The concept that competitive eaters are professionalathletes is as well accepted as the concept that hot petdogs are healthy food.
Take Eric “Badlands” Booker, one of the most popular figures in the history of the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. He is 6-5 and weighs 420 pounds.
“I have a long method to go to be like an professionalathlete like a LeBron James in basketball or a Tom Brady in football” stated Booker,53 “But I understand what I have to do to stay strong, to stay competitive in competitive consuming.”
Booker is a throwback to the bygone days, when huge guys bellied up to Nathan’s long table on Coney Island in New York and the hot pet consuming started. This year the rivals will consistof a previous college basketball gamer, a previous college soccer gamer, a previous competitive bodybuilder, a expert wrestler and a host of rivals who appearance more fit than fat.
Joey Chestnut, the 14-time champ at Nathan’s, is understood for his signature jaw and throat workouts. He likewise runs rather than relying exclusively on his inherent capability to consume enormous quantities of food.
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“When I began calling myself an professionalathlete, I began to be able to push moredifficult,” stated Chestnut, who last year set a brand-new record when he consumed 76 hot canines and buns throughout the 10-minute competitors. “If I call something a pastime, subconsciously you’re going to be able to put just so much energy into it. You have to go all-in. I had to go all-in and push it to the limitation.”
The advancement from fat to fit started with the arrival of Takeru Kobayashi, who in 2001 astonished observers when he made his launching at Nathan’s. He was 5-8, weighed 128 pounds and damaged the competitors while consuming 50 hot pets.
Only lateron would the competitive consuming world discover his tricks — drinking extreme quantities of water to stretch his stomach to hold big amounts of food; workouts to enhance his tongue; weightlifting; and nutrition.
“He was constantly utilizing his body as a screening tool and he would test things all the time on himself,” stated Kobayashi’s betterhalf, Magg