"Phelps lends a new spin to the phrase "Breakfast of Champions" by starting off his day by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.
He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.
At lunch, Phelps gobbles up a pound of enriched pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches slathered with mayo on white bread - capping off the meal by chugging about 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.
For dinner, Phelps really loads up on the carbs - what he needs to give him plenty of energy for his five-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week regimen - with a pound of pasta and an entire pizza.
He washes all that down with another 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks."
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08132008/news/nationalnews/phelps_pig_secret__hes_boy_gorge_124248.htm
I know he needs the calories but.......whoa
Sounds like a receipe for old-age diabetes...
i call bullshit
Many of the competitive swimmers I know have ended up getting pretty damn fat after their competition days are over. They burn so many calories when training and don't completely alter their diet when they stop training. A buddy of mine was a skinny collegiate swimmer and was almost unrecognizable 2 years later.
Even if true, I would never do that diet. Just saw a show last night on female swimmer Dara Torres' diet. If she had his diet all these years, we would not be seeing her in the Olympics
god damn how does his stomach fit all that fuckin food?
I believe that he consumes that number of calories. However, i find that every example diet that's written out as a sample day like the above are poor representations of the actual diet. Plus, where's this guys nutritionist for christ's sake?
...he says as he waits impatiently to eat half a pizza and some beer on lunch.
-doug-
I agree that probably is not his exact diet but I would bet it looks a lot like that.I can't think of any examples but it seems like a lot of top athletes eat this way. (strength athletes, sprinters)
Tyson Gay is also know to frequently eat at Mcdonald's whenever he travels. The night before the the Olympic qualifiers he had a box of of cookies for dinner and he ate at a pancake house the day of the Olympics qualifiers.
He's quite young and swims hours a day - I totally believe he eats that many calories. He HAS to! And think about it, if he has to eat that many calories to keep the weight on and build muscles - he's not going to do it eating veggies. Do you know how much broccoli that would take? lol!
Rasslin - Dara Torres and Phelps are two completely different animals. As someone else mentioned, as Phelps ages and stops competing, his diet will also have to change quite a bit. In the meantime, unless he wants to eat, literally, buckets of green beans a day, at least this way he can get in the calories he needs.
I don't find this hard to believe either.
I was wrestling 3x a week, training MMA 2-3X a week, and fitting in some auxillary lifting while trying to move up a weight class about a year ago; I had to eat constantly not to feel like a zombie, and I wasn't working even a fraction as hard as he does.
That's a scary level of appetite, though...
Ryan Bailey is known as The KFC Kid in Australia.