Alina Zagitova/interview: Only strong people remain in sport. You can learn a lot from them.

Thanks for posting this!
Tinami Amori said:
Have you changed a lot this season?

– Of course, I have much more experience. This made me stronger mentally. I began to listen more to myself, what I should do, how to behave during the warm-up. What should I change, remove, add … I began to control myself in food – if yesterday I drank more water than I needed, then the next day I should drink less… I began to pay more attention to some things, not just go to the ice – skated and you’re free.
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Wtf this entire quote. It's very obvious she's far too obsessed with dieting between this quote and what she said about dieting and puberty. And how the heck can you drink too much water unless you have kidney/heart failure or you're trying realllllly hard to do so (I think it's >10 liters in the span of a couple hours for adverse health events to occur)? In fact athletes should be drinking a lot of water! Most I know (skaters, cross-country runners, swimmers, hikers, etc.) swear by drinking at least 5 liters of water a day for health and optimal performance reasons. It appears Team Eteri and Alina need some serious education about healthy eating and hydration.
 
Tinami Amori said:
Moreover, if I had won the World Championships, then who knows what would have happened? But now I had a motivation to go further.
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Well, Alina's definitely right about the importance of having 'a motivation to go further.' If she'd won OGM and WC in her first senior season after having won WJC the previous season, what's really left to prove for someone so young too? Sorry for Alina that she experienced 'emptiness' inside at her first World championships. But yes, every skater has to go through ups and downs. Those who don't experience the downs at major competitions are lucky. Starting out the Olympic season with such tension, and the need for focus, it's certainly understandable to feel empty and have nothing left in the tank after attaining such a huge goal of OGM at the penultimate of your first senior season without having paid much newbie dues, except for hard work and singleminded focus.

Alina's a beautiful skater, but there's much more for her to experience and to understand in regard to developing artistry.

I suppose another upside is that Ev Medvedeva didn't win OGM in a difficult season where she struggled with injury and watched a young training mate phenom usurp her top-of-the-podium territory. Now skating fans will be lucky to hopefully see Medvedeva gain more experience, improve her technique and further nurture her artistry to maturity over the next four years. And perhaps this will happen along with Alina doing the same, if she remains motivated and hungry. :D

Thanks for sharing.
 
Willin said:
Thanks for posting this!

Wtf this entire quote. It's very obvious she's far too obsessed with dieting between this quote and what she said about dieting and puberty. And how the heck can you drink too much water unless you have kidney/heart failure or you're trying realllllly hard to do so (I think it's >10 liters in the span of a couple hours for adverse health events to occur)? In fact athletes should be drinking a lot of water! Most I know (skaters, cross-country runners, swimmers, hikers, etc.) swear by drinking at least 5 liters of water a day for health and optimal performance reasons. It appears Team Eteri and Alina need some serious education about healthy eating and hydration.
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I too found the comment about 'too much water' troubling.

Unless there were a medical condition involved, the only reason a person would be concerned about controlling their water intake would be to control water weight. Hydration is particularly important to an athlete.
 
My goodness, thank you for the article,
She says many of the same things Nadia says (in the oly channel special)|
Nadia had no idea of the impact of what she accomplished,
 
Willin said:
Thanks for posting this!

Wtf this entire quote. It's very obvious she's far too obsessed with dieting between this quote and what she said about dieting and puberty. And how the heck can you drink too much water unless you have kidney/heart failure or you're trying realllllly hard to do so (I think it's >10 liters in the span of a couple hours for adverse health events to occur)? In fact athletes should be drinking a lot of water! Most I know (skaters, cross-country runners, swimmers, hikers, etc.) swear by drinking at least 5 liters of water a day for health and optimal performance reasons. It appears Team Eteri and Alina need some serious education about healthy eating and hydration.
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That's a nutty assumption...... She said "if i drank too much water the day before, i control the intake the next day"..... How do you know she did not drink MORE than the required 5 liters, maybe 7 liters and now needs to take it easy? "too much" is subjective ...... :D
 
You can't really drink too much water, water won't transfer into fat. You'll just pee it out lol to drink less water the next day makes zero sense.

