The Michael Phelp’s 12000 Calories/day Diet
With all of the excitement of the Olympic swimming events lately, one thing that has really seemed to capture everyone’s attention is the news about Michael Phelps 12,000 calorie daily meal plans. Here is what his typical daily menu looks like:
Breakfast: Three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise. Two cups of coffee. One five-egg omelet. One bowl of grits. Three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar. Three chocolate-chip pancakes.
Lunch: One pound of enriched pasta. Two large ham and cheese sandwiches with mayo on white bread. Energy drinks packing 1,000 calories.
Dinner: One pound of pasta. An entire pizza. More energy drinks.
If you think about it, considering that the average person consumes between 2,000 to 3,000 calories per day, it is quite phenomenal to think that Phelps can consume 12,000 calories/day and still stay as lean as he is. This just shows the power of the amount of physical activity he actually does each day to expend all of those calories.
Now keep in mind that this is only his caloric intake during his most extreme periods of training… and he is also quite an athletic freak of nature. That amount of training that he does every day would be some serious overtraining and cripple the average person. SO, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!
August 20 2008 01:56 pm | Health