My first amateur bout is coming up fairly quickly, and I had to come down from a walking-around weight of 160 to somewhere around 150. Which I did, no problem - my trainer told me what to eat and I ate it and it took about a week and a half. I was shocked at how easy it was, actually. But I'm just now starting to notice my energy flagging a little. I've felt really sluggish for a couple of days now and I gas out a little more quickly than I do usually. My reflexes haven't suffered but my offensive speed definitely has. I know we'll taper off a few days before the fight, but I have almost a week of training (including two more sparring sessions) before that happens and I'd like to get the most out of it. Does this lack of energy happen to anybody else when they're cutting weight and if so, what can you do to minimize it?
If you can weigh in the day before, I'll tell you how to cut that amount of weight safely. if not, then right hooker is right and that would be too much to cut without energy being poor.
Your trainer is an idiot. Did he tell you to just have soup every day or what? 10lbs in a week and a few days is ****ing stupid and unhealthy.
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No, the plan was pretty sound. I've read enough on this board and elsewhere to know that my trainer is not an idiot. I don't know why the weight came off so fast. I had three weeks to come down and I think we were figuring on my dropping no more than 5 in a week. The diet adds up to about 1200 calories a day (I don't eat much more than 1500-1600 when I'm not training for a fight) with no sauna time yet. I'll see if increasing food a little helps, and I'll research ginseng for next time, thanks.
Losing 10lbs in a week is not healthy at all. Even when not exercising 1200 cals a day is nowhere near enough to even maintain basic metabolic functions unless your a 80lb midget.
If he puts his boxers on a 1200 calorie diet he's a complete idiot nutrition wise. Clearly it's not fat, so water weight most likely. Any more than 2 pounds in a week isn't really healthy. You are not even eating enough to cover your BMR... I done some guess work, for a male, 5'9" and 155lbs BMR = 1800 calories a day. Eat more. It really is as simple as stop eating like a 12 year old girl and you'll be fine.
I'm on 1900 a day and I struggle at that... 1200 is ******ed- you getting 150g of protein in there too? If not your just creating a weaker, skinnier mini me.
Actually the basic amount of calories needed for your body is roughly equivalent to multiplying your weight in lbs by ten. If you were an 80lb midget you'd only need 800calories. That being said, sport obviously increases your necessary calorie intake.
Wow, you guys are making a lot of assumptions. My BMR according to the Harris-Benedict formula is 1188 and change (I come up a little higher on a few others but I think that formula's standard). I monitored my calories vs. BMR for a few months right around taking up boxing and figured out that I maintained on about 1400 before starting training and 1600 during training. So yeah, I did actually pay a little attention to all of that instead of wandering in off the street all, "I think I'll sign up for a fight with someone much smaller than me today, just for shits and giggles." But I guess got the best answer I could hope for out of you all: I'm an idiot. Honestly the most idiotic thing I've done all week is ask the internet for something I should have been asking my doctor. So I did. The actual answer if you're playing along at home: keep track of blood sugar, eat a little more, eat more often, get off this diet right after the fight. Thanks for the input though. That was a fun experiment.
theres too many of them, i trained at one of the best amateur clubs in london and some of those guys had no clue about nutrition. one coach told me that eating habit is like a clock, you just have to adjust it and you're fine, he then told me not to eat anything past 6 o clock and eat less as possible. another fighter was instructed to only drink about a litre of water a day maximum or he'll put on weight!atschatsch