- Wallabies are on Spring Tour of the United Kingdom
- Have claimed big wins over England and Wales
- Forward in the engine room reveals what fuels him
Have you ever wanted to know how much food is required to fuel an Australian Wallabies forward for a Test match? Carlo Tizzano has revealed his daily diet but be warned, just the sight of it might be enough to make you fast for a week.
The Wallabies forward is currently in the UK as part of Australia’s Spring Tour, which has so far netted encouraging wins against England and Wales.
It has set the Wallabies up for a rare Grand Slam tour of the UK, a remarkable achievement considering recent results include crashing out of the Rugby World Cup for the first time in history.
Tizzano has been a huge part of the team’s engine room and has shared his day on a plate on social media, showing just how much food he consumes even when the Wallabies are not playing.
For us mere mortals aged 19-30 years, women require 2,000-2,400 calories daily, while males need 2,400-3,000 calories.
Between 31-59 years, the daily calorie needs decrease slightly, with females requiring 1800-2200 calories and males 2200-3000 calories.
Carlo Tizzano has been a huge part of the Australian Spring Tour and now the Wallabies star has revealed what he eats in a day
The Wallabies forward consumes almost three times the daily average for men his age
For those aged 60 and older, females need 1600-2000 calories per day, and males require 2000-2600 calories daily.
Tizzano consumes a staggering 8000 calories per day, with his daily diet revealed below:
7am: Breakfast
- Coffee with whole milk
- Baked beans
- White sourdough with butter
- 2x fried eggs
- 4x poached eggs
Total = 1099 calories
The competitive juices get flowing early, with Tizzano revealing that he tries to keep up with the amount of eggs that teammates Len Ikitau and Langi Gleeson eat every day.
‘We keep it competitive. [Ikitau] goes five or six, so I am trying to keep it pretty similar,’ Tizzano said.
Even breakfast is competitive for the Wallabies, with the players boasting about how many eggs they can smash in the morning
8:45am: Pre/intra/post training
- Protein yoghurt with honey
- SIS Beta Fuel energy chew
- SIS energy gel
- Protein shake
Total = 1025 calories
‘Basically, this is just jelly,’ Tizzano said as he tucked into one of his energy treats.
‘The fructose ratio is one to eight, so that is huge.
‘You just rip into one of these before training and it gives you a bit of energy.’
1pm: Lunch
The Italian side of Tizzano comes out when he spots spaghetti on the menu that did not come from his nonna’s kitchen
- Tortellini pasta with spinach
- 4x boiled potatoes
- 4x meat balls
- Lamb chop
- Olive oil for potatoes
- Olive oil for salad
- Mixed salad
- Banana bread
- Protein Yoghurt
Total = 2148 calories
‘Refuel after a big day,’ Tizzano said.
Oddly, though, Tizzano swears off a food that Australians commonly load up on for energy.
‘Spaghetti, nah, it’s not my nonnas. I can’t be touching it, she would kill me,’ he said.
3pm: Snack
Even a highly tuned athlete allows themselves a little treat every now and then, like this Nutella doughnut
- Hot dog with sauce
- Nutella doughnut
Total = 954 calories
‘These are the ones you don’t tell the dietician about,’ he said about the Nutella doughnut treat.
‘We would not be logging this on my macros today.’
6pm: Dinner
- Lamb
- Basmati rice
- Shepherd’s pie
- Chicken
- Olive oil
- Sourdough bread
- Broccoli
Total = 2160 calories
8pm: Snack
- Protein shake
- – raspberries
- – blueberries
- – peanut butter
- – honey
- – SIS creatine
- – SIS whey protein
- – banana
- – full cream milk
Total = 708 calories
‘Good for your brain, this is, got my parents onto it,’ he said about the creatine.
‘Last meal of the day, this will take me to the morning and we will do it all again.’
