Michael Phelps - 2008 Olympics Beijing A Complete Guide

Have you been following the "Phelps Gossip?"

Latest rumor has him paired off with Amanda Beard. Well since she is one hottie, If I was Michael Phelps I wouldn't mind.


I guess Phelps activities outside the pool will be kept under wraps for a while. So who do you think is Michael Phelps Girlfriend?

Michael Phelps 2008 Olympics - Move Over Mark Spitz You Are Toast!

Michael Phelps has done it!

He has smashed Mark Spitz's record of 7 gold medals in the Olympia. In a very heated event he barely beat Milorad Cavic by a fingernail. Just a mere .01 of second in the 100m butterfly on Saturday at the Beijing Olympics Water Cube.

Cavic's team coach filed a protest after the race, according to NBC reporter Andrea Kremer, but FINA, swimming's world governing body, refused to accept it.

Phelps, was trailing the race-he was second to last (7th out of 8 swimmers) at the first wall but made up for with a fast as lighting turn at the wall. His size 14 feet acting as flippers. Even with his fast turn he was still behind Cavic.

Then in the final meters he shot out and got to the wall first in 50.58 to Cavic's 50.59. Just .01 seconds faster but enough to win his 7th gold medal.

Mark Spitz, as you know held the record after having won 7 golds at the Munich Games.

Phelps final event is the tell all. He will try to beat that record in the 4x100m medley relay Sunday in the final day of swimming in Beijing.

Cavis, who is a California-trained swimmer and who competes for Serbia, beat Phelps in the swim heats as the second-fastest man to swim the event. He almost ruined Phelps chance at making Olympic and swimming history.

Phelps was quoted as saying "Cavic's words before the race fueled me."

Phelps continued on saying "Cavic said it would be good for me and good for swimming if he won" Further he Phelps said "I'm at a loss for words. I had no idea the race was that close. I was lucky enough to get my hands on the wall first."

Michael Phelps has set world records in every event except one. Crocker's record, 50.40 set in 2005, is the only world record Phelps has not smashed in Beijing.

Phelps stated later that tying Mark Spitz's record has been a long term goal of his. Well it seems that this young man has seen this goal/dream come true today.

"In my dreams I always wanted it," he stated. "I thought in the perfect circumstances I could do it."

Spitz marveled at the way Phelps has dealt with all the media attention and pre-Beijing hype since Phelps won six golds in Athens.

"I've always marveled at the fact that in the last four years, he has had to live with a lot more expectations and anxiety that I had to deal with," Spitz stated.

It is safe to say that whatever happens - Michael Phelps has earned his place in Olympic history!

Here are some interesting statistics and facts about Michael Phelps

If you were to count Michael Phelps worth in gold he is valued at about Three million. In fact the 2008 Olympics are in all probability worth ten times that amount of money per year. That information is one reason why the current crop of Olympic athletes begin their quest for Olympic gold at an early age.

Here are some more interesting Michael Phelps facts --

Merchandising experts stated that Phelps who's now the most victorious Olympian with 12 Olympic gold medals, will turn out to be the wealthiest pro swimmer ever, far above the income attained by Mark Spitz.

Some are speculating that Phelps can easily rake in a billion dollars. With that kind of money it's safe to say that he may not need to apply for a real job. He can easily live on that kind of money for the next fifty years.

The Olympic Games have become a huge business since the Olympics granted professional athletes the ability to compete twenty yrs past.

Simply no one has made the kind of money earned by athletic megastars comparable to Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan David Beckham or whose names are globally recognized and have cash registers banging out money everywhere.

Eli Portnoy, chief brand strategist at the Portnoy Group, doubted Phelps -- or any Olympian -- would match the earning ability of Woods who is calculated to become the 1st billionaire jock by 2010.

More Michael Phelps facts are -- Currently, Phelps reportedly brings in almost $five million a yr from endorsements altho his agency refused to remark. Portnoy estimates this ascending to approximately thirty million, in the short-run.

Phelps Fact - A Millionaire Already

Phelps is already the prototype of the modern-day American corporate Olympian with the Phelps Machine in full action before he exceeded the record 9 gold tally obtained by Spitz and Carl Lewis, Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi and Soviet gymnast Larysa Latynina.

Phelps, who became a pro swimmer at sixteen and a millionaire by eighteen, has sponsors, agents, lawyers, accountants, charities, his own website in English and Chinese, and even his own logo with a wave-like blue M and red P over his name.

