How is Michael Phelps able to eat 12000 calories a day?

Question

Why doesn't he gain fat? And how is it possible to burn enough calories to be eating that many calories? calories in>calories out?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

swimming burns alot of calories.  

Answer 3

swimming burns a lot of calories. And he swims A LOT! just like he said.. he only eats, swims and sleeps.

Answer 4

he doesnt have a soul lol he burns that much in a day really high metabolism hes filled with demons

Answer 5

by swimming for 6 hours a day!!

he HAS to eat that much.If not then he wont have the energy to do what he does

Answer 6

Muscle burns way more calories than fat - of which this fellow clearly has none. His job is to work out, so his metabolism is revved just about as high as it can go, therefore he can burn thousands of calories a day even while inactive.

Answer 7

He trains soooo hard.  He is an amazing athlete with a lot of energy.  Swimming burns a lot of calories and since he trains really hard, he needs to eat A LOT.  

Answer 8

he's a swimmer, which means working your *** off

he is soooo amazing and i support him

though, if i ate that many calories in one day, i would NEVER forgive myself