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Many athletes stick to a strict regimen, they claim it helps them perform at a high level or are athletes like Brady just generically blessed?
Maple Leafs take notice of Tom Brady’s interesting diet: Feschuk
SAN JOSE—When Tom Brady’s personal chef revealed details of the five-time Super Bowl champion’s dietary habits to Boston.com this week, the information was a curiosity to be mocked by some.
Regular folks made fun of the short list of things Brady eats — 80 per cent vegetables and 20 per cent lean meats — and the long list of things he avoids.
No white flour. No white sugar. Heck, not even white salt (he demands Himalayan pink). And the list went on. No coffee. No fungus. Hardly any tomatoes. No dairy. So, presumably, no salsa and sour cream when pal Donald Trump comes over for taco night.
Certainly it was easy to mock the multi-millionaire athlete and his supermodel wife, Gisele Bundchen, for employing a chef who described a favourite on the Brady family menu as wilted beet greens over quinoa with garlic toasted in coconut oil.
“That’s just comfort food for them,” said the chef, Allen Campbell. Or, as one of Brady’s 330-pound lineman might call it: Garnish.
Still, for a more fastidious, less corpulent sort of professional athlete, the article wasn’t an object to be spoofed — it amounted to vital intelligence. James van Riemsdyk, the Maple Leafs’ leading scorer, was among those who devoured it with interest.
“It’s no secret why (Brady has) been playing so long at the level he’s at,” van Riemsdyk said.
Sports, as Leafs defenceman Morgan Rielly explained, is a copycat business: “When the best guys are doing something, everybody wants to do it.”
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“It’s easy to pack on a few pounds really quickly on the road,” said Kadri.
Said Rielly, 21: “I might not be able to eat pizza when I’m a bit older, I don’t know. But it’s not like you make the NHL and you can’t have a carb anymore because there are certain people who don’t eat carbs. You’ve got to do what works for you.”
Brady-esque extremism has caught on with some hockey players. Rielly cited David Booth, who played in Toronto last season, as a recent teammate whose diet most closely resembles Brady’s. Rielly recalled being invited over to the Booth residence for an afternoon of football on TV last season.
“Me and JVR went over. I said, ‘Should we eat before we go?’ JVR goes: ‘No, he’s going to cook for us,’ ” Rielly said. “So we got there and I hardly ate anything. Because everything was, like, organically dried crazy stuff. I can’t even tell you what it was. Like, eggplant dried in a dehumidifier or something.”
Rielly said he and his fellow dinner guest had a solution for their teammate’s plant-based hospitality: “Me and JVR went to Hero Burger — after dinner.”
http://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs...e-of-tom-bradys-interesting-diet-feschuk.html
Maple Leafs take notice of Tom Brady’s interesting diet: Feschuk
SAN JOSE—When Tom Brady’s personal chef revealed details of the five-time Super Bowl champion’s dietary habits to Boston.com this week, the information was a curiosity to be mocked by some.
Regular folks made fun of the short list of things Brady eats — 80 per cent vegetables and 20 per cent lean meats — and the long list of things he avoids.
No white flour. No white sugar. Heck, not even white salt (he demands Himalayan pink). And the list went on. No coffee. No fungus. Hardly any tomatoes. No dairy. So, presumably, no salsa and sour cream when pal Donald Trump comes over for taco night.
Certainly it was easy to mock the multi-millionaire athlete and his supermodel wife, Gisele Bundchen, for employing a chef who described a favourite on the Brady family menu as wilted beet greens over quinoa with garlic toasted in coconut oil.
“That’s just comfort food for them,” said the chef, Allen Campbell. Or, as one of Brady’s 330-pound lineman might call it: Garnish.
Still, for a more fastidious, less corpulent sort of professional athlete, the article wasn’t an object to be spoofed — it amounted to vital intelligence. James van Riemsdyk, the Maple Leafs’ leading scorer, was among those who devoured it with interest.
“It’s no secret why (Brady has) been playing so long at the level he’s at,” van Riemsdyk said.
Sports, as Leafs defenceman Morgan Rielly explained, is a copycat business: “When the best guys are doing something, everybody wants to do it.”
...... read more at link
“It’s easy to pack on a few pounds really quickly on the road,” said Kadri.
Said Rielly, 21: “I might not be able to eat pizza when I’m a bit older, I don’t know. But it’s not like you make the NHL and you can’t have a carb anymore because there are certain people who don’t eat carbs. You’ve got to do what works for you.”
Brady-esque extremism has caught on with some hockey players. Rielly cited David Booth, who played in Toronto last season, as a recent teammate whose diet most closely resembles Brady’s. Rielly recalled being invited over to the Booth residence for an afternoon of football on TV last season.
“Me and JVR went over. I said, ‘Should we eat before we go?’ JVR goes: ‘No, he’s going to cook for us,’ ” Rielly said. “So we got there and I hardly ate anything. Because everything was, like, organically dried crazy stuff. I can’t even tell you what it was. Like, eggplant dried in a dehumidifier or something.”
Rielly said he and his fellow dinner guest had a solution for their teammate’s plant-based hospitality: “Me and JVR went to Hero Burger — after dinner.”
http://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs...e-of-tom-bradys-interesting-diet-feschuk.html
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