Benzema's new youth

Benzema rejuvenates. If last season Madrid finished saying goodbye to the negative influence of Cristiano's goodbye by winning the League, a good part of it is due to the great physical condition of Karim, who contributed 27 goals with 32 years. “He's in better shape than when he was 25”says a club member with access to the locker room who has been watching him since he arrived. Benzema, as if it were a football Benjamin Button, improves over the years. Private trainings with a 'magic' suit, recovery with suction cups, a new nutrition avant garde which includes microalgae and the consumption of ionized alkaline water…

Four years ago, Benzema not only gave the impression of being a heavier footballer, he was. He lost five kilos with effect on his game since 2017 and now even more. He's at the best competition weight of his career. In his early days in Madrid he had a cook but he decided to do without her because he was told that he was eating too much fat. He made up for it, in part, by spending the last week of his vacation in a specialized center in Merano, Italy to get ready. But the Frenchman decided to take an even bigger turn in his career. Stretch out your best years as much as possible.

Benzema's secret hinges on three factors. During the season, do one or two weekly workouts with a fitness trainer and an electrostimulation suit to improve performance. It complements it with recovery thanks to cupping, cupping therapy, a technique of Asian origin that took flight at the Rio Games when Michael Phelps showed his powerful muscles “marked” by strange circles. In static cupping, glasses that extract the air between the skin and the glass. It is applied to Benzema on the back. Used to activate the qi, to mobilize the blood that supplies the muscles and release the tension that oppresses the nerve endings. Karim has also become devoted to bringing a new diet, at the hands of his own chef, Alberto Mastromatteo.

The result is that Benzema has tripled his scoring influence at Madrid although he is heading to 33 years old (he will meet them in December). In the last campaign with Cristiano, he contributed only 8% of the goals of the white team. This course, it was 27%. Without signings this summer, Karim (with a contract until 2022) lives a second youth that Madrid and Zidane want to make the most of …