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Michael Phelps' 10000 calories diet: What the American swimmer ate while training for Beijing Olympics?
Know the extraordinary diet behind the swimmer's remarkable success
By Olympic Channel Writer
16 May 2021 02:36 GMT-7
3 min read
Michael Phelps is the most decorated Olympian of all time. He has won 28 medals across four editions of the Olympics. He holds the record for most Olympic gold medals (23), Olympic gold medals in individual events (13), and Olympic medals in individual events (16).
At Beijing 2008, the 'Baltimore Bullet' won eight gold medals and broke Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven golds at a single Olympic edition. After his stupendous success in China, he made the headlines when he revealed that he used to consume 10000 calories in a day.
What did Michael Phelps eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
For breakfast, he had three fried egg sandwiches, with cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, fried onions and mayonnaise, followed by three chocolate-chip pancakes. That was not all, after sandwiches and pancakes, it was time for a five-egg omelette, three sugar-coated slices of French toast, a bowl of grits, and two cups of coffee to wash down everything.
However, on the way to training if he felt like having anything more he would stop and have a go.
For lunch, he would have half-kilogram of pasta, two large ham and cheese sandwiches on white bread smothered with mayonnaise, and another set of energy drinks.
Whereas for dinner, add a pound of pasta with carbonara sauce, a large pizza, and energy drinks.
This would make up around 10,000 calories a day which should ideally feed five average men a day!