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Sumo wrestlers do not eat breakfast and eat before sleeping for MAX weight gain.

  • 30-07-2008 09:49PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭


    I mentioned this in another thread a week or so ago, just shows it is not just kelloggs marketing scam (though most of there cereals belong in the sweets section).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumo
    Rikishi (Sumos) are not normally allowed to eat breakfast and are expected to have a form of siesta after a large lunch. The most common type of lunch served is the traditional "sumo meal" of chankonabe which consists of a simmering stew cooked at table which contains various fish, meat, and vegetables. It is usually eaten with rice and washed down with beer. This regimen of no breakfast and a large lunch followed by a sleep helps rikishi put on weight so as to compete more effectively.

    I expect they have found this over centuries of trying it, so if you want to be as big as a sumo avoid the breakfast, and hit the chinese after the boozer to get your rice in with the beer, then straight to bed.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    rubadub wrote: »
    if you want to be as big as a sumo avoid the breakfast, and hit the chinese after the boozer to get your rice in with the beer, then straight to bed.

    :D


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