WASHINGTON — You probably can’t ride like a Tour de France cyclist. And if you’re anything like the Norwegian journalist in this video, you probably can’t eat like one either.
The incredible shape riders are in, and the amount of energy that they put out while doing the Tour, mean they pack away more than 8,000 calories a day, NRK journalist Nicolay Ramm found out. That’s a lot of food — a whole lot of food. (A grown man, Ramm says, should eat about 2,800 a day.) And after consulting with a Tour team chef on what exactly the riders eat, Ramm decided to try to pack it all away.
It’s not surprising that he doesn’t come particularly close; it may be a little surprising that he barely gets halfway, consuming about 4,300 calories’ worth of eggs, pasta, sports drinks, sandwiches, coffee, yogurt, energy bars (the seventh one really does him in), fruit and nuts in about five hours before he can take no more. A bucket is involved.
You are being warned. The video, while pretty funny, may be unusually revolting for those particularly grossed out by the sight of someone barfing, hurling, puking, reverse eating, shouting at their shoes, riding the regurgitron or any other of the somewhat disturbingly large number of slang terms it turns out there are for vomiting.
h/t TIME
