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Blog 11
22 Mar 2010 11:27PM
I'm just under 2 weeks out from Bushido Challenge, the hard training is
just about finished and my attention is about to switch to making the
weight for the fight. This for me and for most fighters is the shit part
of fighting.
Before I start going into details about how I get down to the weight,
let me throw this out there, fighters lie a lot, most fighters are good
liars and the biggest lie's fighters tell are usually about their weight
and their training. And possibly the size of their tadger, well in our
gym anyway.
I agreed to fight on Bushido Challenge back in January at this time I
was 89kg (truth 73kg). As I've stated before I train 7 days a week, 8
hours a day for 12 weeks for fights (truth 6 days a week, 2-4 hours a
day for 6 weeks). I also killed 3 of my training partners getting ready
for this fight.
I weighed 71kg 6 weeks out from the fight and my weight has slowly came
down over 4 weeks of hard training (no dieting just eating clean) to
around 68kg 2 weeks out from the weigh in. This is ahead of schedule for
me actually. So I've got 2 weeks to cut 6.8kg. My plan is, and this is
now tried and tested is to get to 66kg one week out from the weigh in,
although I'll be happy with a kg either side of that, (I cut over 5kg in
Japan in 24 hours after refusing to bin some meals I had made for after
the weigh in on the plane because of stupid rules about bringing certain
food into foreign countries). I'll be dieting down slowly to make the
water loss period easier. The diet should have me around or under 65kg,
24 hours before the weigh in and then I lose water to make weight. Again
tired and tested, I'll lose approx 1kg by fasting for 24hours, I'll lose
another 1kg by having a light exercise session (walk) and then what ever
is left by sitting in a salt bath for 20 minutes the night before the
weigh in and if need be again in the morning of the weigh in.
I used to
be on weight some times the night before a weigh in or hours before it, I
changed that after seeing an interview with Freddie Roach where he
talked about fighters cutting weight properly only being on weight
for the minutes it takes them to get on the scales which makes sense to
me. I don't mind the last day, I'm busy for most of it and I know the
hard part of the fight is almost over, I can go eat, relax and then
fight, whats better than that.
After making weight I'm careful to rehydrate and load everything my body
needs back in slowly, depending on the time between the weigh in and
fight I should get my weight back up to 80kg (truth 68-69 although I've
done 71kg once and I'm on pretty late at bushido challenge). Cutting
weight isn't complete just by making weight, managing to rehydrate,
refuel and then perform should also be considered part of the cut for
fighters as some guys make the weight then screw up after it.
Next blog I'll post up some of my training diary for this camp, I'm very
geeky and record almost everything training wise in some detail as I
find it helpful in planning camps, making changes for the future or
highlighting areas that might need attention, it also helps keep my
confidence high when I look back and see the work I've put in over 6
weeks.
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