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Post by sunnyirish08 on Aug 1, 2012 5:22:25 GMT -5
yup, looking forward to watching Bolt  i think we have one or two competing in track. |
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Post by gbird on Aug 1, 2012 5:24:10 GMT -5
yup, looking forward to watching Bolt i think we have one or two competing in track. I remember during the last Olympics trying to watch Bolt on my PC and it kept buffering. By the time it caught up it was all over  |
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Post by sunnyirish08 on Aug 1, 2012 5:39:03 GMT -5
yeah, t.v can barely keep up with the guy, let alone the any of the online streams. lol
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Post by Diana on Aug 1, 2012 8:54:31 GMT -5
why is it then that commentators are commenting on the fact Phelps can have his favourite dessert soon.  yeah, michelle smith got a ban for using illegal substance, but her medals were never taken away. as much as i like to give the chinese the benefit of the doubt here, i've always been a little suspicious, which is rather sad to be honest Sunny - I don't know about the sports commentators in Ireland but here in America ours aren't exactly known for doing research and/or being the sharpest tool in the shed, if you know I what I mean.  Anyway, below is a copy of an article from the 2008 Olympics that basically outlines what Michael Phelps eats in a day.
The Michael Phelps Diet: Don’t Try It at Home
By Sarah Rubenstein
Swimmer Michael Phelps’s next career may be in competitive eating. Besides grabbing five gold medals at the Beijing Olympics so far, making him the winningest Olympic athlete ever, he’s got to be setting new marks on the chow line.
A New York Post account of Phelps’s… wait for it… 12,000-calorie-a-day diet, gave us a stomachache. Could one human being really consume that much and still be in Phelps’s shape? And could this possibly be healthy for Phelps, even considering his five-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week exercise regimen?
Here’s Phelps’s typical menu. (No, he doesn’t choose among these options. He eats them all, according to the Post.)
Breakfast: Three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise. Two cups of coffee. One five-egg omelet. One bowl of grits. Three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar. Three chocolate-chip pancakes.
Lunch: One pound of enriched pasta. Two large ham and cheese sandwiches with mayo on white bread. Energy drinks packing 1,000 calories.
Dinner: One pound of pasta. An entire pizza. More energy drinks.
Does a diet like this make sense even for a calorie-incinerating human swimming machine? We checked in with Mark Klion, a sports medicine doc and orthopedic surgeon at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. He reminded us that the eating game all comes down to basic math.
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, there will not be adequate energy stored for him to compete in his next event.”
But what about the choice of foods? All those eggs and ham and cheese can’t possibly be good for him, can they? Says Klion, “I think for him, because of his caloric demands, he can probably eat whatever he wants to.” And besides, Klion says, if you’ve got to eat that much, it better be enjoyable, or you won’t be able to keep up. Phelps might not be so eager to shovel down a pound of tofu in a sitting, Klion points out.
Still, Klion cautions that he knows plenty of athletes who’ve been training for marathons and have gained weight because they thought they could eat whatever they wanted. So it really does take some planning. Some resources on the Web might help, such as this calorie-use chart from the American Heart Association and a calorie calculator from Runner’s World magazine. This calculator from the Calorie Control Council includes a bunch of different activities, from dusting to playing ice hockey.
But these kinds of calculators don’t really apply to a someone like Phelps, who exercises way more vigorously than the typical person, says Kathleen Laquale, an athletic trainer and nutritionist who teaches at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. Even by athletic standards, Phelps is in his own league. Laquale says cyclists in the Tour de France commonly consume a paltry 8,000 to 10,000 calories a day.
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Post by biochemgeek on Aug 1, 2012 9:05:50 GMT -5
 I feel ill just reading about that diet. But it obviously works for him.
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Post by margarine on Aug 1, 2012 9:47:14 GMT -5
Keep forgetting about the athletics , lots more exciting stuff to come. Me too! When a commercial comes on with the runners and jumpers and throwers, I think, "Oh wow, none of that has even happened yet!" |
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Post by gbird on Aug 1, 2012 9:57:31 GMT -5
Keep forgetting about the athletics , lots more exciting stuff to come. Me too! When a commercial comes on with the runners and jumpers and throwers, I think, "Oh wow, none of that has even happened yet!" |
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Post by sunnyirish08 on Aug 1, 2012 11:25:19 GMT -5
why is it then that commentators are commenting on the fact Phelps can have his favourite dessert soon. yeah, michelle smith got a ban for using illegal substance, but her medals were never taken away. as much as i like to give the chinese the benefit of the doubt here, i've always been a little suspicious, which is rather sad to be honest Sunny - I don't know about the sports commentators in Ireland but here in America ours aren't exactly known for doing research and/or being the sharpest tool in the shed, if you know I what I mean. Anyway, below is a copy of an article from the 2008 Olympics that basically outlines what Michael Phelps eats in a day.
