10,000 Calorie Challenge - Ironman Calories In A Day!

Between 7000 & 10,000 calories is the number of calories most athletes burn in an Ironman, we set out on a challenge to see if we could consume the same amount, minus the Ironman... see how we got on!
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[@gtn]

How many calories could you eat?

[@stephenneal23]

10,000 calories or as we call it in America: Dieting.

[@sarahgerk]

Best. Offseason. Challenge. Ever.

[@jaydesimone4297]

Now for the next challenge, consume the 10,000 calories in sports drink, bars, and gels only!

[@craigmckinlay4308]

If you did an Ironman in 13 hrs like I do then you would have 5 more hours to eat - win win 🏆

[@fightvids5240]

Imagine try to do this with healty food, crazy!

[@KwadSkwad]

just 52lbs of broccoli to get 8000 calories ... !!!

[@radosawmaecki5819]

Hi! Nice episode! Maybe, going further in the topic of food, you will show how many calories different specific players eat on an ordinary day in life / training? This is very interesting to me. I assume not only me😁

[@stevenlloyd6325]

Im fairly confident that Beard Meats Food could finish the calorie count in just the swim phase. This is like someone has consolidated my KZbin history! 😂 great work guys!

[@michaelslattery7588]

Beard is an absolute machine

[@aaronm6047]

I was just about to mention him haha 😄 👍🏻

[@richardhudson4649]

Katrina Eats Kilos could probably do it too.

[@davidtt8372]

I'm sure he'd come on the show.

[@good____soul]

😅 пропустив так багато відео, але відео про їжу не переглянути не можу 😂 дякую за вашу роботу

[@richardhudson4649]

My Garmin told me it was ~9000 when I did Mont Tremblant in 2018. 12:50 was my finish time.

[@michaelellison8329]

James and Mark are two classics

[@martyf.8088]

This is a great video. Thank goodness I was eating lunch while watching.

[@adamgraham7432]

Be great to see another video on eating for an Ironman but with no fast food , and or carb loading ideas

[@nathanmclain9027]

Oh man! You do realize that today was the start of my cutting for race season boys. You’re killing me.

[@Ironrav]

The range of 7500 to 10000 calories is fairly accurate. In all the Ironman events that I've done, I was well within that level of calorie burn. And the difference between finish times vs calories spent was very similar for me.

[@michellokhorst5883]

Wicked … iron mukbang💪🏻💪🏻

[@AaronGoodTimes]

Haha! You guys looked like you were ready to fall asleep at the end

[@Ergustavinho]

Check out GCN video with Connor about the 2400kcal shake ! That would have solved the problem

[@josephforeman4850]

This is utterly hilarious, yet very much interesting from my profession as a nutritionist.

[@3WalkingPoles]

Way to start Vegnuary. 😂

[@justinhammer3366]

Do you think I could fit 10 Big Macs in my bento boxes and still be aero??

[@juliustan1494]

LOL! Goes to show that Ironman-anything is a challenge. You two didn’t train or taper enough and fell behind on your fries / minute pace 😂

[@markbphilip]

I'd give this a go! Could easily double the cals at brekkie, beer and curry into the mix too to graze on.

[@SophieLDodd]

James: Pizza makes me gassy Next clip: James eating pizza

[@King-pi2zx]

Wasnt the Video already online yesterday?

[@willisnjim]

Interested how u recovered in the days following the challenge?! 😊

[@hineighbor]

Hell yeah this is my kinda diet

[@giuseppeferrara952]

"You can't ever eat as many calories as you burn in an Ironman." Lol. You probably never heard of Erik the Electric, who managed to BURN and EAT 10000 calories in one cycling session.

[@wilsonruns3381]

Agree Eric the Electric even ate 1000g of sugar and then took a blood sugar test

[@williamallen1739]

Valuable

[@mattyaztec]

Mark had the meat sweats had many of them after demolishing a kabab lol

[@PivotFirearms]

I want to try this challenge. I feel like I could win! Good try gents!

[@villevalste1888]

You were so close too. With a bit of training, I bet you could get to that 9000kcal target in no time.

