Michael Phelps

FACT FILE

• Full name Michael Fred Phelps II
• National team United States
• Born June 30, 1985 (age 31)
• Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
• Height 6 ft 4in Weight 194lb

CAREER

BREAKFAST

• Three fried-egg sandwiches with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.
• Two cups of coffee.
• One 5 egg omelet
• 3 slices of French toast with powdered sugar
• 3 chocolate chip pancakes

LUNCH

• 1 pound of pasta
• 2 ham and cheese sandwiches with mayonnaise on white bread
• Energy drinks

DINNER

• 1 pound of pasta
• Pizza
• Energy drink

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• That meal plan is about 12000 calories
• He ate that in 2008 and says he doesn't have as much anymore
• Along with his diet he trains 5 hours a day, 6 days a week

MARK KILON - SPORTS MEDICINE DOC

• Mark Klion, a sports medicine doc Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.
• "If you eat fewer calories than you burn exercising, you lose weight. But an athlete like Phelps, who exercises up a storm, has to worry about eating enough to replenish the scads of calories he’s burned."
• If he doesn’t, Klion explains, his “body won’t recover, the muscles will not recover" meaning he will have no energy

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• Basically, Phelps has upped his protein intake and isn't eating the same number of carbs.

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