The Michael Phelps Diet: Don’t Try It at Home
By Sarah Rubenstein
Swimmer Michael Phelps’s next career may be in competitive eating. Besides grabbing five gold medals at the Beijing Olympics so far, making him the winningest Olympic athlete ever, he’s got to be setting new marks on the chow line.
A New York Post account of Phelps’s… wait for it… 12,000-calorie-a-day diet, gave us a stomachache. Could one human being really consume that much and still be in Phelps’s shape? And could this possibly be healthy for Phelps, even considering his five-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week exercise regimen?
Here’s Phelps’s typical menu. (No, he doesn’t choose among these options. He eats them all, according to the Post.)
Breakfast: Three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise. Two cups of coffee. One five-egg omelet. One bowl of grits. Three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar. Three chocolate-chip pancakes.
Lunch: One pound of enriched pasta. Two large ham and cheese sandwiches with mayo on white bread. Energy drinks packing 1,000 calories.
Dinner: One pound of pasta. An entire pizza. More energy drinks.
Does a diet like this make sense even for a calorie-incinerating human swimming machine? We checked in with Mark Klion, a sports medicine doc and orthopedic surgeon at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. He reminded us that the eating game all comes down to basic math.
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, there will not be adequate energy stored for him to compete in his next event.”
But what about the choice of foods? All those eggs and ham and cheese can’t possibly be good for him, can they? Says Klion, “I think for him, because of his caloric demands, he can probably eat whatever he wants to.” And besides, Klion says, if you’ve got to eat that much, it better be enjoyable, or you won’t be able to keep up. Phelps might not be so eager to shovel down a pound of tofu in a sitting, Klion points out.
Still, Klion cautions that he knows plenty of athletes who’ve been training for marathons and have gained weight because they thought they could eat whatever they wanted. So it really does take some planning. Some resources on the Web might help, such as this calorie-use chart from the American Heart Association and a calorie calculator from Runner’s World magazine. This calculator from the Calorie Control Council includes a bunch of different activities, from dusting to playing ice hockey.
But these kinds of calculators don’t really apply to a someone like Phelps, who exercises way more vigorously than the typical person, says Kathleen Laquale, an athletic trainer and nutritionist who teaches at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. Even by athletic standards, Phelps is in his own league. Laquale says cyclists in the Tour de France commonly consume a paltry 8,000 to 10,000 calories a day.
i remember reading this 4 years ago. a lot of food. as for the ice-cream sundae comment, i've heard them mentioning it a couple of times in commentary. so i was presuming he hasn't eaten any in a couple of years. |
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Post by gbird on Aug 2, 2012 7:17:37 GMT -5
Looking forward to Phelps versus Lochte tonight.
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Post by sunnyirish08 on Aug 2, 2012 10:31:09 GMT -5
excellent *rubs hands with glee* should be good
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Post by margarine on Aug 2, 2012 20:07:48 GMT -5
I was just wondering, can anybody explain how they go through the games like volleyball, where you can have more than one team from the same country? How do they fix it so the top teams don't end up being from the same country?
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Post by gbird on Aug 3, 2012 3:10:37 GMT -5
I was just wondering, can anybody explain how they go through the games like volleyball, where you can have more than one team from the same country? How do they fix it so the top teams don't end up being from the same country? Thats a good point, I had never really thought of that. We have had a lot of news coverage about the badminton where the teams were thought to be trying to loose so that they dont have to play other teams from their own country , but it must be very difficult to manage. |
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Post by sunnyirish08 on Aug 3, 2012 4:16:00 GMT -5
micheal phelps i salute you sir, 20 medals. wow. enjoy your "retirement" |
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Post by gbird on Aug 3, 2012 4:30:37 GMT -5
micheal phelps i salute you sir, 20 medals. wow. enjoy your "retirement" And such a nice guy when he is interviewed , deserves everyone of his medals and more |
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Post by sunnyirish08 on Aug 3, 2012 8:09:44 GMT -5
interactive channel on bbc is down :@ bah, no interest in the sailing
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i think we have one or two competing in track.
Anyway, below is a copy of an article from the 2008 Olympics that basically outlines what Michael Phelps eats in a day.
I feel ill just reading about that diet.
Sept 22, 2013 7:25:03 GMT -5
Sept 22, 2013 7:25:03 GMT -5