French magician Yann Frisch performs one trick. Very well. He practices it, iterates it and improves it. And with his latest version, just won the top prize of the Beijing International Magic Convention.
Don’t blink.
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Michael Phelps: Eating Machine
When Michael Phelps retires from competitive swimming, he could very easily have a long outstanding career in competitive eating. Michael Phelps consumes about 12,000 calories a day. The average male eats around 2,000 calories a day, and competitive eating masters like Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut generally eat around 6,000 calories a day. Phelps takes in 6,000 calories more per day then a professional gurgitator? That is very impressive.
PHELPS’ PIG SECRET: HE’S BOY GORGE
Swimming sensation Michael Phelps has an Olympic recipe for success – and it involves eating a staggering 12,000 calories a day.
“Eat, sleep and swim. That’s all I can do,” Phelps, who won two more gold medals today, told NBC when asked what he needs to win medals. “Get some calories into my system and try to recover the best I can.”
By comparison, the average man of the same age needs to ingest about 2,000 calories a day.
Phelps, 23, will swim 17 times over nine days of competition at the Beijing Games – meaning that he will need all the calories he can shovel in his mouth in order to keep his energy levels high.
Phelps’ diet – which involves ingesting 4,000 calories every time he sits down for a meal – resembles that of a reckless overeater rather than an Olympian.
Phelps lends a new spin to the phrase “Breakfast of Champions” by starting off his day by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.
He follows that up with 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.
At lunch, Phelps gobbles up a pound of enriched pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches slathered with mayo on white bread – capping off the meal by chugging about 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.
For dinner, Phelps really loads up on the carbs – what he needs to give him plenty of energy for his five-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week regimen – with a pound of pasta and an entire pizza.
He washes all that down with another 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.
Phelps remains on course to at least equal Mark Spitz’s record of seven gold medals won at the 1972 Munich Games.
At these Summer Games, a typical day for Phelps starts with a 5 a.m. wake-up call. Most of his races have taken place between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET when in China – 12 hours ahead of East Coast time.
Rush Limbaugh put a humorous spin on this.
Michael Phelps, American Glutton, One-Man Global Warming Machine
And he is looked upon here as a great inspiration, a source of great American pride. The world is dazzled by this man. But that’s not the Michael Phelps that truly exists. Michael Phelps is the epitome, ladies and gentlemen, of The Ugly American. I found out today what he eats on a daily basis. I know he swims five hours a day and needs a lot of energy. Big producers do.
He’s produced a lot of medals, a lot of records. Big producers do need a lot of energy. But according to Obama and many on the left, Michael Phelps is just a glutton who cares not for the rest of the world. Twelve thousand calories a day Michael Phelps eats! Can I describe a typical day’s diet for Michael Phelps? His breakfast starts with three fried egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions, and mayonnaise. He follows that up, still at breakfast, with 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. At lunch, this glutton, who cares not for how much of the world’s resources he is using as a single American… Look, folks, you’ve seen the little ChiCom gymnasts. What do they weigh, 38 pounds? A couple of rice cakes, and they’re winning medals, too, and they’re not destroying. They’re not making a big carbon footprint with their rice cakes! They are behaving responsibly, according to Obama, the Lord Messiah. They’re still winning. They don’t have these big people out there. You know, the ChiComs in terms of stature, they’re small. They don’t require much, just a little rice and rice cakes, and that’s it. Look at what our guy is doing. No wonder we’re hated. And I just described breakfast. Let’s go to lunch. At lunch, Michael Phelps “gobbles up a pound of pasta, two large ham-and-cheese sandwiches slathered with mayonnaise on white bread.” I mean not only is this stealing from the rest of the world, it’s not even healthy, correct? He should be eating whole wheat bread and low-fat mayonnaise. But no, no, no, no! He’s going hog wild.