QOD: "I eat 5000 calories per day" Hasay - BS

Maybe she's got a worm.

She can have mine.

If she means she eats a huge amount that would be as much as Meb, but not 5000 cal per day.

Yeah, about three tape worms.

Mr. Wormsley wrote:

Maybe she's got a worm.

5,000 really isn't that much.

2000 is the average, and most non-active couch potatoes i know eat more than that. Wake Up

Phelps used to eat 12,000 calories per day during high volume training.

Yes, it's obviously B.S. I don't see why distance runners have to be in the closet about the fact that they starve themselves. Distance running is a sport where performance is a function of strength in relation to body weight. Wrestlers don't hide the fact that they are obsessive about their weight.

jamin wrote:

Yes, it's obviously B.S. I don't see why distance runners have to be in the closet about the fact that they starve themselves. Distance running is a sport where performance is a function of strength in relation to body weight. Wrestlers don't hide the fact that they are obsessive about their weight.

Are you trolling?

Everybody on my college team ate like hogs. In fact, the girls used to constantly berate themselves as they went back for seconds and thirds at the dining hall, got froyos, ate decadent sundaes, etc etc. They were all still mostly rail thin... Now, unless they were all secretly bulimic...

jamin wrote:

Yes, it's obviously B.S. I don't see why distance runners have to be in the closet about the fact that they starve themselves. Distance running is a sport where performance is a function of strength in relation to body weight. Wrestlers don't hide the fact that they are obsessive about their weight.

That's because there are weight classes in wrestling. There are no weight classes in running.

Oozzoi wrote:

jamin wrote:

Yes, it's obviously B.S. I don't see why distance runners have to be in the closet about the fact that they starve themselves. Distance running is a sport where performance is a function of strength in relation to body weight. Wrestlers don't hide the fact that they are obsessive about their weight.

That's because there are weight classes in wrestling. There are no weight classes in running.

In both athletic events getting to a lower body weight while retaining or improving strength results in more success. Ditto cycling, ballet (is that considered an athletic event?), for other examples. Most people who do these sports are embarrassed to admit that they monitor their weight. It's kinda understandable, considering that their friends and relatives will say things like "You don't need to lose weight! You're already thin!"

This 5000 calories a day is simply unbelievable to me. I use myself as a comparison.

I am a marathoner in my mid twenties who has run in the 2 teens. I run 120 to 130 miles a week. I weigh about 130 so I'm not a big guy but huge compared to Jordan. I don't keep exact count but from my estimation I consume between 3000-4000 calories a day. I have no idea how I could consume 5000 calories without feeling bloated and sluggish all the time. Maybe a lot of energy drinks and shakes. But I feel like I would gain weight despite training as much as I do.

How someone who runs about 75% less than me and weighs a lot less, can't imagine she's much over 100 could consume 5000 calories a day seems impossible. I feel like being part of salazars group they have nutrition so dialed in they should know exactly how much they are consuming.

She must drop some monster deuces, 2-3x a day

Eat plants

Please stop acting like you know anything about running.

When did Jordan say this? What's the context here?

Where is the source for this quote? Maybe she's upped her mileage and is doing over 150 a week now. Maybe she does a lot of supplemental training or is active outside of running. 5000 is possible for an elite athlete. The other possibilities are that she isn't good at counting calories or is deliberately misleading her competition in the hopes they get fat.

This is the source:

http://www.ksby.com/story/30865958/running-resolution-some-advice-from-nike-runner-jordan-hasay?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_KSBY

huh, where?? wrote:

Are you trolling?

Everybody on my college team ate like hogs. In fact, the girls used to constantly berate themselves as they went back for seconds and thirds at the dining hall, got froyos, ate decadent sundaes, etc etc. They were all still mostly rail thin... Now, unless they were all secretly bulimic...

I don't know about your team, but eating disorders were absolutely rampant on my school's girls team. Some of the girls made a point of eating a lot in front of other people, but were secretly anorexic. People would look the other way because "oh, she eats dessert all the time! She must be healthy, she's running really fast this season" when the girl would drop a lot of weight and inevitably get a series of bizarre, career-ending injuries.

If you look at it mathematically,

BMR:

Hasay weighs 5'4", now, her weight isn't listed anywhere, but I'll assume it's 100lbs. With those stats her BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) is 1300 calories. This is AT REST WITH NO EXERCISE. Obviously, her metabolism could just be relatively faster than most at her height/weight. But these numbers don't change by anything significant usually.

Running:

She says she averages 100mpw. About 100 calories are burnt per mile. Based on height/weight (she would be at the lower end of this range). This means she runs on average 14 miles per day. Burning 1400 cals in running and (I'll give her the benefit of doubt) 1350 cals metabolically. So to maintain 100lbs she would only need to eat 2750 cals. So we'll round it to 3000 calories burnt per day with running.

Unless she's burning 2000 calories in lifting/cross training, etc (highly doubt) that are unaccounted for there is no way she eats 5000 cals per day.

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