Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates his 40th birthday today and, notably, is still breaking records in the football field.
Most players would have hung their boots years ago and have established themselves in retirement. No Ronaldo.
On the eve of his historic birthday, he published a photo of himself on Instagram with crio compression boots of £ 4,000 to help his muscle recovery and keep him at the top of his game.
He also has his own Cryotherapy Chamber at home, which shows that he is not giving anything for granted when it comes to preparing for each game.
It seems that there are no days off when it comes to staying in maximum conditions and extending his career as a player.
And a large part of its success is reduced to your daily routine and how your body takes care of.
Cristiano Ronaldo is still in a condition peak at age 40, since he spends up to four hours a day in the gym
His partner Georgina Rodríguez supports her regime and ensures that she adheres to a strict diet
Ronaldo has his own Cryotherapy Chamber at home, and celebrated his 40th birthday using £ 4,000 CRIO COMPRESSION Boots to help his muscle recovery
Gym training are bread and butter for modern soccer players, but Ronaldo goes to the next level passing up to four hours in the gym five days a week.
A high -intensity intervals training mixture (HIIT), running and cycling are the order of the day, often joins his partner Georgina Rodríguez, since she encourages him to push him to his limits, while his Christian son JR has also been known that he trains with him.
With Rodríguez by his side, Ronaldo is happy to put the job, and the rewards are there for everyone to see.
Ronaldo's diet is also meticulous that allows him to stand out among the crowd.
Its discipline is exemplary, since it does not touch sugar or carbonated drinks. Instead, it feeds on chicken, fresh fish and vegetables, and only drink black coffee. It is not necessary to say that alcohol is a non-go.
Once again, Rodríguez is with him in every step of the road, with the couple publishing a click of themselves drinking an electrolytic drink in the sauna on Instagram recently.
And then we go to your sleep patterns. Surely only try to approach eight hours of sleep per night like everyone else? Mistaken!
Ronaldo swears sleeping in five 90 -minute cycles to imitate the natural rhythms of his body, prioritizing the quality of the quantity.
Ronaldo puts the job daily to become the phenomenon that is today
His son, Cristiano Jr, sometimes for his daily training
There were questions about whether it was more style than substance when he joined Manchester United, but has responded to the emphatically
It is an extensive regime that has led Ronaldo to be a skinny teenager who swayed in Manchester United in 2003 to possibly the most recognizable footballer that the sport has seen.
More than two decades after his debut at Old Trafford, it is easy to forget that there were initial doubts about Ronaldo. Was it more style than substance?
With 924 professional objectives and counting on your name, that question has been answered emphatically.
Exactly when Ronaldo reached his best brilliant is difficult to point out. He won his first ball d'Or during his first spell in United in 2008, since he led them to the glory of the Champions League before joining Real Madrid the following year.
He went to another level completely in the Spanish capital, scoring 450 incredible goals in 438 games in nine years.
Four more trophies of Ballon d'Or Awards and Champions League arrived on their way during this period before moving to Juventus in 2018.
After joining the Italian giants at age 33, some may have expected it to begin to decrease. It is not a bit.
Ronaldo won two more titles of the League in Italy before meeting with United, where he scored 26 goals in his full season at the club.
Ronaldo has become the best soccer scorer, having scored 450 times in 438 games for Real Madrid
Ronaldo won four Ballon d'Or awards and four trophies of the Champions League while in Madrid
It also has 135 goals for Portugal and could play in a sixth World Cup next year
He followed a public consequence with Erik Ten Hag and his United contract was started, but Ronaldo has shown that he still got him shooting in fun for fun in Saudi Arabia with Al-Nassr.
It has 81 goals in 89 games for the Saudi outfit, including an appearance in its last departure earlier this week.
All the time, he has illuminated the international stage with Portugal, scoring 135 goals in 216 appearances and winning the European championship in 2016.
These are numbers that are unlikely to break.
Each professional footballer has talent, but work ethics is another matter and Ronaldo's is unique.
Ronaldo admits that his friends tell him that he has no “life” out of football, but that he doesn't care. He still loves playing and will not yet retire.
He told Channel 11: “If you tell me” Do you still like training? “I still like training. Is it the same as I felt when I was 20 years old? No, it's not the same.
'But I still feel passion. Of doing a final training, of being there competing with others, left foot, right foot. I still like it.
“And it's strange, there are many of my friends who say” you don't have life. “It's true, but I like it. I know he will end. In a year, or two or three. I don't know. And I don't care either.
Ronaldo has refused to establish a retirement date, and there may be few doubts that he still has objectives to achieve.
After all, his former agent Jorge Mendes has claimed that Ronaldo is “never satisfied.”
In a written letter for his old client's birthday, Mendes wrote: 'Talking about Cristiano Ronaldo is talking about a predestined being. It is talking about a very special person, either as a player or as a person.
Ronaldo's former agent Jorge Mendes (right) still believes that the forward has a lot in the tank
It would be nonsense to bet against Ronaldo to reach 1,000 professional goals before retiring
'Someone who knows nothing of the impossible, someone who overcome, professionalism, motivation and ambition his motto in life. For him, there is no limit to the one who cannot be achieved. It was like that for more than two decades and it is still like that.
'His ambition to always be better, as it really is, prevents him from falling into a routine. He is never satisfied. I was not satisfied when I was 20 years old, I was not satisfied when I was 30 years old and is not satisfied now when you are 40 years old.
Could Ronaldo potentially reach 1,000 professional goals? Will he play in a sixth World Cup in 2026?
If you can maintain your current ethic and work mentality, there is no reason why not.