Eteri Tutberidze: “Zagitova used to come to the rink at 8 a.m. and leave at 9-10 p.m. This was the only way for her to stay in shape. Why should I force her to continue? She got tired.”
Translation of Eteri Tutberidze’s comment about Alina Zagitova.
original source: Telegram Comment Show
Here’s a translation of Eteri Tutberidze’s comment explaining why Alina Zagitova isn’t competing in competitions made in a interview with Leonid Slutsky.
“Eteri Tutberidze: Take Alina Zagitova, for her to skate the way she did at the Olympics – even at the World Championships that she won afterward where she was already slightly out of shape. She used to come to the rink, without exaggeration, at 8 in the morning and leave the rink at 9-10 at night.
This is because all that time, she was either working in the gym – she had an hour and a half of physical training, then choreography, then the ice, followed by stretching, and then the gym again, followed by the ice, and again, physical training and cooldown. She lived in this regimen for a year and a half to stay at the top.
If she didn’t have such a schedule, she wouldn’t have been at the top?
Eteri Tutberidze: No, she wouldn’t have.
Was this the only option, basically?
Eteri Tutberidze: This was the only way for her to stay in shape. She had to practice very hard, very intensively. Just to have an hour and a half of choreography practice, she had to do an hour and a half of physical training with resistance bands and all the other exercises.
In such a regimen… Why should I force her to continue? She got tired. But in any other regimen, she wouldn’t achieve the same results. Should I force her to continue against her will?” Tutberidze said.
Related topics: Alina Zagitova, Eteri Tutberidze
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