Competitive Eating Training

Well, I was pretty happy to see that a 61 year old man 14th World Pie Eating Contest.  Fred Wyatt was able to finish his pie in only 56.28 seconds knocking off the competition.

Now what interests me here is that a lot of the issues you’ll have with competitive eating will be mental. You’re going to have these mental barriers that are up and ready to crush you. I don’t think people really understand how statements like “you can’t do it”, “you’re too old”, “it’s impossible” are quite powerful. When you have these barriers you just don’t beat them. You don’t understand the profound effect over yourself until someone smashes through the barrier.

I think the most famous example was the 100 meter dash. Experts were saying that a runner getting under 10 seconds was just physically impossible. People believed this and therefore no one would ever get under the 10 second mark. Years went by with this barrier in the way. Than one year a guy broke. Guess how many other people broke the 10 second barrier within a year – well over 50 athletes.

Mental barriers are powerful and I hope this article shows you that it doesn’t matter how old you are, what shape your in, or whatever. Once you’re ready to eat, you can win.