Mios Raonic Explains How Nutrition Has Helped Him Become A Better Tennis Player

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Former World No. 3 Milos Raonic says he has become much more careful about his diet in the past few years which has helped his fitness as well as his game on the court.

Speaking to the ATP Tour website, Roanic says he has added a nutritionist to his team for the past few years. "Every single step [of my career] I’ve always asked myself, ‘What can I do better?’ I reached that point in 2013 when just before the season, that’s where I thought I could make the most impact. I asked the people I was working with, my team, they felt that’s something I could give attention to and I could reap benefits from. When I started it was, ‘How can I clean stuff up? How can I be more efficient?’ Then over the past few years when I’ve had a lot of injuries, it’s been, 'What have I been lacking or what might I be missing or what do I need to do better to stay healthy?' I think each time it’s been conformed to a specific issue that I’m trying to solve or I’m trying to fix or improve. I think that’s where it’s sort of stepped from the approach we take to the solution we are looking for."

Raonic says his diet includes skipping desserts and eating red meat less often. "Skipping desserts. I have it every once in a while, but much more rarely: tiramisu. It’s by far my favourite dessert. I don’t eat red meat that often. Maybe once or twice every two weeks, and now a big part of it has been regimenting the times I eat. That is how quickly I’m eating after a match, and those kind of things. That’s what has changed a lot over the past period of time. It’s a lot more structured and so forth. I’ve struggled with a lot of different types of injuries, different issues with my back, a couple muscle tears over the past few years. It was about how can we fuel you and how can we give you the right kind of food that you need to keep your tissues and your body healthy and also functioning properly. [It's about] functioning efficiently to try to find a way to minimise those problems coming up. When I started on Tour I wasn’t a big fan of fish, probably back in 2010 or 2011. That’s something that I probably eat more than anything of. It’s something I go to quite often to have the source of protein throughout my day, pretty much almost daily. That’s one that’s changed quite a bit. There are different kinds of veggies and things that I’ve added, but I’d say fish was the one, because it is such a big part of what I consume nowadays. It’s probably the most significant change."

Raonic is not the only player to have incorporated a major change in his nutrition over the past few years. World No. 1 Novak Djokovic has also spoken widely about the benefits he received after going gluten-free and vegan in his diet.

from Tennis World USA https://ift.tt/2wAzacg

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