Actually, a dehydrated body will have less ability to lose fat than a body with a good water supply. That comment is totally upside down.
 
Her comment about not having “Star Dizziness” made me chuckle. Alina comes across as a sweet young lady who is very happy. Thanks for sharing the article.
 
I can remember Sasha Cohen expressing concern that she'd had too much water to drink prior to her free skate at 2010 Nationals. Maybe it's a thing skaters blame poor practices/performances on?
 
Per said:
You can't really drink too much water, water won't transfer into fat. You'll just pee it out lol to drink less water the next day makes zero sense.

Actually, a dehydrated body will have less ability to lose fat than a body with a good water supply. That comment is totally upside down.
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Skaters do have "liquid consumption regiments", you know..... :lol: it has partially to do with "not letting the liquid get out" during skating, especially for pairs and dance teams..... :D
 
Coco said:
I can remember Sasha Cohen expressing concern that she'd had too much water to drink prior to her free skate at 2010 Nationals. Maybe it's a thing skaters blame poor practices/performances on?
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I guess that would be sort of legit, since you can drink too much right before and it would hamper you. But to drink less the next day to make up for it is nonsensical.
 
@Tinami Amori I have literally never heard of that. The only "liquid consumption regiment" I've ever heard of is drinking 5 liters+ of water a day. As @Per said any extra water will be filtered out by the kidneys (and, in the case of athletes, some will be sweat out) and then eliminated through natural processes. The only way I could see her "drinking too much" and needing to cut down because it affected her skating is if she had to leave the ice every hour or two to use the bathroom, and she'd probably need to do that for ice cuts anyways.

@Coco @Per Maybe she was referring to the fact that many skaters (and performers in general) feel the need to use the bathroom right before competition because they're nervous. Maybe she drank so much water she was afraid it wasn't just the usual reflex!

Either way, a young healthy person drinking less the next day to make up for drinking too much the day before is so dumb you'd think it was a suggestion from Goop.
 
Per said:
You can't really drink too much water, water won't transfer into fat. You'll just pee it out lol to drink less water the next day makes zero sense.

Actually, a dehydrated body will have less ability to lose fat than a body with a good water supply. That comment is totally upside down.
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Actually, you can drink too much water. Then the level of salts in your blood drops and it can be fatal. Water intoxication.
 
@hanca But that requires some insane amount of water. As I wrote in my post above the low end number appears to be around 10 Liters in a couple hours, but it could take closer to 20 Liters+ in that amount of time. Somehow I doubt Alina is talking about drinking that much water, and with how sick she'd be I'd think she'd treat that by going to the hospital (if she didn't die sooner) not drinking less water the next day.
 
Willin said:
Either way, a young healthy person drinking less the next day to make up for drinking too much the day before is so dumb you'd think it was a suggestion from Goop.
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Well...... whatever "dumb" she is doing got her all the gold medals for the last 3 years, including Olympic gold.. And she does not look or act unhealthy.... :D

Skaters and athletes do have a liquid consumption regiment... it prevents "leaks" and "stains" during practice and competitions. That's why it is often so hard for them to produce a sample for a drug test right after an event.. ;)
 
I think you mean that they restrict how much liquids they take in before a competition? My DD eats almost nothing the day of a big competition until after.
 
scooter said:
I think you mean that they restrict how much liquids they take in before a competition? My DD eats almost nothing the day of a big competition until after.
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Exactly what i mean and also before practices sometimes. If Zag felt she had to go to the bathroom 3 times during practice, then she drank too much water..... :D
 
I can understand that if you drank a heap of water before you tried jumping that it would slosh around in your stomach and cause issues. But I would have thought good hydration at appropriate intervals of training - particularly during off ice training - would be a must. There are no calories in water. Isn't it actually a dieting trick to drink heaps of water because it fills you up?

Stuff like this makes you appreciate the passion of someone like Meagan Duhamel who studies nutrition and wants to spread the word on disciplined yet healthy dieting.
 
It's absurd to think how much water you drink doesn't affect your body. The water you drink doesn't all come out. Your organs also absorb some and that's extra weight, plus your face can get puffed up if you over hydrate yourself. All of this happens to normal people. Alina is growing taller and possibly has trouble keeping the jumps. Lowering some water intake to give herself a little room isn't weird. Many athletes cannot survive puberty because they can't get skills back in their new, heavier body. Let's not pretend you can do whatever you want in such a harsh sport.
 
