You have to be in good shape... to be a professional GLUTTON!

[astro]

I guess you do!

You Have to Be in Good Shape To Eat 4.21 Hot Dogs a Minute

Ed “Cookie” Jarvis wakes up most days at 6 a.m. and
goes to the gym to work out. He spends two hours there, riding 29 miles on an exercise bike and walking a mile on an indoor track.

Two weeks before a big contest, he eats a head of boiled cabbage every day when he gets home and drinks two gallons of water as fast as he can.

“It’s becoming very time-consuming,” says Mr. Jarvis, who is 36 years old and has been eating competitively for nearly two years.

According to the International Federation of Competitive Eating, which organizes several events such as the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Contest in Coney Island and is run out of a New York public-relations firm, Mr. Jarvis is the world’s pizza, ice cream and french-fry eating champ. His records include consuming a 17-inch pizza in three minutes and devouring six pounds, 14 ounces of ice cream in 12 minutes

etc etc

Mr. Booker, a New York City subway conductor, has also been training by doing competitive judo for the past 2½ years. The intricate hand movements and sharp focus judo requires translate into faster eating, he says. And like Mr. Jarvis, he eats eight to nine pounds of boiled cabbage and chugs a gallon of water in 2½ minutes every day for 10 days before a big contest.

“From 1997 to 1999, I just showed up and ate,” says the 6-foot-5 Mr. Booker, who weighs 400 pounds and aims to lose 130 pounds in the next year. "But right now I’m learning so much, and there’s so much I want to shoot for. I’m getting to a level of concentration where it’s just me and the dogs

[UrbanChic]

astro, there was a show on TLC or the Discovery Channel about competetive eaters. One guy runs 4 hours a day, several days a week. It was amazing.

What’s funny, though, is the Japanese constestants slaughtered them at the Coney Island Hotdog eating contest.