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Originally Posted by BlueToBlue
My calories came in at about 1300 today with 111g of protein. So if I just increased my portions until I was at 12,000 calories, I'd be eating over 1,000g of protein. At 500g of protein on 12,000 calories, only 17% of Phelps's calories come from protein. Even folks around here that don't eat much protein are eating more protein than that!
It makes me wonder--if Phelps was eating 12,000 calories of really healthy food, would he be any faster? I suppose when you've won eight gold medals in a single Olympics, you don't really care about being any faster than you are. But it would still be interesting to know. I also wonder if he were eating more nutritious foods, would he still need to eat 12,000 calories a day. Or does he have to eat that much because some of the calories he's eating aren't really providing much in the way of nutrition.
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I doubt you can apply recommended percentages across the board like that. I really expect they are developed across an average range of calories. I would assume that if one's calorie intake is very very low, the protein percentage would go up, and if it's very very high, it would go down. While his protein requirements are surely high, the majority of his extra calories needs are just for energy expenditure.
But I quite agree that from a nutritional point of view, his food makes me cringe.
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