How To Keep From Looking Like A Sumo Wrestler

1. Eat breakfast.

As part of their training, Sumo wrestlers skip breakfast and instead eat two gigantic meals later in the day.

The main reason they skip breakfast is because they cannot train 3-4 hours on a full stomach. The side benefit is that skipping breakfast helps slow down their metabolism.

By skipping breakfast and exercising strenuously for a few hours, the wrestlers are so hungry by lunch time that they are ravenous.

This is also what happens to average people who don't eat breakfast. They lose control of their appetites at lunch because their last meal was dinner the night before.

Weight loss experts say that one characteristic common to overweight people is that they seldom eat breakfast. Not only does skipping breakfast trigger overeating later in the day but it can also cause a five-percent drop in metabolism!

2. Eat 5 to 6 small meals throughout the day (and watch those portion sizes).

Sumo wrestlers go long periods between their meals - no grazing is allowed. If you want to keep your metabolism high and chugging along at a good clip, be sure and eat a healthy meal or snack every 3 hours or so. Grazing is good! As long as the food is healthy, of course.

Sumo wrestlers eat two gigantic meals, one at lunch and the other at dinner. Research indicates that eating one or two big meals a day makes your body more prone to hoarding fat compared to eating five or six small meals a day.

No one is born with the ability to eat that much food in one sitting so Sumo wrestlers have to progressively train their stomachs to stretch and accommodate larger volumes. They even have special massages to move the intestines around to enable them to consume more food.

So, what is a healthy-sized portion? Clench your fist and there's your answer.

If possible, try to make each meal consist of a portion of protein and a portion of carbohydrates. And don't leave out the healthy fats (avocados, nuts, seeds, olive oil, cold-water fish, flaxseed etc.), which are essential to good health. The American Heart Association has a cool calculator that will tell you how much fat you should consume daily, based upon your age and body type.

3. Lead an active life.

Sumo wrestlers take a 3-4 hour nap after lunch. After they eat dinner, they retire for the night. This makes sense for two reasons.

One, they want their wrestlers to conserve as much energy as possible so that most of the calories they eat will be deposited as fat.

The second reason is that sleep and rest are necessary for muscles to grow. Body builders know that it is during sleep and rest time that muscles are repaired and new protein is synthesized to add to the muscle size.

The weight loss lesson is that you want to stay as physically active as you can throughout the day to burn off calories and you definitely should not eat within an hour of going to bed.

No amount of exercise will make you lose weight if you eat more than you burn.

If you're new to exercise, start off s-l-o-w. A common mistake people make is biting off more than they can chew, and then they end up quitting exercise altogether.

I suggest a walking program because it's inexpensive, flexible and easy to track (especially with a pedometer). Start out with 10-15 minutes of walking and every day add a few more minutes.

In order to maintain health, you should get at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise, five days per week, or 20 minutes of high-intensity exercise, three days per week.

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