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If you swim as much as Ryan Lochte, this is how much food you get to eat

Olympic swimming gold-medalist Ryan Lochte posted his 10,000 calorie daily food intake on Twitter

Swimming is hard work, and becoming world-class like Ryan Lochte requires a lot of swimming.

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The upshot of all that hard work is getting to eat a tremendous amount of food, which Lochte flaunted on his Twitter account today in photo that contained about a dozen grilled chicken breasts, a massive tray of macaroni and cheese and all the world's asparagus.

You can also eat that much if you spend all day typing at a desk instead of swimming, but you probably won't feel like posting shirtless pictures to Twitter afterwards.

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-Brendan Maloy