Question: if a boxer is struggling to make weight

Cut their toe nails, laxatives, sauna also pretty much anything else to lose water from their bodies.

 

Dehydrate.
Not sure on the effects it will have the next day. I'm guessing not too much as they rehydrate and get some good sleep, get all their nutrients back etc. I'm also guessing that the effects of struggling to make weight over long periods will have more of an effect on the training camp more than the actual fight, but it's a domino effect, you have a bad camp, you have a bad fight.

 

everybody is different on how they make the weight, some train some run some cut out fluids the day before so they have a dry weight. this would be for day before weigh ins

if you have done the weight over time i don't think it is so much of a problem when it comes to fight time. the real problem occurs when fighters leave it to the last minute and strip the weight off by starving themselves.

 

No because there not putting on fat like you and I would if we gained a stone all of a sudden. They boil and dehydrate down to make a certain weight and then after the weigh in they will ear **** loads of carbs, sugary drinks and red meat to give them energy and build them back up to there natural weight.

When you hear about a boxer gaining 15lbs after the weigh, its most likley there were only at the low weight for a few days, perhaps even hours.

 

i've been told alex arthur put on nearly 20 pounds after the weigh in for the nigel wright fight and he looked terribly sluggish on fight night.

 

they are only ever on their weight for the couple of seconds they are on the scales. if you watch close they always grab for fluids when they step off.
on the food they don't go for sugary drinks but more rehydration and mineral replacement drinks. this is to replace the fluids they have been drying out.

 

qw

 

I guess thats what there supposed to do but allot wont. I no Calzaghe would get through a couple of fizzy lucozades and a giant dairy milk after a weigh in.

 

I didn't know Froch was up at around 180 on fight night, I thought he was barely over 170lbs.

Kessler I could understand, he always looks the best part of a division bigger than the opponent, how he makes 68 I'll never know.

Blowing up in weight and boiling down will eventually catch up with you, but if you take the weight off gradually with a proper diet plan, including drinking lots of fluids the effects will be much lower.

There's a difference between Hatton losing 40lbs over 12 weeks to Riddick Bowe losing a similar amount in six, of that I'm certain.

 

get the bin bags on......get the treadmill out, and put it in the sauna, and run like forrest gump......