I notice a HUGE increase in my appetite when I'm swimming every day versus when I'm not swimming. Yes, it's obvious that when you work out you burn more calories and therefore become more hungry. But even when I eat something, 20 minutes later I find myself back in the kitchen looking for more. Will this hunger ever end?????
An average swimmer burns 400-600 calories an hour while swimming. Olympic swimmers who train more than the average swimmer burn up to 10,000 calories a day! Michael Phelps' breakfast is enough for some people to eat throughout their whole day. His normal breakfast consists of three fried egg sandwiches with cheese, tomato, lettuce, fried onions and mayonnaise, an omelette, a bowl of grits, three chocolate-chip pancakes, and three slices of French toast. I'm full just thinking about all of that!
In my own life, I see how much swimmers eat on a daily basis. I live in a room with 8 girls, 6 of them being swimmers. I can tell you that if you walk into our room at ANY point in the day, one of us will be eating something. When we go to Boulder, our school cafeteria which is all you can eat for dinner, swimmers are guaranteed to be seen going up for at least a third serving of food. Some boys on my team spend over an hour in the dining hall because they're making sure they're full before they leave.
I always think about what my eating habits will be like once I leave college and stop swimming at the intensity I do now.
1- I hope I don't continue eating as many calories as I do now.
2- I better find some other efficient form of exercise because I'll blow up like a balloon if I don't.
p.s. I write this as I consume a large bowl of spaghetti and meatballs
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