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How does Michael Phelps and other Olympians eat so many calories?
With the games in Rio starting, I was online looking at different facts, and saw that Phelps eats 12k calories a day! I've seen this before, but never really thought about it. I run cross country, and lift weights daily. I have a very healthy diet with one chest day a week. My daily calorie intake is 2800 calories. I COULD eat much more, but I don't want to get fat. I train for about 3 hours a day, and on some days I am rounding up 12-15 miles running (I track my runs). I never feel hungry enough to eat 12 thousand calories, let alone 3500! How does one get used to this? Even if you are training 6 hours a day, I really don't think I could do this. I'm 6'2, 170. Idk what phelps weights, but it can't be to different.
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- 5 years ago
Well, they lift most likely. Lifting weights can burn quite a few calories off. Weight lifters often in take cals way past the normal 2000 cals needed for an average person because you're tearing more muscles when your lift and using more energy in order to lift the weights. Anyways the athletes probably have strict diets and exercise regimes. I myself work out for 6 hours everyday for soccer and weight lifting. I can consume over 3000 cals every other day and 2800 in between. I only weigh at 115 lbs and a female at age 17. BMI is 49% I also live on a strict diets of proteins fruit and carbs. Also I am only 5'4.
- GertLv 75 years ago
They are using so much energy (calories) to do their sports, they need all those calories. They would become very thin and weak without it.