[@jagrutirathod]

James - if it's not on strava it didn't happen... ⌚😂

[@jascollinscork]

Great video guys…… but I hate you right now….. I’m watching this at 11 pm 🤤😭

[@codymusser6649]

That’s pretty interesting, I burned around 7500 back in October for a 12:51 Ironman. Never thought to look back at my total cal til this video

[@richardhudson4649]

I was 12:50 finish I my Garmin told me ~9000. I am 6'1 and was just under 200lbs when I finished.

[@jonathanzappala]

It all looked yummy, except for the first half of breakfast, I wasn’t sure all what was on those plates.

[@markthrelfall3577]

Worryingly I’m not sure many people do 😂

[@giovannitertulli4962]

Do ironmen also eat healthy stuff sometimes?

[@lkjay7032]

Curry, kebab and beer - c’mon lads, put your backs into it! 😆

[@richardperreault3313]

I got an idea for a video, let see how much junk food we can eat before getting sick… clearly Heater have been gone from the office for too long.

[@MrCozzie28]

What if they had blended each meal into a shake and drank it out of a bike bottle lol?

[@beanynash1]

you should have paired with Beard meats food

[@GavinHarte]

My Ironman races have been between 5500 and 6500. I thought the 9000 was very high.

[@nightsfalling]

Mine too, I read somewhere the more you do an activity the more efficient your body becomes and it burns less calories for the same exercise.

[@jobanski]

WHAT?! Are you telling me 1/4 pounder with cheese are not called “Royal with Cheese”? JOHN TRAVOLTA HAS SOME EXPLAINING TO DO! 😂 Seems like it’s been a while since Heather has been on. How is she?

[@PivotFirearms]

She was having a well-deserved break in southern North America. Looked like she was having a lot of fun!

[@kevinkeppler7220]

That was fun

[@gtn]

Glad you think so!

[@KwadSkwad]

I'll be honest, while I can eat food like a bottomless pit (especially while peaking in training season).. the thought of drinking a soda makes my stomach churn. Cut it out of my life maybe a decade ago and i can't do it again :D :D

[@kerrynball2734]

Goto Mexico and have a glass of water straight out of the tap between each meal. You'll have plenty of room.

[@WittyTzipporah]

Check out Erik the Electric, an Ironman athlete who routinely does calorie challenges - kzbin.info

[@luanmaia]

God, imagine estima 10k calorias of "clean" food?

[@eoincasey5461]

There is 210 calories in a Pint of Guinness.. so a about 47 and a bit pints for 10000 calories.. would have been a better way of getting the calories in if you ask me 😂

[@markthrelfall3577]

😂

[@cosmonautagt]

I'm a heavy eater myself during training season, but watching this video made me felt a bit sick towards the end. Not sure if I would've watched you finishing the challenge lol

[@markthrelfall3577]

Haha sorry 😂

[@tatianafonseca6686]

For a 70.3 I burned 2640 calories.. Even if I double that thinking on a full Ironman takes me to 5280.. How everyone is burning a lot more then me?. Female, 164cm, 63Kg.. What's wrong with me?.

[@ronanvandervaart232]

What App did you guys use to calculate the calories for each meal??

[@mikoajlipowski6750]

one big bottle of coke (2 liters) = 840 kcal; 10 bottles and you're almost there :D

[@NwaAzhari]

😁

[@tomekwolny5606]

Thanks for the video. To help debunk some myths and double down on the video, id love to see you guys do this gluten free and vegan. I’d love to see you get to 10k in veg and beans and rice

[@yogipool]

😮🧘‍♀️

[@Kalenjinstf]

I have a better challenge for you guys. A regular gel is 100 calories. So, to eat 10 000 calories you need to consume 100 gels. Do it in 10-12 hours. Let's say you try to ingest 1 gel every 6 min. (and only because I care about you, we will add that you can drink as much water as you want during the day. And, because I care about you, let me advice you against choosing gels that contain cafeine !) Have fun ! (It is like the Centurion (you know, that student thing done with beer... but kind of an athlete's version...)

[@laurentpainchaud4281]

Why eat crap food though?

[@robcrerie8516]

Perhaps it’s wise that the next video actually shows what foods you should eat, when training for an ironman. The quantity of burned calories is there but anyone new or unsure of diet, would probably mimic this video. Not the best content to post for supposed athletes.

[@Lukas-bl9wy]

Waste of food 😢

[@vegan4theanimals2]

Come on! Atletes eating junk food...?

