Weight cuts

seldomseen · Jul 25, 2016

How do fighters cut weight? I've always heard dehydrated. How do you dehydrate 20 or 30 pounds?

razorbackpicks · Jul 25, 2016

I've always heard water weight can be up to 10%, so if they have a way to drop a large portion of that, then they could she 12-15 pounds. The other I have no idea?

MattyMatt · Jul 25, 2016

Definitely cut weight, and it's more than water. 20-25 lbs is about the average. With the new 9am weigh-ins (weigh-ins on tv are for show) most fighters are gaining 12-15 pounds back easily, and all the ones I know say it's the best they've ever felt. Weight cut starts about 2-3 weeks out if done right and only needing to shed the last 2-3 lbs tops within 24 hours of official weigh-in.

CHOPTALK · Jul 25, 2016

Almost no carbs

MattyMatt · Jul 25, 2016

CHOPTALK said:
Almost no carbs

You'd be surprised...

seldomseen · Jul 25, 2016

If it starts 2-3 weeks out are they progressively scaling back their diet and then starving themselves for 2-3 days? There's no way I could do that.

Ricboff · Jul 25, 2016

seldomseen said:
How do fighters cut weight? I've always heard dehydrated. How do you dehydrate 20 or 30 pounds?

what's the time frame? If just days then its all water loss. We are about 50-60% water . I'd imagine they'd throw everything to try to extract water; laxative, diuretic , water intake minimal, sauna..etc. Not very healthy, of course.