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Posted by rich on August 24, 2008
Note: You can also view the video in high definition here on Vimeo.
Over the past week and a half, there’s been tons of talk about Michael Phelps’ performance at the Olympics; his eight gold medals, his world records, and his eating habits. Most people wondered how in the hell Phelps could shovel down 12,000 calories a day in food without having his heart stop. Is it humanly possible to eat that much? Well, we put it to the test. Rich and Kevin from Sportable and Kyle, one of our loyal readers, attempted to tackle one of Phelps’ meals in a gold medal food competition. The results were less than world record worthy.
Kevin had breakfast, which was:
Three egg sandwiches
A five-egg omelet
A bowl of oatmeal (Phelps eats grits)
Three slices of French toast
Three chocolate chip pancakes
Two cups of coffee
Kyle had lunch:
One pound of pasta
Two ham sandwiches
One protein/energy shake
Rich had dinner:
One pound of pasta
A large supreme pizza
One protein/energy shake
peter said,
August 22, 2008 @ 1:52 am
“IT TASTES LIKE SPAGHETTIIIIIIIIIII”
asita said,
August 22, 2008 @ 10:31 am
Wow…Kevin’s performance was pretty amazing. Not sure we needed to watch/hear you guys puke, but yeah this just further convinces me that Michael Phelps is in fact, not human.
Sonny said,
August 22, 2008 @ 11:18 am
Tight rich pulling a balke on his pasta.
kevin said,
August 22, 2008 @ 11:59 am
imagine trying to eat all that food while hearing rich and kyle throwing up a just a few dozen feet away from you. it was tough.
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Greg said,
August 22, 2008 @ 2:26 pm
Hilarious article, I awarded you 3 bleeping idiot of the week.
peter said,
August 23, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
haha, you guys are “bleeping idiots”
Christina said,
August 25, 2008 @ 12:26 am
Wow. That guys with the glasses must have iron stomach muscles and no gag reflex.
Hunter said,
August 25, 2008 @ 10:40 am
Christina said,
August 25, 2008 @ 12:26 am
Wow. That guys with the glasses must have iron stomach muscles and no gag reflex.
It’s more likely that he had the meal with the least amount of carbs and most amount of protein. Making his meal less filling than the other 2 carb loaded pasta meals. Still a good try though at attempting to consume 12,000 calories Phelps style, I would say you guys probably downed about 6,000 k cals.
lol said,
August 25, 2008 @ 5:20 pm
LOL
Don’t forget how much water a day a swimmer is required to drink- that would fill a normal person up on its own!
3 Bloggers try to eat the Michael Phelps Breakfast, Video | NESW Sports, Sports Videos said,
August 26, 2008 @ 9:13 am
[...] tip for this video goes to Sportable for the vid. Good job [...]