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.(Hat tip: GeekPress.) Bonus link: a swim lit post I wrote last summer that includes a scanned page (scroll down) of the food coach Sherm Chavoor asked his young swimmers to consume in the 1960s...
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.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
What Phelps eats
The Wall Street Journal links to the New York Post's account of what Michael Phelps has been eating every day:
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3 comments:
Wow! He's an eating machine as well as a swimming machine! I have my doubts Dana Torres eats like that, though.
Yup. You have to eat a great deal if you are a strapping young fellow that trains as much as he does.
Sidebar addition noted!
no way he eats that much for breakfast. I'm sure he eats a lot, but I can eat, and I couldn't even come close to that much food.
I guess I'm just jealous.
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