9 Foods an Athlete Would Never Eat

Well let's put out a list of Olympians that eat junk food:

Michael Phelps
Janet Evans
Shaun White (snowboarder)
Lolo Jones
Shani Davis (speedskater)
Kikkan Randall

The writer of this article is a mouthpiece for Men's Fitness. While I'm not against any form of eating more nutritionally dense foods, I'm also not against eating foods that aren't nutritionally dense in moderation.
She's more than likely wrote the article (with just correlative studies to back her claims of how bad the foods are) to appease the readers who are "clean eating" and probably are missing some junk food.
Athlete's will likely burn more than the average gym goer or people who do daily exercise for health and fitness. Most athletes train an average of 4 hours or more on their sport, so in that 4 hours, they can't feel "full" because it would affect their performance. So if they do burn 4,000-6,000 calories in a day that's an awful lot of "clean" food to consume and they would be full at least 16 hours of the day trying to achieve that.
I would love to see her rebuttal if she read the foods that the above actually ate daily.

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Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

Oh for goodness' sake. The neverending flood of these articles is part of the reason so many people have distorted ideas about weight loss, health, and fitness.

...What's "wrong" with microwave popcorn?

I work with a coach who is a retired professional athlete and also was a strength and conditioning coach at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado...he currently coaches some fitness minded people like myself, but also still coach's quite a few collegiate, semi-pro, and professional athletes...let's just say that in RE to number 8...a lot of them can drink me under the table; and I'm no light weight either.

As far as coach goes, he eats granola like it's the only food on the planet...he doesn't have time for anything else I don't think.

I do not like rice cakes or diet soda though...eeewwww

What a Tour de France rider eats during the tour

Things he eats that are on the list:

Rice Cakes
Cereal


I guess he's a terrible athlete. You should have higher expectations than someone who has won multiple stages of the Tour de France.

ninerbuff wrote: »

Well let's put out a list of Olympians that eat junk food:

Michael Phelps
Janet Evans
Shaun White (snowboarder)
Lolo Jones
Shani Davis (speedskater)
Kikkan Randall

The writer of this article is a mouthpiece for Men's Fitness. While I'm not against any form of eating more nutritionally dense foods, I'm also not against eating foods that aren't nutritionally dense in moderation.
She's more than likely wrote the article (with just correlative studies to back her claims of how bad the foods are) to appease the readers who are "clean eating" and probably are missing some junk food.
Athlete's will likely burn more than the average gym goer or people who do daily exercise for health and fitness. Most athletes train an average of 4 hours or more on their sport, so in that 4 hours, they can't feel "full" because it would affect their performance. So if they do burn 4,000-6,000 calories in a day that's an awful lot of "clean" food to consume and they would be full at least 16 hours of the day trying to achieve that.
I would love to see her rebuttal if she read the foods that the above actually ate daily.

A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

oh snap

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

kaseyr1505 wrote: »

...What's "wrong" with microwave popcorn?

The fumes after popping have been linked to producing chemicals known to increase the incidence of cancer.

FIFY...and that's a HUGE distinction.

usmcmp wrote: »

Apparently I am not an athlete since I have violated (and will continue to violate) all of these.

msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/9-foods-an-athlete-would-never-eat/ss-AAc3Nc

You do know that any link that has a title like "10 things...","Ten ways...", "9 reasons why you should..","11 reasons why you shouldn't", "12 facts about X that are false", etc., just link to clickbait articles, which are often inaccurate, that are meant to get you curious enough to click on so the site can generate more views and thus more ad revenue?

I'm not an athlete; I just like to lift. But the only thing I consume on that list is alcohol because the rest of the crap makes me feel *kitten*. (Actually so does alcohol if I have too much of it haha.)

kaseyr1505 wrote: »

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

kaseyr1505 wrote: »

...What's "wrong" with microwave popcorn?

The fumes after popping have been linking to cancer.

I've been stuck in California for the last three years. There's a prop 65 thing on pretty much everything. When we got our water service, there was a Prop 65 warning. So... I should stop eating/breathing/driving/being outside/wearing sunscreen/drinking anything?

All prop 65 does is help protect establishments from being frivilous sued by people who make dumb claims of chemicals they've ingested in food. Lots of the same chemicals are in raw foods they buy at grocery or farmers markets.
In a way a good proposition to help protect places that sell food/drink items. Ignorance shouldn't be a reason why people get to sue people.

A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

kaseyr1505 wrote: »

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

kaseyr1505 wrote: »

...What's "wrong" with microwave popcorn?

The fumes after popping have been linking to cancer.

I've been stuck in California for the last three years. There's a prop 65 thing on pretty much everything. When we got our water service, there was a Prop 65 warning. So... I should stop eating/breathing/driving/being outside/wearing sunscreen/drinking anything?

I have no idea what prop65 is, but no, I would not suggest you stop eating/breathing/driving/being outside/wearing sunscreen/drinking anything? But you might not want to inhale deeply over a freshly popped bag of microwave popcorn.