I love that diet. Lucky bastard.

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That's not surprising at all, though I'm POSITIVE that's a slight exaggeration of what he eats in one single day. Rather, that's more likely a combination of the worst of what he eats for each meal.

I used to swim competitively at a national level (nowhere near his level though), and I'm sure we had similar workout routines.

6 years ago, my diet looked like this:
Breakfast - 1/4 box of cereal, large glass of juice, breakfast bar & coffee.
Pre-Lunch - 1/2 bag of mini-carrots & small bag of pretzels
Lunch - Footlong sub (usually turkey/chicken/roast beef blend, w/cheese, toppings, & bacon)
Pre-Dinner - 1/4 bowl pasta w/ sauce or personal pizza, large bottle of gatorade
Dinner - 1/2 chicken & salad and large bottle of gatorade

You gotta realize that workouts are usually broken into an early morning session and a late afternoon session. So you're kinda hungry all day long.

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It's amazing that he can perform so well while polluting his body with such garbage.

There should be a disclaimer that says "kids don't try this at home!"

Imagine how much better he could be if he actually healthy live foods. I don't think there was even a mention of a single vegetable or fruit in his daily regime.

He may win a lot of gold medals but at what cost? That kind of diet will catch up with him and I don't think will help age gracefully!

As a former professional athlete, I can relate! That is until I saw the light and started eating for energy!

Yuri
http://www.EatingforEnergy.ca

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I just knew some pseudo-intellectual pinhead like "Yuri" was going to come along make some profoundly ignorant commment on Michael's diet. Of course, we weren't disappointed.

"Imagine how much better he could be". You know what, Yuri? Just how far has your diet gotten you? Exactly NOWHERE! How many Olympic gold medals have you won so far? Exactly NONE!

Now, how far has Michael's diet gotten him? Only to be the GREATEST SWIMMER AND MOST DECORATED OLYMPIC ATHLETE OF ALL TIME.

Gee, I wonder who's diet is better? I'll take Michael's, thank you. It obviously WORKS.

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LoL @ Yuri.

Apparently you are so naive to believe that the posted menu of Phelp's diet is the ONLY thing he eats and eats EVERYDAY. It's obvious to me that it is just an EXAMPLE (mahyap used as a "shock value" thing). I should think he being an Olympic athlete, he would have a couple of nutritionists to advise him on his daily dietary needs, so a reasonable person would think that he consumes other proteins as well as fruits and vegetables. Yeesh!

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actually Yuri, as a recent Guardian article noted, if he had to consume that level of calories in "healthier" fashion, the pure bulk of it would overwhelm his system. so even tho he eats what for anyone else would be ridiculous levels of empty calories, that's exactly what he needs. part of the point you're missing is that he's taking in a massive calorie load which none of us obviously need or would ever get near.

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If he keeps it up for a few more years, he will die young. A diet should be sensible. The one he is on will bring about a heart attack.

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Again with more ignorant comments on the quality of Michael's diet. It's positively amazing how well 'health food' propaganda and reams of unproven junk science has completely destroyed the concept of using any sort of common sense.

Do you guys not see the evidence that right's under your very noses? Michael's athletic performance OVERWHELMINGLY validates his diet, period! If Michael's diet was somehow "unhealthy", there is absolutely NO WAY he could perform at that level. And consider this; He's been swimming at this level for years. He's not going to 'die young', and he's not going to 'bring about a heart attack'. In fact, I'd be willing to bet he'll be back in 2012 for even more medals.

You people are just fooling yourselves, and falling for nothing but pseudo "science" and marketing bullshit.

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"Michael's athletic performance OVERWHELMINGLY validates his diet, period!"

That is nonsense. It can be easily proved to be nonsense too - put a hundred athletes on such a diet and they will not excel any better in their sports.

To say that his diet is the success story is to ignore the hard work and determination Phelps has devoted to his sport, and also to ignore his good genetics.

