Muhammad Ali’s Appetite

Why would you believe Ali?

 

Very good find. Young Cassius answers everything doesn’t he?

 

You have reason to be suspicious, considering Ali's track record.

That said, I'm not *that* skeptical, since (1) serving sizes were smaller back then, (2) Ali was a large man, and (3) Ali was probably burning tons of calories if this was close to a fight.

 

Must have taken some Herculean dumps.

 

“If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they’re crazier than I am" - Muhammad Ali.

 

Now look, you guys are all probably smaller to average sized folks so it might be skewing your idea of an acceptable meal size also factoring in serving sizes of the era too would help.

Muhammad was 6ft2 or so and a big fellow who happened to be on a champion boxers schedule he was always gonna eat a lot.

We know he had an appetite because even on his schedule the man could come in overweight. I’m a smaller guy myself but that doesn’t look like all that much. I could do it, but that’s till you factor in breakfast, snacks, dinner etc then I don’t have a horse in the race.

 

I have a book that says Sonny Liston had 2 dozen rashers of bacon and a dozen eggs for his breakfast!

 

Metabolisms even the fastest ones have a small difference in terms of calories required to burn off the extra weight. I believe a difference of 300 or so calories, that’s one slice of pizza really.

 

Look up what the olympic swimmer Michael Phelps was chowing down back while he was active. About Ali's size as well and burning massive amounts of calories training. Nothing too unbelievable, especially when we know Ali turned to diuretics late in his career as the weight caught up to him.