Quote:...Phelps is built perfectly for swimming. He is double jointed which allows him to push his stroke through more radians, he is over 6 feet tall adding lots of kick power, his body shape is tear drop shaped making him more aqualine, and he has 14 inch <strike>flippers</strike> feet. And, he trains his butt off.
And of course I'm amazed just by the effort Phelps puts into training. He has been eating a 12,000 calorie a day diet for months and he burns all that off or converts it more muscle as he still sits at only 4% body fat. Burning that many calories every day for months. All that nutrition data that is reported on the food we buy here in the US is based on 2000 calorie diet. I did some calorie watching last week for myself, I only took in 10,000 over 7 days (but then again I don't do a hell of a lot some weeks). It's crazy the work he puts in to be that fast, even if he is using drugs, he is still putting in crazy amounts of work to be that good.
”There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.
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