Summer Non-Olympic Sports Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 15,333]

  On 7/4/2020 at 5:42 PM, Olympian1010 said:

New World Record!!! Joey Chesnut eats 75 hot dogs + buns. Miki Sudo would have actually placed second in the men’s competition today.

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What exactly is the world record? I mean, eating 75 hot dogs + buns in .... minutes?

[Olympian1010 8,068]

  On 7/4/2020 at 10:29 PM, heywoodu said:

What exactly is the world record? I mean, eating 75 hot dogs + buns in .... minutes?

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10 minutes, sorry.

[heywoodu 15,333]

  On 7/4/2020 at 10:56 PM, Olympian1010 said:

10 minutes, sorry.

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That is quite a pace.

[Olympian1010 8,068]

  On 7/5/2020 at 5:10 AM, heywoodu said:

That is quite a pace.

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Chestnut began around 12 hot dogs per minute, but then slowed to 8 hot dogs per minute by the end.

[Griff88 1,969]

  On 7/4/2020 at 8:08 PM, Olympian1010 said:

There was a sports science episode made a while back on the anatomy, physical demand, and mental strength involved in competitive eating, and it was fascinating.

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Yeah like Gal Sone whose stomach has a bigger connection to the intestines, apparently it is a genetic stuff in her family.

 

[phelps 7,797]

  On 7/4/2020 at 10:28 PM, heywoodu said:

How many damages? It's not like they eat dozens of hotdogs at a time every day  

 

Quite often competitive eaters live like athletes. Which is why people are often surprised to find out they often aren't fat...at all. They get a huge amount of calories once every X weeks, but save some calories in between by dieting and training so that overall, they stay fit.

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do you think you can eat 75 hot dogs in 10 minutes without "training"? 

 

and not only that...because they regularly compete in this kind of contests almost every weekend...it's basically a full time job for the most famous "eaters"...

 

so, yes...they do a lot of damages to themselves...either because they become obese as they actually eat all that sh*t or because they throw it away after every "session"...

 

food disorder is always behind the door for those people...

[heywoodu 15,333]

  On 7/5/2020 at 8:02 AM, phelps said:

do you think you can eat 75 hot dogs in 10 minutes without "training"? 

 

and not only that...because they regularly compete in this kind of contests almost every weekend...it's basically a full time job for the most famous "eaters"...

 

so, yes...they do a lot of damages to themselves...either because they become obese as they actually eat all that sh*t or because they throw it away after every "session"...

 

food disorder is always behind the door for those people...

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And yet they train a ton (physically). There are sports where half the people look more obese than this guy. Let's not act like athletes in athletics, combat sports etc don't damage their bodies a lot every time they compete.

 

 

Of course you need training. In every kind of competition you need training. I know I wouldn't like to have their training regime for eating and definitely also not their physical training regime which they need and do to stay in a normal physical shape.

[Griff88 1,969]

  On 7/4/2020 at 10:28 PM, heywoodu said:

Quite often competitive eaters live like athletes. Which is why people are often surprised to find out they often aren't fat...at all. They get a huge amount of calories once every X weeks, but save some calories in between by dieting and training so that overall, they stay fit.

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Or just poop with a proper pooping technique..

[Olympian1010 8,068]

Damn right. Parkour isn’t gymnastics; it’s it’s own sport.

[Griff88 1,969]

  On 7/17/2020 at 4:34 AM, Olympian1010 said:

Damn right. Parkour isn’t gymnastics; it’s it’s own sport.

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My mother after seeing a parkour tournament on TV just now:  these Westerners really ran out of things to do, didn't they? (interestingly the guy on TV was an Iranian )