part 4:
- The other day you wrote a post on social networks: "I am sitting in my Dubaisk, doing nothing."
- As always.
-Seriously, what do you do in your free time?
- Now they gave me a week of rest before training. This, of course, is very small, but nothing terrible. I have certain plans for a few days, and three days, more precisely, two and a half, are free. I will try to get the most out of these days that I don’t have time to do in my normal life when I train.
-What exactly are you going to do?
-First of all, this is vocals, this is a meeting with friends, these are interviews, recordings on the radio - all this. Well, just sit at home and relax.
- By the way, what was poured into that mug in the photo?
- Tea. The mug was even sweaty.
— Many people wrote that it was beer.
- Where? Firstly, this is a state institution, a skating rink. Where can there be beer? Well, what do you think.
-You can bring your own beer.
-No one will carry with us, we are athletes in the first place. Secondly, what kind of lack of culture and disrespect to take beer there? It's tea, of course, because on ice you feel cold. Drinking something hot is okay. But what beer? Jokes are jokes, but this is too much.
- There is a theory that with that photo you answered the criticism of Alexei Zheleznyakov.
- It's not a theory. Yes, that's how it is. I don't understand why so many things are always pouring on me. Actually, as on Dziuba, returning to the same question. There is nothing special about my actions. Yes, I don’t understand why coaches not from my team are trying to say something, advise or put something in my responsibilities. My work will be evaluated by my current coach. Satisfied with me or not, it will remain between me and the coach, or even the team. And the fact that I am given some comments by people who are nothing to me now, except that he is more adult than me ... I can’t characterize this person in any way. Maybe it's good to hype on my name? Joke.
- In life, is he not the same as in social networks and comments for the media?
- Alexey Valentinovich is one of those people who are not very different in life and in what he talks about.
-Would you prefer to limit contact with him?”
- Yes, I don’t communicate with him, I don’t need it. Why do I need communication not with my coaches, this is the same as wasting energy and strength on people from the street.
-We discussed what you drink. Now let's talk about what you eat. Tell me about your diet. Is it hard to watch how you eat in figure skating?
-This is important for any sport. It is necessary to receive a certain amount of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, as well as trace elements. Naturally, no one thoroughly monitors grams, there is no need for this. I don't have one, especially in the off-season. My favorite phrase: "I'll be fat, but I'll be content." Because then I will start training, there will be a load, and I will not have time to go somewhere to eat or even cook. I will only eat food that doesn't take long to cook. It can be boiled chicken breast or vegetables. For this, 15 minutes is enough. I'll make it a week ahead and that's it. This helps to save energy on cooking.
- Diet and constant weighing is ...
-It's terrible and disgusting. The strict diet is completely wrong. Any strict diet. There should be a well-balanced diet, with no restrictions. It is clear that a person will not eat chocolate non-stop for a week - this is wrong in any case. But sweets and some kind of harmful chips can be, you don’t have to eat a whole pack. For example, after half a can of chips, my mouth irritates due to the amount of spices, so I can’t eat anymore, it hurts. I love chocolate very much, I can eat it for weeks, but then I still want to eat normal food. Some ordinary, fresh, for example, buckwheat without anything.
Strict diet is disgusting. As soon as you set yourself a limit, you immediately want to eat everything, you only think about food. The Forbidden fruit is sweet. Constant weighing is the same. You are constantly weighed, given a comment. It can be once or twice a week, this is normal, but if it is several times a day, then this is not normal. It's hard to unlearn from that. I know this, I had a quirk when I always got on the scales - after water or an apple. If you gain 300 grams, then you immediately think that you are fat and you won’t jump in training - and everything blurs before your eyes. An unhealthy attitude is hard to overcome.
-Were you forced to weigh yourself? Why weigh yourself twice a day?
