Sumo wrestlers are fighters who don’t posses muscular physiques and do not practice a regular athlete’s training routine. All sumo wrestlers maintain their weight to be as possibly heavy as they can, making people wonder what could have made them fast with that kind of weight on them. The answer to that is their way of training and their unique fight diet. Gaining weight is very important for a sumo wrestler. They treat weight gain as part of their training for there are no weight divisions or weight limits in this sport. They can basically be as heavy as they want them to be. Actually, a Sumo wrestler’s daily calorie intake can reach as much as 8,000 kilo calories which is more than twice the calorie intake of an average male.

These kind of fighters starts their day at around 5:00 in the morning going directly to the place wherein they start they training with an empty stomach. They believe that strenuous training with an empty stomach is an advantage in the effort of gaining weight. It helps slow down the body’s metabolism making it more difficult to burn calories.

Around 11:00 in the morning, fighters take in their first meal of the day. For an average person, you can call it a feast for they are served with many different meats, vegetables and fish. It is a pretty big meal for they must eat and eat for them to gain weight. They call this meal a “Chankonabe” and practically, anything can go into chankonabe. This meal is very rich in protein and served with other side dishes. By not eating overnight and doing training first thing in the morning, a Sumo wrestler’s body is turned in to a fat storing mode. They can basically eat anything and everything what is served infront of them. Sumo wrestlers sit forming a circle while they eat 5 kilos of meat and a minimum of ten bowls of rice in one sitting.

Right after a heavy meal, they are instructed to go directly back to their bedrooms to take a long nap. By doing this, it helps sumo wrestlers to effectively gain weight faster as all the foods are being stored as fat in their body.

Around 6:00 to 7:00 in the evening, these fighters would come back to the dining table – yes, for dinner. One may say that such fight diet regimen and habits are unhealthy. It may be true as Sumo wrestlers usually die at an earlier age as compared with an average adult male. Obesity is a risk factor for different ailments, diseases and complications that can wear out body.

Though it has not been proven scientifically why such fighters die early, they still live on what they believe, continuing the tradition that is being passed on from generations to generations. Sumo wrestlers believe that these are the methods, the fight diet and habits that they need to follow to become great fighters.

Krav Maga is a no-nonsense fighting system developed for and used by the Israeli military forces, and it has been adopted by law enforcement personnel, the military and security services all around the world. It has also become a popular self defense system for civilians. The reason it is so widely adopted is simple: it works. When you train in Krav Maga you learn basic moves and techniques that are intended to stop your attacker as quickly as possible, and at the same time minimize any injury to yourself.

It’s fun to watch an extremely talented martial artist like Chuck Norris roundhouse-kick the bad guys on television, but if you want to learn how to defend yourself from attack in a range of everyday situations you should consider learning Krav Maga. This is especially important for women, who may find themselves under threat from a much larger male.

You will learn simple, instinctual striking techniques that were designed to work in real life close combat, and how to defend yourself in varied situations and from different positions. For example: defending yourself while behind the wheel of your car, or when seated in a bar or public place, or when grabbed in a deserted street.

Krav Maga techniques include punches, basic kicks, strikes using knees and elbows, and you will learn how to adapt everyday articles into makeshift self defense tools.

Equally important, when training in this system you will learn how to handle the stress of a real attack. Sadly, many traditional martial artists have found out the hard way that all their training did not work when attacked by a common street thug.

If you want to learn proven techniques that may just save your life, you owe it to yourself to learn Krav Maga.