If you want to be a champion, you have to eat like a champion. That’s why we made the following video. Greatness starts in the kitchen with the fuel you use for your body, whether you’re a pick-up game all star or a beast like The Rock. For example, here’s Tom Brady’s diet for greatness, as outlined earlier this year:
So, 80 percent of what they eat is vegetables. [I buy] the freshest vegetables. If it’s not organic, I don’t use it. And whole grains: brown rice, quinoa, millet, beans. The other 20 percent is lean meats: grass-fed organic steak, duck every now and then, and chicken. As for fish, I mostly cook wild salmon.
It’s very different than a traditional American diet. But if you just eat sugar and carbs — which a lot of people do — your body is so acidic, and that causes disease. Tom recently outed Frosted Flakes and Coca-Cola on WEEI. I love that he did that. Sugar is the death of people.
The Rock beefs up on an equally-insane high-calorie diet, though he definitely doesn’t recommend it for everyone.