[@neillgowans4350]

Too much like enjoying yourselves. Do it with IM sports nutrition sat down at a desk then we would see real struggle.

[@fatgirlonbike7153]

Amateurs! Just top Up your Main meals with Tons of chocolate and nice Desserts. And also add some alcohol. Come on, you should be able to do that - WE Just Had a nice Bootcamp - called Christmas and new year. 😉

[@giuseppeferrara952]

Yes, but one of the rules of the challenge is no liquid calories allowed.

[@GregBecker]

I wondered if there was a chance to drink more calories... Eat chocolates and jelly babies... It would be really interesting if you would look at the nutrition in and after races as well. Kona 2019 was pathetic: french fries and pizza after the finish line, and rationing ice creams - I think they wanted to give you half each at one point. (I understand the field may have been faster than normal, but I beat a fair few and there was nothing to refuel at the finish.) Challenge Cape Town 2019 - they were sponsored by Pepsi max - I mean SUGAR FREE!!! I don't know how these event organisers can take your entry fee and not budget for 2l soda in the race, and 500ml at the finish. (I won't even talk about the Jailbreak triathlon which ran out of fluids before folk finished... and it was 40C! Someone organised a hosepipe for us to drink from...)

[@aklamo]

Interesting to see how much food is required to achieve this calorie count, but why put your body through eating such garbage? This same challenge, but with properly nutritious food.

[@deankrain]

I can't believe you didn't even attempt to finish the challenge. What kind of endurance athletes are you? Shameful 😂

[@savagepro9060]

they just put the END in ENDurance

[@vrulegend]

Fake. I do Ironman and i est bearly 4.5 k

[@alexm1841]

That good is crap. Calorie dense with not much nutritional value. Eating that many healthy calories would be 10 times more difficult

[@pierojunemann1568]

I'd prefer healthy eating like a real Ironman would do😐

[@mathieunorry]

Why are all the calories coming from junk food ? Its ironic that the 'food' included here includes a dry up, KFC, mac Donald's and pizzas. I'd argue the two guys are feeling awful in part because of the trans fats, sugar, salt and preservatives in this highly processed junk food. A silly idea for a video.

[@Ivan_Nano]

Was thinking the same. Made me sad.

[@tradestone100]

I think it is because is easier. More calories per weight and, off course, more appealing, making it easier to want more (something important as you can see in the video)

[@markthrelfall3577]

As always, thanks for your input Mathieu. It’s just meant to be fun, as many people seem to have taken it. Also there are typically far more calories in these types of foods, whilst still being appealing

[@bikeanddogtrips]

with all of that junk food and dead animals - are you guys still constipated? 🤣

[@iandoddsblah]

Speaking as someone with a plant-based diet... Do you realise that sanctimony does nothing to help people reconsider?

[@9to5triathlon96]

Pure garbage misleading information. Wonder if people watch this and believe anything

[@Ivan_Nano]

McDonald’s, really? No serious athlete would go there. The challenge would be better done in my opinion with things athletes eat. You can top it up with energy gels, etc. Sad choice :/

[@tradestone100]

They already did that, a challenge homemade vs gels vs Coca-Cola

[@markthrelfall3577]

Yep, we have done a lot on this already. This is merely a bit of fun. High calorie foods that are appealing

[@tuomas_koskinen]

Awful clickbait. Unsub.

[@markthrelfall3577]

Keep watching, we explain some interesting facts about calories consumed during an Ironman

[@iandoddsblah]

Byeeeeeeeeee xxx

[@corinbertrand]

seems an odd choice to unsub from a triathlon channel because of clickbait on a food challenge video that's simply meant to be a bit of fun. The point of the video is to get across the huge amount of calories an iron man burns and they accomplished that.

[@jensmith3719]

@@corinbertrand yes some folk can take life too seriously, i wouldnt normally watch a gorge fest as overeating isnt that attractive to watch, but as you say it was looking at the enormous amount of energy expended in a triathlon in a fun way, and they ate nicely, not stuffing enormous amounts of food in to beat some time challenge which for me is pretty gross in a western world riddled with obesity, hmm, perhaps its me starting to take life to seriously !!! anyway i like this channel and these guys,

[@ollis7679]

And if you sit and listen you'll find heaps of great info, it's not just a challenge, there is method! ✌️