{"id":15072,"date":"2020-06-24T19:32:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=15072"},"modified":"2020-06-24T19:32:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:32:26","slug":"fitness-tips-from-formula-one-world-champ-lewis-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/nutrition\/fitness-tips-from-formula-one-world-champ-lewis-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness Tips from Formula One World Champ Lewis Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has made quite a career for himself as a Formula 1 legend. While you may assume that health and fitness aren\u2019t a priority for a race car driver, you\u2019d be wrong. Hamilton, who is a six-time champion, says it plays a very important role.<\/p>\n<p>So, what does Hamilton do to stay in great shape? He recently spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.menshealth.com\/uk\/fitness\/a32877730\/lewis-hamilton-workout-nutrition-vegan\/\">Men\u2019sHealth<\/a> and provided some interesting insight into his fitness routine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does Lewis Hamilton do to stay in shape?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He says he likes to lift weights, but he has to be careful. \u201cFormula 1 drivers can\u2019t be too heavy: more muscle means more kilos,\u201d he said. He does a lot of running, which he says helps during the long races.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the course of a two-hour race, you might have an average heartbeat of 160-170bpm. During qualifying, it can go up to 190bpm. That\u2019s why I do a lot of running,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How has his training changed over the years?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He told Men\u2019sHealth that he works more on his core now than ever before. He uses several different exercise routines to build his core, including muay Thai and Pilates. When he was younger, he says he simply got in the car and drove to win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does Hamilton\u2019s diet look like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hamilton made the switch to a plant-based diet, which he says gives him consistent energy and has had positive effects on his sleep and overall health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is a plant-based diet?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A plant-based diet focuses on natural foods that aren\u2019t heavily processed and don\u2019t include any animal ingredients like meat, milk, or honey.<\/p>\n<p>People following a plant-based diet eat a lot of fruits, vegetables, whole grains like cereals, brown rice, and oats, and legumes like beans and lentils.<\/p>\n<p>While the health routines of a race car driver might not mimic your own, they\u2019re worth considering to improve your health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Hamilton has made quite a career for himself as a Formula 1 legend. While you may assume that health and fitness aren\u2019t a priority for a race car driver, you\u2019d be wrong. Hamilton, who is a six-time champion, says it plays a very important role. So, what does Hamilton do to stay in great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[453],"tags":[723,630,724],"class_list":["post-15072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition","tag-diet","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}