Ihaven't gotten stout and fat. I exercise. I geteighttoninehours of sleep every night andI'vestayed married to the same girlfor 66 years, which isimportant to haveagoodcompanion.
In between fighting, the wrestlers practise an exercise known as bukari-geiko, in which one wrestler throws himself at his ready companion and drives him from one side of the ring to the other, completing the exercise only when the inactive rikishi has been driven out of the dohyo.