Of course we can smell what The Rock is cooking. Everyone can smell it. He’s cooking 24/7 to provide the amount of calories needed to maintain that houseboat physique.
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Case in point: The Rock’s cheat day, or for mere mortals, a cheat week. On his day off the big-screen legend likes to tuck into meals so large, so over the top, so gluttonous that they’d make a Roman emperor lean back, undo his belt and say “Claudius est plenus.”
And, cruising along as he does at a cool 5,000 calories a day, made up in large part by cod, who can blame him for regularly going in hard on the junk food?
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In the past he’s shared details of pizzas, burgers and family-sized tubs of ice cream. Lately though, he’s become fond of sushi and cookies. Below, we do the math(s) on what The Rock is cooking.
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A quick disclaimer before we start: clearly, we didn’t sit down and eat dinner with The Rock and input his food into MyFitnessPal. So, obviously, these numbers are in no way exact — but a ‘careful analysis’ of his Instagram post firstly suggests he’s tucking into upwards of 54 pieces of sushi in one sitting.
Roughly, a single piece of salmon nigri clocks in at 61 calories and using that as an average for all 54 pieces, you’re looking at approximately 3294 calories.
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Light work, you might say, for the Scorpion King. This is a cheat day and those are rookie numbers.
That is until you factor in dessert: The Cookie Train. Arriving into Snacktown Station at 1.30am, The Rock, the absolute mad head, devours 10 “double milk chocolate and peanut butter chip cookies with creamy peanut butter smothered between the two.”
Let’s say those cookies come in at a conservative 400 calories each (using Ben’s Cookies’ double chocolate example as a benchmark) and that a tablespoon of smooth peanut butter between them is 94 calories, that’s a total of 4470 calories across 5 cookie sandwiches.
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Add that to dinner and you have a grand total of 7,764 calories in one sitting. That’s nearly the recommended daily calorie intake of three fully grown men. What on earth must The Rock’s dreams be like?
Fancy trying to burn all that off? Sure, no problem. Just do burpees solidly for 14 hours. Sounds awful? How about running 3 marathons instead? Thought not.
Unless you’re a 6ft4in former bodybuilder turned biggest star in Hollywood, there’s no cheating your way out of that meal.
