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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 04:44 PM
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Men, you can look like Michael Phelps


Step One: Adopt the Phelps Diet:

For Phelps, breakfast consists of 3 fried-egg sandwiches, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions, and mayonnaise, an omelette, a bowl of grits, and three slices of french toast with powdered sugar, all washed down with 3 chocolate chip pancakes.

You may want to make substitutions but the point is that you must consume between 8,000 and 10,000 calories a day.

Step Two: Swim. A lot.

http://www.faniq.com/blog/Video-Michael-Phelps-Breakfast-Diet-Consists-Of-French-Swimmers-Farm-Full-Of-Eggs-French-Toast-and-Pancakes-Blog-11008
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 04:45 PM
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1. Yeah, the swim a lot part might be really important.
:P
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BelleCarolinaPeridot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 04:45 PM
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2. All that just for breakfast?
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 04:45 PM
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3. And he still weighs under 200 lbs.
:o
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 04:47 PM
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4. You try swimming 5-6 hours a day
then see how much you need to eat just to stay alive.
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 10:58 AM
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28. my 5 foot 11 husband weighed 135 when he swam competitively in high school
and his mother told me he was a bottomless pit. This was not OLYMPIC level training, either; just normal highschool swim meet training.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 11:22 AM
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31. My brother was a slim swimmer with an endless appetite too.
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 11:22 AM
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32. I'm 6'1, and I could not break 160 in HS to save my life
I was a HS swimmer too, and I ate everything in sight.
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 04:47 PM
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5. I Heard He Had A Big Periscope
:rofl: :woohoo: :hi:
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 11:29 AM
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33. From what I've read about sex and the olympics
I'm sure more than a few have played submarine. All that testosterone has to be worked off somehow.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 04:47 PM
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6. Genetics would like to add that they helped.
But yeah, that's about right for any high-intensity athlete with that much caloric expenditure in a given day.
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pink-o Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:38 PM
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22. Being 23 years old certainly makes a diff as well!!
Guys all look pretty good in their 20s, elite athletes or not. Unlike us chicks, they're not usually self-conscious about their bodies, and so they don't do as many stupid things on the quest for impossible perfection. Not many yo-yo diet or starve themselves down to beanpoles--ergo, they don't mess with their metabolisms to the extent we do.

Unfortunately, most men as they age don't know how to modify their eating and exercise habits to suit their slowing metabolisms, and at 45 they still eat the same way they did at age 20. So far more women look better at 50 then their male counterparts--mostly cuz we've had years to work on it!
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Mr. Blonde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 04:52 PM
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41. All during my wrestling career girls asked how I lost so much weight
what was my diet etc. I was like well I don't really have to diet that much. Just use your basically every muscle in your body for 2-3 hours a day and you would be amazed how much weight you can lose.

Most ex-wrestlers seem to have weight problems afterwards. I'm working like hell to avoid that. I think not having a reason to not drink for six months out of the year will be the biggest problem.
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 04:55 PM
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7. Damn! I'm halfway to being an Olympic athlete!
Now I just need to start thinking about the swimming half.
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:00 PM
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8. Why would I **want** to?
I mean, really.

Bake
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:30 PM
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20. see post #10 n/t
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Twillig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 11:20 AM
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29. Exactly, To paraphrase Rabo Karabekian
"Why would I want to turn myself into an outboard motor?"
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Fox Mulder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:01 PM
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9. I'd rather not.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:01 PM
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10. I just keep on clicking this thread to look at the picture...
I'll be in my bunk.

:yoiks:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:03 PM
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12. I, for one, am interested in the rest of that tattoo...
:P
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:04 PM
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13. Likewise
I demand a congressional investigation. Expose the evidence!

:D
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:06 PM
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15. I haven't seen him at the Olympics.
But that picture does get my attention....
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:08 PM
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17. He's swimming again tonight, 2 races
He's really something else.

But yeah, that pic is...pleasing to the eye. ;)

:pals:
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 10:46 AM
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23. I'm shocked, I tell ya, SHOCKED!
Shocked that a so-called "progressive" would resort to such objectification of a talented and gifted (and I mean skills, not what's in his trunks :rofl:) athlete! Shocked shocked shocked!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Bake
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:03 PM
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11. Swim every waking hour
That you're not in the gym doing resistance training
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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:06 PM
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14. And you're not talking about splashing around in the pool, the kind of swimming
he does for hours every day would exhaust me to the point of unconsciousness in about 45 minutes.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:07 PM
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16. Butterfly Stroke. 10 hours at a time. Yeowch!
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 10:49 AM
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25. I can swim vigorously for about 30 minutes. Hours a day? No way.
My 8-year-old is on a swim team, and she can swim laps for two hours, alternating freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly. After my 30 minutes, I just sit and watch. :D
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:10 PM
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18. If you eat that much, you're going to spend hours on the crapper.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:35 PM
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21. If he spends all that time in the pool ...
then when (and more importantly, where) does he crap? You don't think...
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SKKY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 05:19 PM
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19. Sure, Women. If you can all look like this...
It's easy.

Step 1: Be hot.
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 10:49 AM
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24. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
:rofl:

:popcorn:
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 10:50 AM
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26. I get that he can burn off the calories, but what about things like cholesterol?
Is that cumulative, or does a high metabolism process it out quicker as he burns the calories?

:shrug:
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 11:21 AM
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30. I tend to be of the opinion
that some of these pursuits aren't exactly healthy.
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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 01:14 PM
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36. If anyone can handle the fat, sodium and calorie content of that diet, it's him. But the amount of
chemicals, preservatives, additives, HFCS and other crap in all that processed food has got to be staggering in the quantities he consumes. He's young now but I hope he starts adopting healthier eating habits, and if I were his coach or his mom I would be strongly suggesting it. It's like putting crappy fuel and used motor oil in a high performance race car.
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 10:53 AM
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27. Does he have the Olympic rings tattooed on his right hip?
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LeftinOH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 11:29 AM
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34. While watching him set swimming records, I was on the sofa eating pizza and drinking beer....
and thinking "hey- that looks easy"
:sarcasm:
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 12:02 PM
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35. he does burn a boatload of calories every day.
What a beautiful young man he is! :yoiks:
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 02:19 PM
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37. His face looks like Lurch.
I expect to see him chewing cud at any moment.

I'd swap bodies though. He can have my beat up and abused wreck of a shell of a body. :)
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mtnester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 02:31 PM
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38. Our son swam all through grade school, jr high, high school and some college
we had him on the bacon and ice cream diet when his body fat dropped to dangerous levels right before taper.

Whole milk, whole fat ice cream, bacon, and ensure drinks for WEEKS on end to keep him at 3% body fat.

Swimming as many hours a day as they do (even in high school during season, 4-5 hours, 2+ hours in the AM, 2+ hours in the after school) is physically demanding...then there is the lifting too.
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bullwinkle428 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 02:56 PM
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39. Phelps is swimming 5+ MILES A DAY at the Olympics,
factoring in all of his practice & warm-up laps!
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-08 02:56 PM
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40. Who's his nutritionist, Dr. Nick?
Now there are many options available for dangerously underweighted individuals like yourself. You'll want to focus on the neglected food groups such as the whipped group, the congealed group and the chocotastic!
Be creative. Instead of making sandwiches with bread, use poptarts. Instead of chewing gum, chew bacon, ...
Remember, if you're not sure about something, rub it against a piece of paper. If the paper turns clear, it's your window to weight gain.
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