How Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi Train for Competitive Eating | Unfinished Beef

- I'm Joey Chestnut, competitive eater. - I'm Takeru Kobayashi and I'm a competitive eater. This is how I train. - My practices are full contest simulations. Time myself, cook the hot dogs, very similar to the contest. Serve them just like the contest. I'll start training about eight weeks out and I get my body into a cycle. - Before every practice contest, there's a two-day cleanse. The cleanse is to make sure I'm absolutely empty. When I do eat, I can push to capacity, and then I repeat the cycle. And every practice, I try to eat a little bit more. - Leading up to a contest, I'm doing my cleanse for about two days, no solid food. I go in really, really empty. I can suck in my stomach and say, all right, there's a cavity where I'm gonna put 18, 19 pounds of food. - I don't look like it, but I do yoga and I do lots of stretching. - Competitive eating, it's all self-taught. You have to piece it together, a trial and error. - First thing I do is I drink water. - Before a contest, I'll go to the people that are sitting right in front or standing right in front. Tell 'em, you can yell at me. Even if it looks like I'm in pain, you can yell at me and don't let me get lazy. And they always say yes. - I practice my breathing, do a couple burping exercises. I just tell myself, be calm. - Watch Unfinished Beef live on Netflix, September 2nd. - [Producer] Can we hear one of the burping exercises? Is that possible? (Joey burping)

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