Claudia Leitte on diet: “I eat well and don’t cut carbohydrates” –

The year 2018 starts with everything to Claudia Leitte: she returns to television as a Sunday judge The Voice Kids, is in the final stretch of preparation for the Carnival – his tenth solo career – and stars on the January cover of magazine, which hits newsstands this Friday, 12th (Friday).

In the edition, the 37-year-old singer talks about her fitness routine on and off the trio. Every night of revelry, it’s like she takes six zumba classes in a row, or runs two marathons, or complete a Half Ironman race in the six-hour daily show, singing and dancing non-stop to a sea of ​​people. “No break, woman! It’s non-stop. I don’t go down there, I don’t go to a corner to eat, nothing… I don’t even pee! It’s just sweating, just in the armpits”, he says with a laugh – and with the excitement of someone who can’t wait to live it all over again. Claudinha talks about her tenth Carnival solo career (she was the lead singer of the group Babado Novo) as if it were her first.

Preparation for Carnival

So that the singer can mend Ice Baldin, taquita, Sealer and a total of more than 250 songs per night without losing breath, his training routine undergoes some adjustments at least four months before the most famous event in the country. The already balanced diet is even lighter – it prioritizes fish, greens and vegetables. “I’ve been eating really well since I was a kid. My grandfather sent us vegetables. My mother stopped by the supermarket just to buy cleaning products. The food itself came from the Feira das Sete Portas . I grew up with this habit and even today I trade a pizza for a plate of meat stew with all the vegetables you can imagine: eggplant, gherkin, potatoes, sweet potatoes…”, he says.

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Frying is not part of her life, and she knows that the only thing that keeps her off balance are concerts. “They make my wave unbalanced because they continue into the early hours. If I could, I would do all my performances at sunset on the beach,” she says. The most turbulent period is, of course, Carnival, when there is no time even to chew. “Baby, it’s past time to eat!”, Zizi, from the singer’s staff, usually warns. She’s the one who brings honey or a mashed banana, easy to digest, for Claudinha to enjoy without letting go of the microphone. “Pulling a trio is like a physical activity: if you lose contact with the public a little bit, your muscles cool down, your energy cools down. So I go singing, ‘Come on guys’, she does a trumpet solo and… ready!” Water and Coconut Water they are always around – the singer usually ingests 3 liters of liquid during each megashow to maintain hydration. No wonder, in the 2018 season, sports will be the central theme of the trio. “On top of that, I’m an athlete.”

After Ash Wednesday, there is feijoada, but soon the balanced diet is resumed. “I assume that if it’s in nature, it’s important. That’s why I don’t cut carbohydrate, essential to give me energy. But then I bet on sweet potatoes, for example.

passion for zumba

I spent eight months without working out because I had a problem with two discs in my back and what held me back was food”, he says. For a soul agitated by axé, the period of forced rest was almost torture. As physical activity is essential to control breathing, although she took a break from strength training, the singer tried to stay active with other exercise options. If you called Claudinha at that time, you would barely recognize the voice on the other end of the line. She would answer the phone out of breath because she was doing zumba. “I became the queen of the Xbox: almost every day, I would put dance training on the video game and spend half an hour playing with the boys . It’s a more playful workout. It works isometry, strengthens the whole body and is good for physical conditioning, for the stage”, says the singer, ambassador of the modality that she met five years ago in the United States.

When she was on vacation in Los Angeles, USA, where she has a home, she tried a class thinking it was a new rhythm. “I bought the videos (because they were DVDs before, right?) and I got a little addicted to zumba. I really like dancing, so every activity that involves music for me is profit”, she adds. During this period, she also did stretching and posture improvement. “Now I lift weights all concentrated. I am absolutely aware of where I am putting strength in my body. There are evils that come for good. I had a problem, but on the other hand, I solved many others!”