Surprising Diets of Hockey stars

[Chadstudsky]

Impossible for a pro hockey player to be on a no carb diet

Once you've gone through the few weeks of transitioning your body, your body can, according to some, run better on fat and ketones

 

[Gerulaitis]

Impossible for a pro hockey player to be on a no carb diet

Well, this is nothing... I knew a guy who was convinced he has no heart (as in the organ inside his chest) - and he wasn't joking.

 

[sr edler]

I forget if I learned this directly from him at a coaching clinic or from someone that he worked with...but he would sit there and eat a whole pizza, sometimes two, when reviewing the previous game's tape in Kamloops.

Problem isn't necessarily eating pizza, lots of people like and eat pizza (including myself) fairly regularly while remaining lean and healthy. Problem is eating pizza and then on top of said pizza eating a whole lot of other things. Though, caveat is that some pizzas are healthier than other pizzas, and some pizzas are also bigger than others (to quote Morrissey). But yeah, I know the Hitchcock type of pizza lover very well, we had a family friend just like that.

 

[archangel2]

Speaking of the WHL, Pavel Brendl ate himself out of the league.

I met Andrew Ference once, he gave me the impression that he doesn't eat anything that used to have a shadow haha - I forget what his deal was but I remember it being interesting. He's a particular fella...

Ference was posted on twitter where was asking the best steak house in the UK and Paris

 

[Michael Farkas]

Ference was posted on twitter where was the best steak house in the UK and Paris

Hmph, then either I am mistaken and/or he changed it up. Good call.

 

[Yozhik v tumane]

Hmph, then either I am mistaken and/or he changed it up. Good call.

He’s a known environmentalist so him having been vegan wouldn’t have surprised me. Perhaps you mistook him talking climate for being about not eating meat? I’ve heard meat eaters say something akin to soybean production having a worse environmental impact than meat production, which might be true, but 98% of the soy produced is used as livestock feed.

Now you might think I’m vegan for pointing this out, but I’ll eat virtually anything thank you very much.

 

[Staniowski]

There are many vegans now, and there's been exponential (but still small in numbers) growth of carnivores (people who eat animal products only), so athletes with an alternative diet will likely become more common.

 

[Staniowski]

I've heard MacKinnon talk about his diet....very small amounts of carbs; meat and fish; lots of the high-protein veggies, e.g. broccoli, asparagus, spinach, etc.

 

[MadLuke]

Impossible for a pro hockey player to be on a no carb diet

chickpea is a good and rich sources of carbs (~3x time the protein), he is not on a strict no carbs diet. Low carb maybe... but that would be strange for an athlete indeed.

Just saw that he eat sweet potato, an other excellent very rich in carbs item, they are pretty much pure carbs and water.

 

[njdevils1982]

 

[Garbageyuk]

I forget if I learned this directly from him at a coaching clinic or from someone that he worked with...but he would sit there and eat a whole pizza, sometimes two, when reviewing the previous game's tape in Kamloops.

He weighed 476 lbs at one point.

 

[authentic]

Once you've gone through the few weeks of transitioning your body, your body can, according to some, run better on fat and ketones

I somehow doubt this, but really I have no actual experience with that type of diet. Still chickpea pasta is low carb, not zero carb so I wonder how many carbs he actually consumes compared to most athletes.

 

[Soundwave]

Gretzky would have hot dogs and Snickers bars and Diet Coke's, but as he said in the 80s there weren't really a host of choices for health food. Still he was a string bean with barely any body fat.

You want to be shocked, take a look at Michael Phelps' (the Olympic champion swimmer's) diet.

A giant omelette, fruit bowl, oatmeal, pancakes, ham and that's just for breakfast (10,000 calories per day!). Guy could have eaten a McDonalds combo meal for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and a 4th time just as a snack and it still wouldn't have met his calorie targets, lol.

Hockey really gasses you even in the beer league I played in I would go straight to where ever I felt like eating afterwards (Burger King, McDonalds, pizza, etc) as most of the games were late evenings.

 

[authentic]

Lemieux and Ovechkin are the poster boys for this topic.

Polar opposites in health too

 

[Staniowski]

Polar opposites in health too

Lemieux looks great now, though. Maybe he started taking care of himself.

 

[authentic]

Lemieux looks great now, though. Maybe he started taking care of himself.

I would imagine so after the cancer. I wonder if anyone has heard anything about McDavid’s diet?

 

[Chadstudsky]

I somehow doubt this, but really I have no actual experience with that type of diet. Still chickpea pasta is low carb, not zero carb so I wonder how many carbs he actually consumes compared to most athletes.

I've done keto and carnivore before, and once your body has adapted, my energy levels were through the roof. I'm not a high level athlete though so who knows what peak performance is like

 

[Mr Nogatco]

I believe the quote is him being asked what his off season training regimen was and he said: "Not ordering the fries with my sandwich."

Must have been tough in da burgh where even a salad comes with fries on it

 

[Acallabeth]

Bedard's mom famously revealed Connor's very strict diet before his draft:

"He's never had fast food ... he will at some point, but he hasn't eaten at McDonald's or anything yet," Melanie said. "I think we all know when we eat well, how you feel, and then when we kind of go off the rails. I think he's just aware of that feeling. On game days, he'll eat chicken, rice, vegetable, shrimp, mashed yams, chicken, salmon. It's kind of a rotation.
"A lot of times he'll text me and I'll laugh because I'll get these texts while he's at school that ask, 'How about chicken tonight? How about quesadillas?'
"Sure, let me just whip that up," she said with a hearty laugh.

Just a reminder that a diet and disciplined workouts don't automatically make a player physically outstanding.

Ovechkin eats his infamous chicken parm around 7 hours before the game and then only soda until like 11 pm.

 

[Yozhik v tumane]

There are many vegans now, and there's been exponential (but still small in numbers) growth of carnivores (people who eat animal products only), so athletes with an alternative diet will likely become more common.

I seem to recall the article where I first learned of Chara’s vegan diet were one talking about a trend among pro athletes at the time. Chara stuck out of course as sort of the 7 foot, hard nosed antithesis of a vegan athlete, and he was interesting as someone who apparently really didn’t eat much meat even in the off-season, but Lionel Messi I think was another one who’d switched to a vegan diet during seasons.

 

[authentic]

Bedard's mom famously revealed Connor's very strict diet before his draft:

Just a reminder that a diet and disciplined workouts don't automatically make a player physically outstanding.

Ovechkin eats his infamous chicken parm around 7 hours before the game and then only soda until like 11 pm.

As far as I can see McDonalds, subs and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are the recipe for success. Maybe that’s why I’m such a good hockey player?

 

[sr edler]

Not everyone who says they're a vegan is actually a real life vegan. People say a lot of things. Chara also said he spoke 7 languages including Swedish, but then when someone tried to interview him in Swedish he wouldn't do it (for some non-mysterious reason). It's like saying young Yakupov or Malkin could speak English.