
The fact is, most Olympians eat more than the usual Recommended Daily Allowance levels of 2,000 calories per day, with most of those extra calories used as fuel to power their intensive training sessions. To give you a rough idea of what goes into a typical Olympian diet, the UK-based National Health Service, for instance, published this 6,000-calorie, five-meals-a-day recommended Olympian diet. So what other diets do Olympians take before the biggest sporting event of their lives? Here are three broad diets.





