Michael Phelps diet

haha yeah, read this in the paper.

I was surprised that it isn't as perfectly clean as you'd expect, it's mostly awesome food, and lots of it! :D
 
Killa_ken said:
This is a real possibility if I play well the next two seasons :D
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How much do professional squatters make these days, some kinda league over there or something?

:p


I dunno, he might eat that much, might have been given as a example of several meals, who knows, swimmers don't have a massive muscle mass so he shouldn't have an uber metabolism and you can see how much he slows down in a 200-400m race, he doesn't got top speed for 5 hours a day every day. Can imagine him needing to eat closer to that amount in an olympics with that much stress and pressure to avoid under eating at a crucial time though.

But this, or close to this, is why so many ex athletes swell up so quickly. When you're used to eating 7k calories a day and you retire and almost completely stop exercising you are still used to eating loads. Its always funny how many fat ex athletes there are around, you'd think they'd hate being fat and feeling tired/heavy all the time.
 
The bit that makes me chuckle is the 3 fried egg sandwiches and a 5 egg omlette in the same meal. I don't think I've ever eaten that much egg in one sitting.
 
I still think this a bit of media hype. 6hrs of swimming a day is a lot, but tour de france/professional cyclists eat around 6k cals and I doubt there's much difference in it? Similar with bi-athletes - I reckon he does get at least 6k a day, but 12k? That's OTT IMO.
 
I found it difficult eating 6,000 a day when rowing, I don't know how he does it. You just get to a point where you hit 'the wall' and think, god, no more food.
 
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