Michael Phelps is a phenomenal athlete and it has to do with a few things. Michael works out hard, very hard with 5 hours a day working out and training as well as goal setting an a giant diet. In fact the most I have ever been able to eat is around 5,000 calories a day when I was doing a lot of weightlifting, Michael Phelps eats 12,000 calories a day every day.

According to nutritionists, the average man of the same age and height (Phelps is 6′4″) should be ingesting about 2,000 calories a day. By comparison, Phelps consumes a staggering (doctor-approved) 12,000 calories probably a weeks worth of food for a mere mortal in a single day.

Here is a typical Michael Phelps breakfast: Three fried-egg sandwiches topped with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise. And that’s just to get his stomach warmed up for the main portion of his breakfast, which includes two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes. Read the rest of this entry »

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We have all watched as Michael Phelps has seemed for the last week to be completely unbeatable in a crowded sport, swimming, that has a low barrier of entry for people and is very very competitive. Michael Phelps ended up winning all of his eight events with records in seven of them. This after winning six Gold medals in the Athens Olympics four years ago.

I heard a little bit of an interview with Micheal Phelps yesterday and someone asked him how he could break all the swimming records and if his records will ever be broken. He said:

“Everything is possible if you dream. My coach helped me to dream big. When I got to him he said to me that I should dream big. He told me to dream as big as you can.”

Five hours of training a day and an attitude that he would win, noth that he hoped that he would win but he dremed big that he would win his Olympic gold medals.