- Because we have two training sessions - morning and evening. There was a moment when we all weighed. Do it yourself in the morning first. Then, before the morning training, the coaches weigh you, watch your weight so that you don’t go on the ice and break your legs. We need to dose the load. Then lunch, after which you watch it yourself again, because you understand that before the next workout there will be a weigh-in again. If you add more than a certain amount there, they will strongly scold you, they will say: “How can you be so negligent about yourself, your health, a sport? In fact, your legs feed you, and you, with your overweight, will go to break them. Of course, with additional weight of 400 grams, you won't break your legs. And what is a dinner of 400 grams anyway? A glass of water - already 250. Then, after dinner, we weighed again. Then you weigh yourself after the second training to see how much you can eat for dinner. If there was not enough, then in addition to the main warm up, there was also walking, running in films, in everything possible, in order to expel water from oneself and everything in a row, so that one could eat something adequate.
— Running in film on skin?
- You wrap the usual cling film on the skin. The pores close tightly, it works like a thermo.
- Did the coaches force you to do this?
-No, we are on our own. That's what athletes do. Someone needs to lose weight and stuff. I know that from this big problems with the heart.
-What if there were consequences?
- There were consequences. Now everything seems to be fine, but still, a device for monitoring the indications of the work of the heart is constantly hung up on me.
- What were the consequences?
- When I skate in the Angels for a year, they did not give me permission. I was conditionally admitted to all competitions, because there were big health problems, we tried to restore it. But they were so global that you kind of treat one thing and cripple another. Some of the permitted drugs help one thing, but it is harmful. And we chose what exactly is needed now. There was a moment when they didn’t give me permission to my heart - sometimes for two weeks. The doctors said: “We will now give you a permit, but something will happen to you, and we will be responsible for it.” And you can understand me that I want to compete, and you can understand them, because it is a responsibility.
- They say that you earn 200 thousand rubles a month. What are you spending this money on?
- The amount is subject to correction, of course.
- Up or down?
-It's a secret! I spend on the same as ordinary people. I set aside part of the amount for travel in order to get there somehow. Then food and stuff. I also have pets. Rabbit for hay, sawdust, something else, dog food. Necessarily diapers, because I am at the skating rink for a long time and cannot walk during the day. Sometimes, of course, I go back and forth specifically for this, but mostly there is a diaper. Ordinary household expenses.
- And the clothes?
- It depends. In general, my wardrobe is already full. I bought the jacket that I'm wearing six months ago and never wore it. Oversize is like that, you can wear it everywhere, but I don’t want something. And I have so many things lying around.
- Is there any envy or resentment towards Russian football players? Top skaters like you, like Valieva, Shcherbakova or Trusova - you are much more popular than many of them, and you earn much less.
- Naturally, it's a shame. I do not want to say anything like that, but it could be somehow corrected. Our federation is trying, there are sponsors, various companies and brands. So in general, everything is fine, just a little insulting. Football is also quite popular in our country, but as a sport in itself, and not as specific individuals. And we are all individual. Probably that's the point. But we don't complain too much.
- What are your favorite clothing brands?
- I don't have any. There are sports ones, but there are no regular brands. I am very short and skinny for all stores. Sometimes the 2XS is too big for me. It's terrible, you have to hem everything. Buy jeans and dont hem it - I don’t know how it can be.
- Are you hemmed jeans now?
- Not now, I have not hemmed ones, this is one case in a thousand. Everything else I do all the time.
- Do you hem it yourself?
- Of course not. Why spoil things? Before the closing of large stores, I dressed in general everywhere. Somewhere a cool blouse, somewhere a scarf. I combine all this and sometimes it turns out very cool.
— What are you think after the closure of some brands in Russia?
- You can find analogues, and through the Internet - in general, everything. Due to the fact that the stores are closed, I just ordered online. Maybe it's leftovers from warehouses. But if you are not tied to a particular brand, you can always find something.
- And the last question. Can you say that you are happy now?
- Yes!
But who would play Edward?!
