Is this guy insane or what? First he wins Poutine with 25.5 pounds (Toronto), and then backs it up the next day with 19.375 pounds of Pumpkin Pie (CA).
You have to feel for Carmen Cincotti, who got second in both (25 + 16.6875).
Is this guy insane or what? First he wins Poutine with 25.5 pounds (Toronto), and then backs it up the next day with 19.375 pounds of Pumpkin Pie (CA).
You have to feel for Carmen Cincotti, who got second in both (25 + 16.6875).
Airplane toilet is full wrote:
Is this guy insane or what? First he wins Poutine with 25.5 pounds (Toronto), and then backs it up the next day with 19.375 pounds of Pumpkin Pie (CA).
You have to feel for Carmen Cincotti, who got second in both (25 + 16.6875).
I imagine these guys spend a lot of time on the toilet.
This is half serious half joking but what kind of PEDs do these guys take? Laxatives?
It's the best surgeon that determines the winner given "Professional Food Contest" athletes have stomach enlargement surgery.
Airplane toilet is full wrote:
Is this guy insane or what? First he wins Poutine with 25.5 pounds (Toronto), and then backs it up the next day with 19.375 pounds of Pumpkin Pie (CA).
You have to feel for Carmen Cincotti, who got second in both (25 + 16.6875).
Stonie hit capacity at around 23 (poutine). So much for the skinny kid.
Secret: They make the gravy really runny, so unlike other eating disciplines you don't have to drink water as lubrication (extra weight that doesn't count).
That's about what I ate. Is this supposed to be impressive?
But he gained 3 hours by flying west, so he had 25.5 hours (> one day) between official starts.
Do competitive eaters throw up after a big competition like this?
I have eaten up to 18 lbs of pumpkin pie. I have a high metabolism. So, within a day, I'm back to normal agin.
bigtool05 wrote:
Do competitive eaters throw up after a big competition like this?
No. You get disqualified if you do
Canadian marginal gains wrote:
Airplane toilet is full wrote:Is this guy insane or what? First he wins Poutine with 25.5 pounds (Toronto), and then backs it up the next day with 19.375 pounds of Pumpkin Pie (CA).
You have to feel for Carmen Cincotti, who got second in both (25 + 16.6875).
Stonie hit capacity at around 23 (poutine). So much for the skinny kid.
Secret: They make the gravy really runny, so unlike other eating disciplines you don't have to drink water as lubrication (extra weight that doesn't count).
Stonie still holds the Pumpkin Pie record (20.8125 pounds in 8 minutes). But he only ate 14.75 pounds of thicker poutine that 2014 weekend (he won both over Chestnut on 19.625 and 11.75).
eat more food (all) wrote:
Stonie still holds the Pumpkin Pie record (20.8125 pounds in 8 minutes)..
Good point. Stonie had a rate of 2.60 pounds/min (pumpkin pie), and Chestnut only 2.55 pounds/min (poutine).
Is there a way to compute the VDOT for 8 minutes versus 10 minutes?
Airplane toilet is full wrote:
Is this guy insane or what? First he wins Poutine with 25.5 pounds (Toronto), and then backs it up the next day with 19.375 pounds of Pumpkin Pie (CA).
You have to feel for Carmen Cincotti, who got second in both (25 + 16.6875).
Why is the poutine measured in pounds (instead of kgs) when it is held in Canada, eh?
It's the best surgeon wrote:
It's the best surgeon that determines the winner given "Professional Food Contest" athletes have stomach enlargement surgery.
There is no such thing as "stomach enlargement surgery". Hope you're joking.
Greater curve wrote:
It's the best surgeon wrote:It's the best surgeon that determines the winner given "Professional Food Contest" athletes have stomach enlargement surgery.
There is no such thing as "stomach enlargement surgery". Hope you're joking.
There is!
I thought they trained by drinking gallons of water a day to make the stomach more flexible and expansible.
Yasir Salem said it was harder than training for triathlons.
not my kind of taper wrote:
I thought they trained by drinking gallons of water a day to make the stomach more flexible and expansible.
Yasir Salem said it was harder than training for triathlons.
Describe your typical training day.
In the same way that I would at the Iron Man nine months out, I would look at the contest four weeks out. This is quite dangerous, so I wouldn't recommend it, but I will drink a gallon of water in the morning quickly -- under a minute or so -- to [prepare] my stomach and my overall mental state.
M&F: What was your diet like prior to competitive eating?
YS: I started off with competitive eating and then I dabbled in running. I got really serious about running. Then I progressed, back in 2012, into triathlons. I did an Ironman in 2013 and then two Ironman's in 2014. I only dabbled in fitness. I had fat phases and fit phases. I just never quite figured it out. I'm not good at ball sports. What I'm good at is riding a bike really fast.
M&F: Can you talk preparation for an Ironman versus what you would normally do for one of your competitive eating events?
YS: I use Google calendar to not overlap everything. It's very hard to prepare for an Ironman when it's close, within a couple of weeks of an eating contest. In the long-term, if I have an eating contest in mid-July or early July, and then a Hooter's contest in August, that's enough spacing in between.
What I do for Nathan's, it's the same idea of increasing capacity and ability over time. It's a conditioning thing. In February, I started drinking progressively more amounts of water, eating bigger amounts of vegetables -- to the point where I'm close to 13 pounds of capacity [WEAK!]. A gallon of water is eight pounds and I ate 5-6 pounds of vegetables. That's about all I can handle; broccoli and cauliflower.
M&F: What parts of your strength training help you perform your best in the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest?
YS: More than anything, the aerobics. When I'm running a race -- I have races in between on the weekends, like with New York Road Runners. In those races, I'll push myself quite hard for 3-4 miles. There's a point where I have a certain feeling of wanting to stop. I harness that feeling. There's nobody that can tell me no and there's no one who can push me. I'm the one who's pushing myself. That feeling of willpower; I remember it very clearly. I remember that during eating contests because I've had multiple sessions of running. It's good mental training. It translates very well over into eating. It's also good mental training for the Ironman. Having a history of knowing you can do something, helps me so much. It's something I can fall back on.
M&F: How do you handle all the sodium after the contest?
YS: I drink about a gallon of water within an hour after the contest. It does two things: helps me digest and seems to help with all the sodium. I'll also drink another 1/2 gallon to a gallon for the rest of the day. If I don't do that, I get the worst cottonmouth. Over the next few days, I'll eat a lot of veggies, fruit, fiber, and more water and my bloat goes away after about three days. Not that much different than recovering from a marathon actually.