Competitive Eating Training

A lot of people don’t know what to eat before an eating competition, so I thought it was important for me to address this with you. So what do you do when you get up in the morning and you know you’re going to be having a competition later in the day.

Well, in the morning your stomach is empty. You might feel the need to not eat because an empty stomach is a good thing – WRONG. You need glycogen reserves in your body for digesting and you don’t want to lose all your energy while you’re trying to chew down all that food.

You should start off with a meal high in carbs and low in everything else – especially fat. This way it is fast digesting, but you also get your glycogen reserves beefed up before you go to the competition.

Also right before the competition it might seem bad to eat something. Well having a little fast digesting carbs can really help. Something like a sports drink can be really beneficial to this process.

I hope this information helps you know how much you should be eating before a competition.

I just saw a man from Pennsylvania that ate a 15lb burger in only 4hrs 39 minutes. Brad Sciullo the only man to ever finish this massive burger. It is actually over 20lbs when you include the buns and other toppings on it.

This wasn’t exactly a competitive eating contest, but it does demonstrate that ordinary people that push themselves could be entering this great sport with some ease. That’s what it’s all about. You could start tomorrow and be the champ. Brad Sciullo maybe looking to get into the profession of competitive eating.

When asked what possessed him to eat a burger that big, Sciullo said: “I wanted to see if I could.”

For completing the challenge in the under-five-hour time limit, Sciullo won $400, three T-shirts, a certificate “and a burger hangover, as I call it,” Liegey said.

Patrick Bertoletti defeated former champ Joey Chestnut in a chicken wing contest. He was able to eat over 4lbs of chicken wings in 8 minutes flat. Think about that – Chicken wings don’t have a lot of meat on them, so that’s one pile of wings to eat.

This is what I like so much about competitive eating, anyone can win. The champions today are going to be beat by newbies next year. It just shows you that ANYONE can get into this sport and be dominant. It’s not like you have to build yourself up, you just get into it and beat the reigning champ.

I wish I could write a longer post, but I’m craving some chicken wings now, so I’m going to go get some.

It’s important to note that we are at the dawn of a new thing. Right now this is still extremely small. A few years ago this was nothing more than a side show at the carnival. Where will it be in a few years now? We can only guess.

The first competition on television was in 2002 on Fox. As well, the Discovery Channel did a documentary on some of the competitors and their eating. This was the first glimpse that people really saw of this.

Over the last few years there has been much more media attention. Both with Spike and ESPN – big networks with big audiences. From this point competitive eating will be reaching more and more households.

Another area for this competition to grow is in other countries. Right now the United States and Japan are the only countries that seem to be giving this attention, but this will soon change. Europe will eventually open up and this sport will grow to a monster size by then.

If you’re thinking about getting into this – now is the time. Growth will only make it harder for people to make their name in this sport. The good news is that growth will bring bigger prices and more money to the competitors.