Dylan Armstrong Diet

At over 6 foot 4 Dylan Armstrong, a silver medallist at the world championships for shot put weighs 345 pounds.

How many calories goes in to the making of an Olympic athlete? For Dylan Armstrong, the number is 9,000 calories per day.

“When I think back, we ate massive amounts of food,” Armstrong said. “I was a growing boy. We used to get crazy on Sunday mornings. My buddies would come over and we’d cook up like 60 eggs, eat two packs of bacon, stuff like that.”

“I need anywhere from 6,500 to 9,000 calories [per day]. It’s up there. But it’s easy to eat a lot of calories. I like a lot of salmon. Obviously, beef and chicken. I’m on a high-protein, low-carb diet. I’ll eat five or six times a day. I’m more of a grazer. I try to eat healthy. It does help performance.”

But gaining mass is not the only objective of the shot put. “Speed matters most, I need to be light on my feet throughout the throw.” Armstrong, during his high school track and field career jumped 1.90metres in the high jump weighing a mere 245 pounds.

[quote_center]”When you’re training hard, you’re always hungry.” [/quote_center]

Armstrong said if he could choose only one food the rest of his life it would be steak, and his personal-best is a 50-ounce slab consumed at a Texas steak house.

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