Inside seconds of Phelps's grabbing his tenth gold medal, Visa issued a special version TV commercial commemorating his title as the most decorated Olympian.

"You need to be out there early and establish your affiliation with the property, Michael Phelps," said Michael Lynch, head of global sponsorship management at Visa whose relationship with Phelps dates back to 2002.

"His performance here will benefit us as it will add to the visibility we will get through this affiliation ... and his earning ability will increase, there's no question of that."

One thing is for sure Phelps will also hold the record for cashing in on his Olympic fame, as well he should and those are what I believe to be the most important Michael Phelps facts !

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Michael Phelps, in his recent book... "No Limits" gave us an insight into his training program.

One of the ways that he was able to increase his speed, strength, and endurance was by the use of "resistance training." This is not uncommon for most Olympic athletes. Besides spending hours in the pool swimming, Michael spends an additional one hour per day performing strength training exercises.

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Michael Phelps swimmer has been declared the Gold Medal champion of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

There are just no words to describe Michael Phelps performance at the Water Cube in Beijing recently.

He set a world record of 1:42.96 in the 200m freestyle. That's an amazing second faster than Ian Thorpe's peak performance.

This gave Phelps his 3rd gold medal in Beijing and became his 9th overall. He also had won 6 gold medals at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

Phelps is not the type of guy to sit around enjoying his hard won medal, no sir; he was immediately off to his next race: the semi-final of the 200m butterfly.

But wait there's more:

The 4th Gold Medal came in the 200m butterfly, his best event yet it was the most difficult race for him to-date.

The 200m butterfly is Phelps strongest event, but this was not his most decisive win or performance.

Michael Phelps has now cemented his position in the annals of Olympic and sports history with his 4th Gold Medal. He also set his 4th world record of 1 min 52:03sec - six hundredths just inside the record he set when smashing the world title 18 months ago in Melbourne, Australia.

With this, his latest victory he has broken a tie with Mark Spitz, Carl Lewis and two others for most Olympic Gold Medals.

This brings his total medal count to 11.

Phelps still has 3 events left and is on pace smash Mark Spitz's record of 7 gold medals in 1 Olympiad. Just after winning his heat in the 200m individual medley, Phelps stated that he is not unbeatable. "It's not over yet. Anything can happen in the next three events," He voiced. "This is something we have been preparing for for the last 4 years. All the work is starting to pay off. But I am not unbeatable. Everyone can be beaten."

His current gold medal rankings: 4-for-4 and setting world records in each of the events. Certainly this 23 year old man has earned the distinction of being a true Olympic Champion!

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If you are interested in swimming or just having a muscular body then you should understand the importance of training correctly. For swimming these are the muscles used per swimming event:

* freestyle- deltoids, legs
* breast stroke- thighs, biceps, butt
* butterfly- abs, deltoids, legs
* backstroke- triceps, legs

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Michael Phelps, born on June 30, 1985 to Fred and Debbie Phelps. He has two sisters, Hilary and Whitney. The family lived in Maryland, just outside of Baltimore.

Fred Phelps, his father was a state trooper, and Debbie was a middle-school teacher who was twice named Maryland's "Teacher of the Year."

Michael Phelps holds several world records in many different swimming events.

Phelps has won thirteen medals overall, eight (six gold, two bronze) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and five (all gold) at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, which broke the record for the most medals obtained in a single Olympics, a record previously set by Alexander Dityatin in 1980.ESPN (2008).

Phelps sets world mark, becomes most decorated Olympic athlete. Retrieved August 13, 2008. Phelps' international titles, along with his various world records, have resulted in him being named World Swimmer of the Year in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 and American Swimmer of the Year in those years and in 2001 and 2002.

Phelps has qualified to compete in eight swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and is attempting to beat Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals at one Olympics. As of August 13, 2008, Phelps has won five gold medals in Beijing, all in world record time, giving him 11 career Olympic golds, more than any athlete in history.

After grabbing his record breaking 11th Olympic Gold Medal US swimmer Michael Phelps, at the 2008 Beijing, China Olympics just recently revealed the secret to his incredible body and Gold Medal results.

The secret he would have you know behind his physique is an astonishing 12,000-calorie per day diet.

This is 6 times the normal amount of an average adult male, but for Michael Phelps this is just a typical day. Of course his diet does go along with a muscle building 6 day per week, 5 hours per day intense training program both in and out of the water.