@analia I... I... Is this a pseudoscience thing that's only prominent in non-American cultures? I mean, the US has a lot of dumb pseudoscience and health myths but I've never heard that one.

starrynight said:
I can understand that if you drank a heap of water before you tried jumping that it would slosh around in your stomach and cause issues. But I would have thought good hydration at appropriate intervals of training - particularly during off ice training - would be a must. There are no calories in water. Isn't it actually a dieting trick to drink heaps of water because it fills you up?

Stuff like this makes you appreciate the passion of someone like Meagan Duhamel who studies nutrition and wants to spread the word on disciplined yet healthy dieting.
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Yes! Good hydration is a must. Even mild dehydration leads to faster exhaustion, increased risk of injury, lower ability to concentrate, headache, fatigue, increased dizziness, etc. - all things that would be very detrimental for skating or practice. It is a dieting trick in that it can make you feel more full (or, in a healthy diet trick quenches your thirst without the calories and sugar of juices/milk/soft drinks).
The concerning part is that yes, you will weigh less if you haven't eaten/drank all day (I usually find I'm 0.5 to 1 lb [0.22-0.44kg] lighter before eating/drinking than after I have breakfast - so it's not a huge difference, even for people much larger than Alina). One wonders if she thinks drank too much when at the Team Eteri daily weigh-ins she's gained a tiny bit of weight. Then the next day when she's dehydrated she'll have magically "lost weight."
 
analia said:
It's absurd to think how much water you drink doesn't affect your body. The water you drink doesn't all come out. Your organs also absorb some and that's extra weight, plus your face can get puffed up if you over hydrate yourself. All of this happens to normal people. Alina is growing taller and possibly has trouble keeping the jumps. Lowering some water intake to give herself a little room isn't weird. Many athletes cannot survive puberty because they can't get skills back in their new, heavier body. Let's not pretend you can do whatever you want in such a harsh sport.
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This isn't even true. If you take in way too much salt with all that water you might feel bloated and retain some water, but just drinking lot of water in general, and not at some completely unnatural and dangerous volume doesn't cause organs to absorb lots unnecessary fluid. "Lowering water volume" aka hydrating less aka being in a slight state of dehydration in order to "give herself a little room" (which is an effed up phrase if I ever heard one) is insanity and terrible health-wise. This whole post is a shining example trying to normalize disordered and potentially dangerous eating/drinking rules and weight obsession in the sport.
 
Willin said:
@analia One wonders if she thinks drank too much when at the Team Eteri daily weigh-ins she's gained a tiny bit of weight. Then the next day when she's dehydrated she'll have magically "lost weight."
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I remember from the interviews Eteri gave about Yulia that weight was tracked each morning by the gram. So yes, if you drank a cup of water before getting on the scales it would put your weight up 250g wouldn't it? So I'd imagine no one would be too keen to consume anything before the weigh in.
 
You can drink too much water. If you do, your body fluids can get too diluted and that will cause electrolyte balance disturbances. How much water you need also depends on what you eat. Fruits and vegetables contain lots of water. I believe in leaving it to your body to decide how much you need. When you need to drink, you get thirsty.
 
Tinami Amori said:
Skaters and athletes do have a liquid consumption regiment... it prevents "leaks" and "stains" during practice and competitions. That's why it is often so hard for them to produce a sample for a drug test right after an event.. ;)
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I think I just learned more than I wanted to know. Thanks for that! Not sure how I can get out of my head thinking of my favourite skaters having leaks and stains.. :yikes::yikes::scream::scream::scream:
 
IceAlisa said:
It requires quite a large amount to happen and is irrelevant to this discussion, as mentioned
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I don’t think it is that hard to achieve for athletes. They exercise a lot. As a result they are thirsty, so they keep drinking. Within my 2 hours skating session I often managed to get through 2 litres of water if I worked hard. If they skate longer, let’s say 5-6 hours, and kept drinking the rate I did, I don’t think having 6 litres water would be healthy.
 
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