end of the season, I’ll always give myself three weeks off around Christmas just to completely switch off and let my body recover. Once the season starts, it’s basically maintenance and making sure you’re staying on top of it. You don’t want to be forced to train on the days you should be recovering. You want to make sure you’re recovering as well. With our schedule now, we’re lucky if we get two days of training in a week because you’re traveling. If you don’t put the prep into the preseason and build that base, you’re just playing catch up the whole year. You nailed it: we don’t have time during the season. Given how busy the season is for you guys, how important is the offseason and preseason to building your foundation for the season? It’s a vulnerable place to be if you get to that point. Once your neck is fatigued, it’s like a switch and you can’t push it anymore. If you’re in the gym and you’re doing a bench press, you can always squeeze one more rep out. The neck is also a muscle that when it goes, it’s gone. How I explain it to someone is it’s literally like someone is pushing against your head and you’re trying to keep your head straight and not fall over. How would you describe the feeling in your neck when you’re turning a long corner at 150 mph? We’ll do about five sets of that probably every two days.
My trainer will pull it and we’ll do 30 repetitions on each side and front and back. We can do that for about an hour and then we’ll have the harness to do repetitions. You can do some long holds to build your base muscles. We can do a bunch of preparation and training, but it still won’t be the same as driving the car. The crazy thing is the best way to train our necks is driving F1 because nothing can really replicate that.
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Just before he raced to his stunning victory at the Italian Grand Prix-his first win since 2018, and the first for his McLaren team since 2012- GQ caught up with the 32-year-old driver on starting his day with some dynamic stretches, the importance of having a strong neck, and how he handles the physical toll placed on his body during race day. Driving an F1 car, you don’t really have an understanding of that." You can run, get on a football pitch, play basketball, and feel the physical demands of it. It’s not a sport you can just get up and do. I don’t know why you call yourselves athletes.’ It’s hard to relate-I don’t hold it against anyone. “It’s like, ‘Oh yeah, I drive to work every day. “The only thing people can relate it to is driving to work,” Ricciardo said. Ricciardo has eight wins and 32 podiums under his belt, and says that while it might look simple on television, a Grand Prix isn’t a trip to the grocery store. The Australian Formula 1 star knows this, and doesn’t bother to get upset about the misconceptions around the physical toll of race car driving. There is nothing the average Joe can do to replicate what Daniel Ricciardo’s body experiences on race day.
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