How did Michael Phelps win in the 2008 beijing olympics?”
…called “Answering Bonus Questions for the Gold!” You can expect to see his face on our leader board any day now. Nah! I’m just kidding. He actually got to his position as a Gold Medal winner the old fashioned way. It’s the same way that OUR gold leaders used to be established back in Askville, before bonus questions, aka Askville BBQ. Or are you asking “How MANY did he win?” As of this morning (Aug 16), seven gold. He has broken world records on six of those seven medals. But if you ARE asking “How” he won, the answer is Michael Phelps trains 365 days a year, with two practices on 40 percent of those days. More notably Phelps has never lifted weights, nor has he ever run to supplement his training. That is nothing short of incredible for an athlete as young as he is. He has also never taken a VO2 Max test, which gauges the maximum amount of oxygen the lungs can burn. I imagine that if he did, he’d win a Gold in that, too! It has been said of him: “Phelps can manipulate water like no
