Micheal Phelps Will Retire After Historic Gold Haul

Micheal Phelps Will Retire After Historic Gold Haul

Michael Phelps’ goals for retirement include improving his golf game and traveling the world, but he added one last thing to this. Michael Phelps does not want to gain weight and be fat.

On Sunday, Phelps said that he will not let himself to be getting out of shape like what happened during 2009. In that year, he gained 25 pounds in a span of six months.

It may sound funny that a world-class swimmer with a minimal amount of fat in body and a washboard abdomen worries about gaining weight, but Michael Phelps really did look like any man than an athlete in 2009.

After acquiring eight gold medals in Olympics in Beijing, Phelps stopped his training and took a break from his diet. It was reported that Phelps had a 12,000-calories-per-day diet.

He used his loss of muscle tone to be inspired in doing his training for the next Olympics at that time.

"I started going through the motions again. I would go back for a week or two and then stop. I'd show up for dry-land practice and then just sneak out the back door so nobody saw me. I was watching 'Rocky II' the other day – the one where he's fighting Apollo for the second time and he's just going through the motions. It reminded me of how I was." Phelps told Details Magazine.

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