The powerlifting world champion has lived on meat shakes for ten years.
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Powerlifting World Champion Blaine Sumner34, freaks out with his diet.
Sumner tells Insider eating 8,000 kilocalories per day. He enjoys all his meals in shake form.
Meat shakes come with cooked chicken breast, sweet potato, spinach, almonds and water. For variety, you can also have beef instead of chicken, and rice instead of sweet potato. Sometimes olive oil is also added to the mixture.
Each shake has about a thousand kilocalories, so Sumner enjoys eight shakes every day. He has been drinking meat shakes for ten years.
– I have always tried to be as big and strong as possible. However, I don’t have a big enough appetite to get enough calories and protein by eating, he explains.
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Sumner knows that to build muscle you have to eat a lot. He doesn’t have time to eat eight times a day on his civil work vacation.
That’s why the idea of a milkshake was born.
– My work as an engineer is busy. Every 90 minutes I would have to fetch food and try to get it down. There’s just no time for that.
– I realized that by mixing everything I can drink my meal in about ten seconds. It doesn’t taste good or feel good, it’s just fuel.
Sumner’s standard milkshake includes chicken that has been seasoned as little as possible. Sometimes he replaces chicken with minced meat, steak or fish, but the fat in them makes the shakes “disgusting”.
– I’ve gotten used to shakes over time, but I have to mentally prepare myself every time I drink one.
A power lifter sometimes has a normal dinner with his wife. It’s a refreshing change.
– Chewing food is cool.
No compliments
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A nutritionist interviewed by Insider Rhiannon Lambert didn’t give the powerlifter’s diet a clean slate.
A liquid diet is not recommended because chewing is an important part of digestion.
– Eating the same products means that the diet lacks important nutrients that are needed to maintain both physical and mental well-being. It is important that the diet is varied.
Sumner is a two-time world champion in the category over 120 kilograms. He celebrated winning the Arnold Classic in 2014.
The American holds several World Cup records.