Originally Posted by
monet
I would want no part of this sort of thing these days but maybe 15-20 years ago I would of messed with it. I would of trained and got serious about it though and wanted to bet some serious money on it. I always wanted to do this 9lb hamburger challenge at the Las Vegas Club but got talked out of it many times. They only had one person beat it and I am pretty sure it was Sonya Thomas.
In this challenge you paid 50 dollars up front and if you beat it they gave you your money back. The funny thing was that you had 24 hours to complete it. You could have them wrap up your food and put it in the fridge and come back later. I would think that it could easily be beaten and still am surprised of only one winner while it was active. At least that is how I remember the whole thing. I could be wrong about some of this since I am going off of memory.
Anyways I found this strategy to be funny but I would of got into it if I was doing this 100 McNugget Challenge...
WATER IS A COMPETITIVE EATER’S MOST IMPORTANT TRAINING TOOL.
He needed to increase his stomach capacity, which he did by drinking large amounts of water. Salem worked his way up to a gallon, which he can now drink in under a minute—and does so almost daily when he’s preparing for a competition.
“You have to go up and up and up,” he says. “It’s conditioning. Most people can work their way up to a gallon in a month. A gallon weighs eight pounds. In the majority of contests, we’re not consuming that amount of capacity. Joey Chestnut will consume maybe 5 or 6 pounds. If you do a gallon of water, you’re competitive with most of the eaters.” (He stresses that this strategy is for the pros—you definitely shouldn’t try it at home!)
Two or three times a week, Salem steams 6 to 8 pounds of broccoli and cauliflower, adds “a couple of pounds of sauerkraut,” and eats it in about 20 minutes—“at a fast pace, but not in contest mode”—then washes it down with a gallon of water.
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6 to 8 Pounds of Broccoli and Cauliflower and washes the whole thing down with a Gallon of Water in about 20 minutes!!