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I used to have a pool in my house. At 13 I ate the shittiest foods you can imagine. Summer I was typically 20LBs lighter then winter. Reason being? In the summer I was in the pool playing in the winter I was sitting on the couch. Trust me that diet may be a extraggaratioon but he has to eat a lot to keep up to his level of performance.

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Someone briefly educate me. If he's taking in the diet as described, the saturated fat alone mustn't be beneficial to his heart and arteries, no? Can one "burn" off plaque from the arteries? So my point obvisouly being, he should devise a diet that is healthier for him in the long run so he doesn't develop heart disease. Jim Fixx from the eighties comes to mind.

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Someone briefly educate me. If he's taking in the diet as described, the saturated fat alone mustn't be beneficial to his heart and arteries, no? Can one "burn" off plaque from the arteries? So my
point obvisouly being, he should devise a diet that is healthier for him in the long run so he doesn't develop heart disease. Runner/author Jim Fixx from the eighties comes to mind.

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What a fat phuk, thats bullshit, there is no way a human being can eat that much in 1 day and compete @ that level. wat a fat cunt

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Um....I'm nowhere near "gold medal" conditon, but just in training for the 09' Florida Ironman I eat at least 6000-8000 calories per day. Otherwise, I'm drained. I'd love to see some of you try to train for any long endurance event with a bunch of fruit and veggies in your belly. There is something called "dietary fiber," wich fruits and veggies are full of that would keep you on the toilet with horrible GI issues.

Also, carbs are important, but your body can only store enough carbs (as glycogen) for about 2hrs of hard effort. After that you "hit the wall" when your body runs out of fast burning carbs, and switches over to slower burning fats. Since fat has 3500 cal per lb, it is the most calorie dense food/fuel that you can get.

Phelps is obviously super low on body fat, and without daily uptake of fats, he would be drained after the 1st 2hrs of a 6hr cardio training day.

Sorry for the book...but just because something seems out of the ordinary, doesn't make it wrong!

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He is a sellout!

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Do you have kids? Do you appreciate America's "hero" advertising to your kid(s) that they should eat pure junk? If you do, then you are idiotic and cruel to your own kid(s).

As far as fiber goes, there is a thing called juicing which gives you all the nutrients without all the fiber. Animals in the wild will suck all the juice from a fruit and spit out the fiber for part of their "instinctive" nutritional regimen. There are foods in the class of superfoods and herbs which give high density nutrition in small amounts of food. Marine phytoplankton, maca, mesquite, spirulina, bee pollen, cacao, goji berries, all berries, chia seeds, horsetail. Eat/Juice all foods in their raw/natural state for maximum nutrition. Supplement with vitamins D, K2, and B12. It is possible. If you must eat meat, then choose fish from the purest sources you can find. Or, here is a ancient new one which come with high amounts of protein and nutrients and NO cholesterol... insects! Ants in particular are some of the best, especially the polyrachis variety. We need someone who knows and lives a healthy life to step up and prove it to the world that diet is the number one factor of being healthy and fit. We need an olympic athlete who will use his/her fame to spread LIFE and knowledge of life-giving foods to our young. I'm training now! See you in 2012!

~Blissings

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The only reason he eats all of this is because he works out all day. He keeps his leg and arms going all day with means he burns lots of calories so he needs lots of sugar and food to stay active. Otherwise he couldn't do any of this at all!

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George: Shut up!!!!
Do you seriously think any normal person is going to eat bugs for lunch? And Michael is not an animal in the wild. Just b/c kids see how much he eats doesn't mean that's what will make them fat. Commercials with junk food appear on t.v. everyday and they see that more that Michael, so he has nothing to do with it. Why don't you focus on the inspiration and motivation he is promoting to kids instead! If you really cared about kids you would SHUT UP and not tell everyone that their great rolemodel is bad. And I highly doubt to even hear the mention of your name in 2012.

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