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Subject: michael phelps' 12K calorie diet

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08/15/2008 1:01 PM Alert 
i just wanted to get everybody's take on michael phelps' carbohydrate-rich diet: http://www.menshealth.com/beijing/story.html

of course, he puts in about 5 hrs of intense exercise; so that's bound to keep his insulin in check, so he could use a lot of fat for fuel. however, he's become probably the best olympian in history carbin' up.

how do you think the zone would improve his performance? you would obviously have to consume more blocks to maintain that type of activity; what other mods the zone would you have to undertake?
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10/02/2008 11:32 AM Alert 
Yes I read about his 12000 calorie diet. If he were zoning, that would amount to at 120-130 blocks a day. Now, let's see if we divide that into 5 block meals, that would would be 24-26 meals a day. So one 5 block meal an hour, including during sleep. It reminds me of the elephants in Africa. They only sleep an hour or two per 24 hour cycle because they have to eat the rest of the time.

Of course if he stuck to a 20 or 25 block diet per day as per the Olympian diet in Mastering the Zone, and then supplanted the rest with fat he would have to drink at least a quart/liter of olive oil per day. Yummy. As far as I could tell his diet consisted mainly of pizzas.

The only other athletes I know of who would consume this amount of calories a day are competitive bodybuilders, weighing some 270 lbs on day of competition, and ingesting massive amounts of drugs such as anabolic steroids, growth hormones, injecting insulin (yep), and what not into their bloodstream.
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