Alex Ovechkin’s diet has always amazed teammates, including Brooks Orpik who once famously called it “borderline inspiring.”
Now another one of his secrets appears to have been revealed and I’m personally in awe.
While boarding the Capitals plane to head to Toronto, Ovechkin was snapped with a sandwich from Subway — likely a footlong spicy Italian that he typically purchases at a Dulles gas station.
He was also pictured holding a bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.
Liftoff to the Leafs 🛫 pic.twitter.com/OwUQqL0aQI
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) March 27, 2024
The zoom is absolutely needed here.
"still going strong at 38 years old, how does he do it?" https://t.co/Mdq1XLlhZi pic.twitter.com/97eyPMP4hs
— former wild card spot haver (@OVECHKlN) March 27, 2024
As we’ve documented previously, Ovechkin’s love for the Spicy Italian footlong is a digestive undertaking.
The Spicy Italian sub includes spicy pepperoni, salami, and cheese. You can also toss on peppers, oil, vinegar, or, quoting Subway “anything else your taste buds desire.”
If the footlong includes “double cheese and extra mayo” as Ovechkin said as he walked away from the podium, the star athlete would be consuming around 1,200 calories per sub and an astonishing 3,120 mg of sodium, which is nearly double the sodium a normal human should have in an entire day.
The Cheetos, if they were for him, add another dietary punch — an additional 160 calories — if it’s the 1 oz. bag. Though they are “made with real cheese” and have a single gram of protein, so at least there’s that.
Throughout the years, we’ve learned that Ovechkin’s diet also includes soda on the bench during games and chicken parm before home games.
In 2019, Ovechkin’s wife Nastya even filmed him eating an entire plate of spaghetti at 9 AM before taking on the Rangers later that night.
None of this really makes sense for a high-level professional athlete, but this is the NHL’s First Star of the Week and the greatest goal-scorer of all time being in his element. He’s doing things his own way and you can’t say it’s not incredible.
