Lauri Markkanen told GQ in a recent interview with eating habits.Chicago Bulls Lauri Markkanen has done this season with 18.9 points per game and collected an average of nine rebounds. EPA / AOP
NBA players ‘ eating habits are particularly recently been featured in the american media. Sports site The Athleticin a recent article describes how the players may not eat any junk food before matches.
Some people eat these deep-fried chicken fingers and French fries and went to play. I’ve seen how some people drink hitollinen amount of coffee and are fine. It sees a lot of different things, the Miami heat’s Kelly Olynyk to tell The Athleticille.
Olynyk recently told the loan that he had his teammate Josh Richardson in the locker room seven dollars before the Dallas Mavericks in the match. Richardson wanted to eat.
we all Know that Josh needs fries before the match.
have been told to eat the four-course steak dinner in the locker room before the match while playing the heat in the early 2000s. the LeBron James was often seen chewing on the variable of McDonald’s food in Miami-years.
Markkanen routine
Chicago Bulls 21-year-old Lauri Markkanen I swear to healthy and organic food produced in the name of. Markkanen has previously also told to give up their red meat eating.
the Finnish tell eating habits in a recent GQ magazine published an interview with.
Markkanen typical game-day menu is as follows:
I Have a routine that we eat along with oatmeal in the morning at home. Because I’m away so much, we always try to find family time, Markkanen to start.
– after That I went to the gym and I eat omelet with spinach and mushrooms – no cheese or meat. Eat a protein shake with oats. If you need carbs, I eat waffles or pancakes, so I can get my weight to keep up. Game of the day after practice I eat a light pasta salad and take a nap.
after That, when I wake up, I eat pasta and chicken with tomato sauce. Then I’m ready for a fight. After I order something from the kitchen, whatever makes the mind at the moment. Normally it is something with salmon and sweet potatoes-like, Markkanen says.
GQ-magazine editor Christopher Accommodations asks how Brown ended health food eater.
in Finland, eat healthy food, so I grew up eating them.
private chef
Food is a huge importance as peak tuning at the professional environment, where Markkanen is doing its job.
we Talk with my wife about it constantly. Now when I’m in the NBA, I have enough time to plan my meal. I really tried to focus on professionalism. I think it’s around-the-clock thing. Can do all kinds of back order, but I think sleep and nutrition are the most important thing.
Many NBA star has hired himself a personal chef. Markkanen is not, at least not yet.
I don’t have to cook, because my wife and I we like cooking, but I will consider it next season.
Accommodations will be amazed that it is seen Markkanen fair number of the grocery store.
– All say to me that: ”you can’t visit a grocery store in that way here”. But I try to live as normally as possible. I, my wife and our baby we go together to Whole Foods (the american organic food specialized trade). Therefore, I haven’t needed to cook, because we like to cook. It is important that I take care of my body and I love that I get to be with my family at the same time, Markkanen reasons.
Nine extra pounds
Last summer, a 213-foot Markkanen had to cram themselves in calories and protein. His weight increased nine pounds for the current and last season.
at the beginning of Summer I wasn’t running much. I lifted weights and ate a lot. And the meals were bigger. Evening snack instead of eating a whole meal. I did not have any stage of hunger. I ate, even though I was already full. There were moments when it doesn’t do any think to eat, but I know that it is best for my body.
– currently, my weight has dropped, because the schedule is so tight. It is one of the things that I need to work on, especially next year, because I think I’m going to raise my weight also next summer. I have to keep my diet also during the season, so my weight stays the same, and I need to repeat the process every summer, Markkanen wonders.
the Game runs press anakin.
the Funny thing is that I still feel lighter. Even if I play seven pounds heavier, it has accumulated mostly on my feet, and I’m still running the same way. I weighed 109 pounds early in the season. Now I press 106,5, which is still better than to 100.5 pounds, which I weighed in last season at the end, Markkanen said.
Markkanen GQ magazine interview told me in Finland, first Helsinki Say.
the evening paper met Lauri Markkanen in December.
