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In an interview with NBC Michael Phelps confessed he consumes a staggering 12,000 calories a day.
By comparison, the average man of the same age needs to ingest about 2,000 calories a day.
Why so much food?
Phelps has to keep his intake up in order to compensate for all the calories he burns during training. He trains 30 hours per week. Assuming 5 days of training and two days of rest. Phelps spends at least 6 hours a day training hard. With his super size meals I assume he spends another 2 hours a day eating!
To maintain high levels of training you have to eat lots of calories.
What Michael Phelps eats for Breakfast:
3 fried egg sandwiches, 2 cups coffee, 5-egg omlette, bowl of grits, 3 pieces of french toast, 3 chocolate chip pancakes
What Michael Phelps eats for Lunch:
1 pound pasta, 2 ham and cheese sandwiches,
What Michael Phelps eats for Dinner:
1 pound pasta, 1 large pizza,
If you are training for a marathon or any other sport and you feel a decline in performance, it could be a sign you are not consuming enough calories to power your training.
Train hard eat hard!
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that diet you say phelps eats..is such a lie…you bunch of liars!! No one in their right mind would eat all that crap food. pizza fried eggs ..give me a break..
Comment by doop — August 12, 2009 @ 7:37 pm
Shutch your filthy mouth!! He can eat whatever he wants when he wants it. Hes a champ! Pizza and fried eggs are quite delicious! FYI
Comment by Doop s dumb — November 2, 2009 @ 7:04 pm
Pizza is actually pretty good for you if its fresh and not filled with artificial fillers and preservatives, fried eggs as well. Your body needs fats and oils and cholesterol in order to function properly. Now if all you ate were “insert fast food chain here” burgers all day long and didn’t exercise at all they you are going to turn into a cornfed pig. Try swimming a few miles a day and lifting and running and you too could eat this without looking like homer simpson.
Comment by JCSKI — January 14, 2010 @ 1:40 am
Its not about looking like a homer, its about the shit that is in those foods building up in your body. Sure you can burn off calories quickly, but dairy and red meat takes a long time to digest. Athletes eat much better than this while training.
I am sure that this is to represent his calorie intake and not necessarily his daily meal plan.
Comment by vongrad — June 10, 2010 @ 6:28 pm