Mario Mola "It doesn't make much sense to want to be at the top because there are still months to go before the races"

In an interview in the country, the triple World Champion Mario Mola He tells how he is carrying his confinement and how he sees this break in his professional career

Mola comments that I'd never put the brakes on like this in the last decade and believes it will reach 2021 at its peak.

 "This situation represents a very big change, but for everyone, without distinction. I'm living it with uncertainty and with that feeling of wanting everything to return to normal as soon as possible"

What do you do to train?

In my case, I use the roller and a treadmill that I bought a week and a half ago, and I also do a gym," says Mola, who had a harder time than usual getting that treadmill.

By the time we realized and ordered it, we were late and the delivery people were completely overwhelmed…”– and that he has managed to make up the deficit in running and cycling, but barely in swimming.

I do gym, floor exercises and we also use thera-bands - elastic bands to tone the muscles and reinforce flexibility - to simulate the stroke.

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The goal: not to lose all strength

The objective is to try not to lose all your strength, because in the end, you continue to work well on the lower body, but there is a deficit in the upper body because you cannot do the work in the pool and paddles", says the Spaniard, who these days the body He asks him to eat less and that he takes the break philosophically.

“I am not going to take this period to beat myself up, to do each roller session as if my life depended on it…

"At first you have the concern that you can't do everything you should to be fit, but from the moment the calendar goes on standby, it doesn't make much sense to want to be at your best because there are still months to go before the races" , says; “That helps you calm down.

In the last ten years, I have never stopped training this hard for so long, so it's just a matter of adapting and using common sense.

“I have never beaten myself for not being able to do everything I want to do,” he stresses. “I am not going to take this period to beat myself up, to do each roller session as if my life depended on it…

No, because it wouldn't be smart”, he says before starting to pedal with a fan and liven up the session thanks to a virtual platform that simulates a race scenario;

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The important thing is to do maintenance and not lose the desire to go out there

The important thing is to do maintenance and not lose the desire so that when we go out there we still have our legs and mind fresh, because then it will be time to really push ourselves”.

It appreciates the postponement of the Games to the summer of 2021.

“In the rest of the European countries, the colleagues I have still have the possibility of going abroad to continue training; I do not dispute that this measure is good or bad, but that it is a fact, and that put us on the ropes… ”, he reasons.

From London to Rio, a double lesson

From London (19th) and Rio (8th), Mola drew two valuable lessons – "I couldn't fight for the medals, and that only makes me hungry" – and now, with one more course to spare, he looks at Tokyo with good eyes.

"Due to his career and age, it is likely that these are the Games that he can reach the best, although that does not mean that at 35 he cannot perform better than at 31, but obviously now I feel very well",

The next destination was the Emirates and, although he had the ticket in hand, he did not travel because that World Series was suspended, and then he made an express trip to Clermont (USA), where he was going to board the next training block to prepare the test in Bermuda, scheduled for this month.

“It was quite stressful, because first I went to London and from there to Miami, and then I had to drive four hours… to have to come back on the third day, so when I returned home I allowed myself a few days off.

It was melted!", he reconstructs before settling with the irreducible optimism of the triathlete: "This is being very hard, but turning it around will only be a matter of time, as has been achieved on other occasions.

In sport or in life, it's no use complaining."