• Question: How do sumo wrestlers get THAT fat?

    Asked by LeBron James to Dan on 9 Nov 2016.
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      Dan Gordon answered on 9 Nov 2016:

      Interesting question. Sumo is an ancient discipline and the size/mass of these wrestlers is achieve through high calorie foods and actually doing very little exercise. Most of the training they do is in the sumo ring, they don’t really go to the gym. As a master sumo player in Japan you are treated very well, so someone will drive them everywhere, bring them their food etc. All so that they don’t burn energy and get tired.

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