Barcelona winger following Cristiano Ronaldo’s diet regime, considers him ‘idol’

Former Real Madrid frontman Cristiano Ronaldo is said to be the inspiration of new Barcelona signing Adama Traore, with Santi Ovalle of Cadena SER writing that the winger puts on double training sessions in order to perform better on the field. 

Glimpses of Traore’s imposing physical stature were on display during his second debut match for Barça against Atletico Madrid where the 26-year-old capped off his outing with an assist. 

Since leaving the Catalan club for Aston Villa in 2015, the speedy winger has put excessive work in coping with the brutish nature of the Premier League. From the time of his transfer, Traore has had hard times with regards to injuries, but he has never backed out of working on improving his physical condition.

As Ovalle writes, Traore puts on double training sessions from Monday to Thursday. That means apart from his usual team training, he goes through a personalized regime in the afternoon. During that latter session, which is usually done at the high-performance centre, Global Performance, he works on injury prevention as well as on power performance.

“If it were up to him, he would work twice as hard but it swells his body up and affects his speed,” a source close to the winger was quoted as saying by Cadena SER.

Apart from all the physical work, the 26-year-old follows a strict diet and it is said that he has total control over what he eats by quantifying the products and adopting an elite diet chart. There was even a time that he thought of adapting a purely vegetarian diet but as it turned out, he is in need of meat protein to perform at the highest level on the field.

It’s quite evident that Traore is no longer the same player who left Barcelona for the Premier League in 2015. He has an extremely lower percentage of body fat albeit boasts of a high density of muscle mass. And this resembles well with Cristiano Ronaldo who interestingly has the same representative as that of Traore.