At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that's not the way our food system in America is set up. It's very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.
I always say that I would go poor eating my way through New York because I like to try everything.
When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.
In a city like New York, especially for young professionals who aren't in a family situation, most people don't cook for themselves. This is the only city I've ever lived in where I eat out every night.
Healthier team members get a bigger food discount. We give our sickest team members an option to go through what we call the Total Health Immersion, where we take them off for a week, and we do intensive diet-and-lifestyle education.
There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.
New York is the best food city in the world.
Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.