Competitive Eating Training

I thought it was about time that I shared with you the top 5 reasons that you will fail at a competitive eating competition. I like to orient informationlike this because it can really help you understand the fundamentals of successful eating.

1. You Think Liking To Eat = Good At Eating Competitions

I think this is the biggest mistake people make when it comes to competitive eating. I know this is about eating food, but liking to eat food doesn’t mean you’re going to be any good at it. It has been proven over and over again that skinny people tend to do far better in the competitions.

This is more about your ability to eat a huge sum of food in a very short period of time. That requires methods of fast consumption and maximum storing capacity.

2. You Don’t Treat This As A Serious Sport

I know that it can be very easy to view this as just some event that you would do at a carnival for fun, but the competitors you face are training. Just because you aren’t lifting weights are doing laps around the track doesn’t mean this isn’t a sport that requires training.

3. You Don’t Train Properly

The only way you can properly train for any event, you have to identify exactly what you’re eating. If you’re going into a hotdog competition, than you just can’t grab any hotdog from the store and start practicing with it. You need the exact size and the exact weight of hotdogs to train.

Typically events will be sponsored by the very food you’ll be eating, so it shouldn’t be hard to track down exactly what you’re expected to eat.

4. You Lack Mental Toughness

You’re going to feel things that you know you have to ignore. You just have to tell yourself that you’re going to keep going and that is all there is to it.

5. You’re Not Systematic

If you look at all the successful competitors out there for any competition, they’re all systematic. That means that they eat in a very continuous fashion. They’re putting food into their mouth, just as they finish swallowing some. Basically their comsumption of food is consistent. You can’t rush at the start and slow down. You have to consistently do the entire competition, just as a marathon runner goes consistently.

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