The ‘Rock Diet’
ESPN FiveThirtyEight‘s Walt Hickey recently published an article featuring a man named Mark Webster, who found The Rock’s “Hercules diet” online and decided to try it himself.
Webster, considered an “everyman” who is self-employed, logged his daily meals and routines, and provided Hickey with data about his experiences. You can read a few excerpts below:
Based on the data Webster sent me — scrupulously compiled over the course of this exercise — he spent a total of $1,262 on food. That’s about $42 per day, including $18 worth of cod.
So it costs a lot of money to eat like The Rock, but it also takes time. Every two or three days, Webster said, he spent an hour and a half on food prep. He got a break partway through the challenge when he realized the seafood store would just steam-cook the cod on the spot for no charge. Still, making 30 pounds of food every three days is probably the worst part of the process, he said. For a while his only succor was a daily sweet potato.
Eating each of his seven daily meals takes about 20 minutes — two hours and 20 minutes a day just shoving meat and vegetables into his mouth. “The biggest thing with the eating is the interruption of your day,” Webster said. “Every few hours, you have to stop and eat again.”
The Rock diet hasn’t affected Webster’s work life, besides the occasional need to sneak out for his protein fix. “I had business meetings at a different office last week,” he told me, “and I had to bring three meals with me, and eat in a conference room while I was having a meeting with other people.”
You can read Hickey’s complete article here, as well as view Webster’s results and more on his website “Rock’ing for 30 Days‘.
WWE Smackdown
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