As we know, after remarkable performance in Beijing Olympic 2008, all post-Olympic conversation is about Phelps, Phelps and Phelps. Michael Phelps has become the number 1 and top of the 25 Most Marketable Olympians.
One of the most interesting behind phelps`s success is power breakfast in his diet scheme. speaking about menu of course it`s not only two cup of coffee that he drank, neither “Eat, Sleep and Swin, that`s all I can do”, but the whole menu he consumpt. According to Guardian, a typical day in six-days-a-week, five-hours-a-day training regime is an extraordinary 12,000-calorie daily diet:
Breakfast
three fried-egg sandwiches with a few customised additions: cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise. Two cups of coffee, omelette - containing five eggs - and a bowl of grits, a porridge of coarsely ground corn. three slices of French toast, with powdered sugar on top to make sure there’s no skimping on the calories. three chocolate chip pancakes.
Lunch
With breakfast wearing off and the hunger pangs biting, Phelps downs half a kilogram - ie a whole packet - of enriched pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches. On white bread with loads of mayo on top. To remove any chance that his body will run out of fuel, he washes this down with about 1,000 calories of energy drink.
Dinner
Time to load up on carbs for the next day’s training. Another half kilo of enriched pasta goes down the hatch with a chaser of an entire pizza and another 1,000 calories of energy drinks. And so to bed.
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