Fighter Secrets to Making Weight: 50 Secret Weight Cutting Tips for Boxing, MMA and Other Fight Sports
By Rob Carry
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Why? Because fighters at all levels are now cutting as much as 10 kilo (22 pounds) for weigh-in before putting it all right back on in time for the bell. Ignore the weight-cut process, and you'll wind up facing opponents who are far, far heavier than you.
Word is out and today, most fighters involved in boxing, MMA, Muay Thai, wrestling, BJJ, Judo and other fight sports all cut weight. Unless you're fabulously gifted, you're going to have to learn how to cut weight if you want to be competitive.
The pay-offs are huge. Use 50 Fighter Secrets to Making Weight to nail your weight cut, and you are going to be more physically imposing than your opponent. Even from a psychological stand-point, being bigger and stronger is going to stack the odds in your favour.
But cutting weight is a highly complex process that demands the correct know-how. You need to avoid the myths and mis-information cluttering up the internet. It could result in you messing up your weight cut and either not making weight, or suffering a loss in performance. It’s a risk that’s simply not worth taking – you need expert information you can rely on.
That’s where 50 Fighter Secrets to Making Weight comes in. It pulls back the curtain to reveal the facts behind this crucial aspect of the fight game – highlighting for the first time hard-won tricks, tips and wisdom from real fighters who have been successfully cutting weight for years.
It contains fifty facts you can put your house on. Follow them – and come fight day, all the smart money will be on you getting your hand raised at the final bell.
Willing to do whatever it takes to win? Then give yourself the edge. Get your copy of 50 Fighter Secrets to Making Weight now.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5It covers the basic consepts but doesn't help much with cutting. It doesn't include enough details if you are new to cutting in order to be able to do it, and it doesn't help at all if you have any experience at it as it merely covers the basics.
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Fighter Secrets to Making Weight - Rob Carry
9781483500102
In the modern era of combat sports, cutting weight is an essential skill. You can’t get away from it. If you walk into the ring, cage or onto the mat at the same weight you’ve been walking around at against an opponent how has successfully cut weight, you are putting yourself at a massive disadvantage. Some fighters are known to cut as much as 10 kilo (22 pounds). If you run into an opponent who managed their weight cut well they might have weighed in at the same weight as you, but they could turn up ready to fight far, far bigger than you.
Handing your opponent a 10 kilo advantage over you in any fight sport is unwise. You will need to be significantly faster, stronger, or more skilled to just level the playing field and neturalise the advantage you’ve given him.
It is such a key aspect of fight sports that the majority of the fighters you might face in MMA, boxing, Muay Thai or wrestling will have cut weight in some form. The word is out and the days of fighting at ‘walk-around’ weight are gone. In short, unless you’re fabulously gifted, you’re going to have to learn how to cut weight in order to be competitive.
However, cutting weight is a highly complex process that requires the correct know-how. A successful weight cut will involve first choosing the correct weight to aim for based on your ‘walk-around’ weight. Next, you will have to implement the correct weight-cut strategy that sees you come in on weight on weigh-in day. Finally, a successful weight cut will see you restore the weight you lost and then compete without any loss of performance.
Adopting the wrong weight cut strategy can be catastrophic – so you need to know what you’re doing. If you don’t, loss of performance may be just the start. For one, if you incorrectly manage your weight you might not make weight at weigh-in, and wind up having your fight cancelled. But the downsides of a poorly managed weight-cut don’t stop there.
If you cut too much or adopt the wrong strategy, you could find yourself suffering severe loss of performance during your fight. Fighters who have miscalculated their weight cut report feeling severly fatigued and even dazed during fights. As you would expect, fighters in this condition are also more succeptible to being knocked out. Others wind up so drained they can barely make it through their first round. The choice then becomes one of whether to stay in the fight and be a punching bag for the other guy, or quit – which is never good.
But it gets worse than just leaving fighters weak and unable to fight to their full potential. Cutting weight incorrectly can put