As most people know Michael Phelps won 8 gold medals during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, setting the record for most golds in an Olympic games. Before he won those medals, people thought that it was inconceivable. How could one person swim that much and that fast in a period of a week. Some of his heats would only be 40 minutes apart. That is ridiculous, it is unheard of. Michael Phelps had the help of his ridiculous diet containing 10,000 calories daily. An average person is only supposed to have 2,000 calories in one day. For breakfast, he eats three fried egg sandwiches; cheese; tomatoes; lettuce; fried onions; mayonnaise; three chocolate-chip pancakes; five-egg omelet; three sugar-coated slices of french toast; bowl of grits; two cups of coffee. For lunch Phelps eats half-kilogram (one pound) of enriched pasta; two large ham and cheese sandwiches with mayonnaise on white bread; energy drinks, and for dinner he has half-kilogram of pasta, with carbona sauce; large pizza; energy drinks. (Diet courtesy of BBC News). With all that food, it explains many reasons why he has so much energy. Everyday, he spends at least five hours just burning off most of those calories. Between training and swimming, he needs that many calories, so he can burn them all off. Michael Phelps is an extraordinary man, not only does he win medals, but he does something with the fame gained. He helps children exercise and does what he can to promote a healthy life. Nobody else could do what Phelps did, and no one would be able to handle the consumption of that many calories in one day everyday. That's what it takes to get that much energy to be crazy like Michael Phelps.
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