Many athletes today turn to raw, plant-based foods. Kazakhstan’s Olympic wrestlers eat horse meat before they compete. And UFC fighter Lyoto Machida drinks his own urine -- Thesportster.com
And The Ringer explains offensive linemen have to be huge! So Ben Bartch drank smoothies full of bananas, scrambled eggs, peanut butter, grits, cottage cheese, and Gatorade
Watch Bartch recreate his smoothie at the NFL combine
Michael Phelps ate more than a lineman while he was training for the Olympics. Spoonuniversity.com details how he ate 12,000 calories a day
Cam Newton followed a different path and went vegan. InsideHook.com thinks it might’ve messed up his career
But Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton says eating vegan keeps his energy stable, and that gives him an edge on the track -- The Independent
Tennis star Novak Djokovic is vegan too, but Republicworld.com says he doesn’t want you to call him that
Chad Ochocinco takes another approach. Mashed.com says he credits McDonald’s for keeping him free of injury in the NFL
And he’s not the only one to fuel up at the arches -- Time says Usain Bolt ate 100 McNuggets a day while winning 3 gold medals in Beijing
Tom Brady is more of a purist. He follows a diet that’s 80% plant-based and 20% animal-based, and no packaged food is allowed!
Rock climber Alex Honnold thinks protein is overhyped. Men’s Magazine says that he’s a vegetarian, both for his health and for the planet
Serena tells Women’s Health her eating is very “moody” -- she likes to change it up. But if she could, she would just eat moon pies