At his peak, Michael Phelps was consuming 10,000 calories a day. For anyone else, this would be enough to see us become a rotund mass, largely unable to move albeit for the small hand movements as we rubbed our ever-expanding bellies in discomfort. But then, Michael Phelps was something of a demi-god, a superhuman athlete burning staggering amounts of calories in the pool as he trained exhaustively.
Michael Phelps told about his gym workout
“At the gym, my wife and I lift three days a week for about an hour to an hour and a half. Then, the other days we typically do some type of cardio. We might do it together, we might not. She’ll do Pilates and yoga, whereas I’ll swim or hop on the elliptical or something.”
Michael Phelps Concluded
“For 25 years, eating was a part of my job, it was a part of my profession. Because of that, I have a deep understanding of what my body needs. I’m not trying to plow food into my system now. It’s different. After I retired I put on 30 to 35 pounds to end up at just under 230. It was a significant body change for me, and I knew that I had to get back into some kind of routine.”
