Halep reveals daily routine during Coronavirus lockdown

Simona Halep is one of the best female tennis players in the world but what happens when a big pandemic happens like Coronavirus and a normal daily routine of a top level sports star is taken away.

Halep spoke to the Garantat show recently about how it has now changed due to the ongoing situation which has seen not only tennis cancelled for a number of months but normal activity with most people now in lockdown.

“I am in my apartment in Bucharest. I sleep pretty much something I could not do in the past because I have always had a schedule. I admit that I go to bed a little later, around 11-12 PM, but I sleep until 10, 10.30. In the past I wasn’t sleeping past 8.30-9, but not because I couldn’t. Mentally, knowing that I had a program for the day, I was waking up without an alarm. Now I can sleep without an alarm because I know I know that I can make my own schedule”, said Halep.

“I eat a late breakfast around 11 and, after that, I get outdoors across the complex. I go running because that is my job and I need to keep fit. After that, I do my body exercises: abs, back, legs, everything I can inside the house.

"I run around 20-25 minutes, but progressively I want to run for one hour in one go. I don’t usually run too much, but this is the only way I can keep my fitness up. In the house I do push-ups, crunches, back exercises – because I have spinal problems, herniated discs – squats, lunges, exactly what I did when I was a child. I also read a lot and watch movies”.

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