http://www.outsideonline.com/fitness/skiing/nordic-ski-like-Simi-Hamilton.html
10,000. Thats over 90 bananas for all you letsrunners. Is he for real?
10,000. Thats over 90 bananas for all you letsrunners. Is he for real?
no way wrote:
http://www.outsideonline.com/fitness/skiing/nordic-ski-like-Simi-Hamilton.html10,000. Thats over 90 bananas for all you letsrunners. Is he for real?
Ah, the exaggeration of caloric consumption strikes again. 90's Bodybuilder Victor Richards claimed to consume 20,000 or more calories a day, often reaching 30,000.
Serge Nubret claimed to eat 9 pounds of red meat a day.
Thierry Pastel claimed to lift weights 8 hours a day.
Gerry Lindgren claimed to run extreme mileage and unheard of times.
Sasha K claims these folks are intense liars.
B as in B, S as in S.
I can eat a large pizza, just C/P.
Hey Sasha, are you 'the Croc runner'?
Was the T Pastel body built with the aid of drugs?
I've seen a guy on my team legitimately average over 8000 calories/day over a three day period during hard training. He wasn't being a hero and at the time he was thin.
I think 10,000+ calories are totally possible if you are training the way he is for several days in a row.
When you are training 20+ hours a week with weight sessions and intervals thrown in you get pretty hungry. Especially if you've been doing it for several days in a row.
I've never gotten to the point when running training that I could eat whatever I want. I just can't run enough to burn that many calories.
When I'm skiing or cycling I can get much hungrier because the total workload is higher.
xcskier66 wrote:
I've seen a guy on my team legitimately average over 8000 calories/day over a three day period during hard training. He wasn't being a hero and at the time he was thin.
I think 10,000+ calories are totally possible if you are training the way he is for several days in a row.
When you are training 20+ hours a week with weight sessions and intervals thrown in you get pretty hungry. Especially if you've been doing it for several days in a row.
I've never gotten to the point when running training that I could eat whatever I want. I just can't run enough to burn that many calories.
When I'm skiing or cycling I can get much hungrier because the total workload is higher.
Did you actually COUNT those calories? Perspective: 10,000 is EIGHTEEN Big Macs every single day. Unless you are already a massive person (with a massive stomach) it's just not possible with regular food—even junk food. If you are legitimately hitting 10k a day you're either chugging a lot of protein shakes throughout the day, or you're eating bucketfuls of ice cream around the clock.
asdfasdfsf wrote:
xcskier66 wrote:I've seen a guy on my team legitimately average over 8000 calories/day over a three day period during hard training. He wasn't being a hero and at the time he was thin.
I think 10,000+ calories are totally possible if you are training the way he is for several days in a row.
When you are training 20+ hours a week with weight sessions and intervals thrown in you get pretty hungry. Especially if you've been doing it for several days in a row.
I've never gotten to the point when running training that I could eat whatever I want. I just can't run enough to burn that many calories.
When I'm skiing or cycling I can get much hungrier because the total workload is higher.
Did you actually COUNT those calories? Perspective: 10,000 is EIGHTEEN Big Macs every single day. Unless you are already a massive person (with a massive stomach) it's just not possible with regular food—even junk food. If you are legitimately hitting 10k a day you're either chugging a lot of protein shakes throughout the day, or you're eating bucketfuls of ice cream around the clock.
it's easier to think about how many calories he would need to burn - even if you say his basal metabolic rate is 2,000 calories a day, he has to burn 8,000 calories exercising? So, say he's burning 700 calories an hour, so he's training 11 1/2 hours a day? This seems very unlikely.
Oh really? You might want to do a google search on Michael Phelps peak daily caloric intake and report back.
listen up... wrote:
Oh really? You might want to do a google search on Michael Phelps peak daily caloric intake and report back.
Yeah, it's because he was full of crap too. It's how these urban myths start and why others will repeat them.
http://www.infobarrel.com/Why_Michael_Phelps_12000_Calorie_Diet_is_Fake'urban myths'? Uhhh, yeah, sure thing there buddy.
#sigh
#facepalm
listen up... wrote:
Oh really? You might want to do a google search on Michael Phelps peak daily caloric intake and report back.
I googled Michael Phelps and all that came up was his drunk driving.
And that bong picture
of all the caloric intake claims I've heard, I believe them most from nordic skiers. He's probably estimating, and likely exaggerating a bit, but I bet most of the top nordic skiers are up there on intake. I'm not sure if its the cold weather or the fact that skiing uses a wider range of muscles but I've always found I need way more food when I trained for nordic skiing. I did moderate ski training in high school, and I'd say my caloric intake during those months is similar to what I eat now in college, running 100mi weeks. I imagine a professional, with multiple ski/lifting sessions per day is putting away serious calories. Keep in mind too, he weighs quite a bit more than the typical runner doing 100mile weeks.
metabolic rate of about 1500 calories a day. the next 8500 calories would take about 85 miles of running per day. or for an exceptionally fit skier or cyclists, you're looking at about 10-12 hours on the bike or skis. ummmmmm, no.
burn this shiite wrote:
Ummmmmm, no.
Ummmmmmmmmmmmm, yes; particularly if putting mega-hours in a pool daily, while adding some oily food to the diet.
We assume he burns 2000 cals a day sedentary. 8000 left by exercising. I assume he is tall, muscular and weighs a lot.
I assume he burns 1000 cals/hour excersising.
He must train 8+ hours every day.
BULLSHIT
First point is that just because you consume 10000 Calories it does not mean you absorb them.
I could believe someone could consume that much during peak training. I've fallen behind with eating at times during heavy training - and for me that would be paltry in comparison to an elite - and taken in around 5k in a day. I have little trouble believing an elite could binge on double that for a short time, probably while playing catch-up.
But yes, exaggeration is often the nature of the beast.
yes, really.... wrote:
Yeah, it's because he was full of crap too. It's how these urban myths start and why others will repeat them.
http://www.infobarrel.com/Why_Michael_Phelps_12000_Calorie_Diet_is_Fake
Interesting that the author of that article was written by someone called tRex (who states that his favourite dinosaur is the Tyrannosaurus Rex).