Here is a regular day in the life of Michael Phelps:

Breakfast

Phelps begins his day and supercharges his metabolism with 3 fried-egg sandwiches, but with a few customized embellishments: cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and, a large dollop of mayonnaise.

As soon as he is done with that light snack he inhales 2 cups of coffee and silently begins working on an omelet which consist of 5 eggs - and grits, a porridge of coarsely ground corn.

Well he's just getting started. Let's bring the 3 slices of sumptuous French toast, with powdered sugar on top to make sure there's no skimping on the calories. And finally lets not forget the 3 chocolate chip pancakes.

With breakfast out of the way, let us take a look at lunch; after all he is a growing boy.

Lunch

I can feel the hunger pangs kicking in already-- right?

Well Michael Phelps starts lunch with a ½ a kilogram - ie a whole packet - of enriched pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches. On white bread with loads of mayo to boot.

To guarantee that he will have plenty of energy for his grueling workout he quickly downs a 1,000 calorie energy drink.

A Quality Dinner Time Meal

For most people so far the idea of more food maybe as welcome as a frontal lobotomy, but it is time to kick the carbs up for tomorrows workout.

Get set for ½ a kilo of enriched pasta and to make sure nothing is left out let's eat entire pizza and a 1,000 calorie energy drink. Phelps was recently quoted: "Eat, sleep and swim, that's all I can do."

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Since 2004 till this year (2008) Michael Phelps attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

He majored in sports marketing and management.

In May 2008, Phelps said he intends to return to Baltimore following the 2008 Olympics, joining Bob Bowman there when he leaves the University of Michigan, saying, "I'm not going to swim for anybody else. I think we can both help the North Baltimore Athletic Club go further. I'm definitely going to be in Baltimore next year." The club has announced that Bowman is leaving the University of Michigan to become the club's CEO.

Michael Phelps Workouts and Training

Ever wonder how Michael Phelps trained out of the water to build the muscle strength necessary to propel him into Olympic stardom?

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Well here are some of the exercises he uses:

1. Wall sit 3 min


2. 5 x 4 corner lunges


3. 3 x 8 assisted pull-ups (last set 5 sec. negatives)


4. 3 x swiss ball bridge + 5 pushups


5. 4 x 10 push-ups (form!)


6. 3 X 30 v-sits


7. 3 x 30 standing squats


8. 3 x 10 leg extensions with ball


9. 4 x :40 flutter kicks (20 sec. rest)


10. 3 x 15 squat thrusts

Alternating with:

1. 3 x 10 puff-ups


2. 4 x 10 pushups


3. 2 x 30 swiss ball squats


4. 10 x 4 corner lunges


5. 6 x 6 squat jumps on :20


6. 100 partner sit-ups


7. 50 med ball situps

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Well it's true with that smile and now all those medals I don't think it will be hard for Phelps to get a girlfriend or two.

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Michael Phelps swimmer has been declared the Gold Medal champion of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

There are just no words to describe Michael Phelps performance at the Water Cube in Beijing recently.

He set a world record of 1:42.96 in the 200m freestyle. That's an amazing second faster than Ian Thorpe's peak performance.

This gave Phelps his 3rd gold medal in Beijing and became his 9th overall. He also had won 6 gold medals at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

Phelps is not the type of guy to sit around enjoying his hard won medal, no sir; he was immediately off to his next race: the semi-final of the 200m butterfly.

But wait there's more:

The 4th Gold Medal came in the 200m butterfly, his best event yet it was the most difficult race for him to-date.

The 200m butterfly is Phelps strongest event, but this was not his most decisive win or performance.

Michael Phelps has now cemented his position in the annals of Olympic and sports history with his 4th Gold Medal. He also set his 4th world record of 1 min 52:03sec - six hundredths just inside the record he set when smashing the world title 18 months ago in Melbourne, Australia.

With this, his latest victory he has broken a tie with Mark Spitz, Carl Lewis and two others for most Olympic Gold Medals.

This brings Michael Phelps total medal count to 11.

Phelps still has 3 events left and is on pace smash Mark Spitz's record of 7 gold medals in 1 Olympiad. Just after winning his heat in the 200m individual medley, Phelps stated that he is not unbeatable. "It's not over yet. Anything can happen in the next three events," He voiced. "This is something we have been preparing for for the last 4 years. All the work is starting to pay off. But I am not unbeatable. Everyone can be beaten."

His current gold medal rankings: 4-for-4 and setting world records in each of the events. Certainly this 23 year old man has earned the distinction of being a true Olympic Champion!

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