We all love a dish from our childhood, and Nadia unsurprisingly loves a Romanian dish called Salata de Vinete. It’s an eggplant dish made with onions, salt and pepper, olive oil, dill, and garlic. You roast the eggplant, take the meat out of its skin and stir the rest in the ingredients.
Sound similar to Baba Ganoush, minus the tahini. You can find the full recipe on the Food Network website and eat like an Olympic gold winner.
Healthy Lifestyle
Despite no longer being a competitive athlete, Nadia Comăneci maintains the diet of an athlete and eats very healthily. She manages to do so while living smack in the middle of Oklahoma, where healthy options aren’t as readily available. Nadia likes to eat toast for breakfast with some cheese and turkey, she drinks one coffee a day, has a healthy wrap for lunch and will eat a light dinner like fish and a big salad. She rarely eats meat and hasn’t touched french fries in almost 25 years. And the result? A super fit mom at age 57!
It’s no wonder that she is able to maintain such a fit physique.
HIIT To Keep Fit
Comănaci still works out a lot. She does physical exercise almost every single day. She even says that she does some gymnastics when there is nobody at the gym. She’s on the road a lot, but it’s still important for her to fit workouts in. It’s impressive that she’s able to maintain a workout routine despite her often hectic schedule.
She prefers to do quick, high-intensity workouts for no more than 30 minutes. Anybody can manage to fit this into their schedule.
Back To Where She Made History
The Fig Artistic Gymnastics World Championship is the world championship competition in gymnastics. The competition was hosted in Montreal in 2017, just over four decades after the city hosted the 1976 Olympic Games. So, who was the best person to be the official spokesperson for the gymnastics world championships other than the first woman to ever score a perfect 10 in the same city? None other than Comănaci.
She came back to the city nearly forty years later. Here she is pictured alongside another Olympic Gold winner, Nastia Liukin.
Innovating The Sport
When someone does a move in gymnastics it is called an element. Comăneci was known for inventing so many different elements, several of which have been named after her. Some have since been banned from gymnastics routines.
When Nadia was asked how a gymnast invents a new element, she answered that no one goes into training and one day thinks “I’m going to create something new.” They invent new elements usually by mistake. But hey, it’s a good mistake!