Weight Cutting Strategies and Risks

So one of the things that we see fight athletes going through that is incredibly stressful is weight cut. So whether people are participating or competing in an event where there's a same-day weigh-in, so let's say five minutes before your event or your first fight, you weigh in, you go to the bullpen, you wait, or a 24 weigh where you go through that process of cutting down and then building back up in time for fight time Do you have any comments or any observations around mistakes that people make going through that cutting process? Yeah, for one thing, don't get fat in your off-season. That's part of it is just the simple fact that fighters let themselves go and they think that if they're heavier, they're going to train better, but that's simply not the case. you know if you're if you're fighting at 155 there's no reason for you to be 178 you know leading into four months out from your show and if or from your fight and if you are you need to start cutting that down especially if you have a same day weigh-in you simply just don't have enough time to to put water back in your body and that's super important where does that weight come from they're cutting shit tons of water okay when you cut shit tons of water and you get dehydrated your performance goes down you gas out much faster you need water to make more energy right you need so it's it's asinine for them to think that they they need to be 15 16 kilos heavier when they're you know entering that their prep and that's simply not the case they'd be better off if they slowly lean themselves out and stay at just a few kilos above their fighting weight so then it's a really minimal water loss uh for the actual competition or performance right now if it's a 24-hour weigh-in that's pretty easy you know uh i like uh what's his name mike dolce i really like his uh like i when i was powerlifting it was nothing for me to do you know 12 13 kilos and 24 hours on a weight cut and then blow back up the next day for uh my powerlifting but that's a whole different thing that's all that's an all-day event i'm doing basically doing nine reps total all fucking day i'm not going in there and trying to fight somebody for five minutes, right? So it's a bit different ordeal. We used to use things like I would cut carbs out about five days out. I would cut my water down a little bit. I would sit in a sauna, take a laxative and take a massive shit. You know, I'd usually do it. So you simply, I know fighters do it, but it's not the right thing to do because you end up not being as crisp. You end up getting hurt. Your timing's off. You can't think. You have no energy. So it's much better for them to do it more slowly