How do boxers dehydrate? methods?

Sweat suit is a common method. No fluid for a week? Are you serious? That would result in death.

 

Dehydration should be a last resort to lose a few pounds. Find the weight your body stays at when you train and fight at the closest weight. Relying on high levels of dehydration to make weight is a bad idea.

From the questions you asked (not drinking or eating for a week) I'm guessing you're young. These methods are something you shouldn't be worrying about.

 

So you know how dehydration affects you mentally? The more dehydrated you get, the more water you want. I would rather push my body to the limits training cos it´s easyer to find motivation for it then to dehydrate yourself.

 

What? You think boxers cut water weight for a challenge, to help "push through barriers"? Hmmm. No. It's to lose weight for a fight, nothing more.

Maybe you should try what you said in your first post and not drink anything for a week, then you'll have the mental strength to win any boxing match...

 

If i had to dehydrate, because i was entering a dehydration contest......plus fight.

The week leading up to the fight, i would cut out all Carboyhydrates..."Because Carboydrates retain water"............and i would just eat Chicken, Steak, Turkey i would just it protien, and the only carbs i would eat with be 50grams of Oats in the morning with some protien.I would probably drop 4lbs atleast just by doing this.

Then on the morning of the weigh in, i will go to the sauna take a duretic pill, and just sit there for however long i feel i can handle.

I would of probably dropped 8 pounds over the duration of the fight. And because i have been eating a high protien diet, still retained my muscle mass & density.

I'm 6"1 im always around 82kg.....180pounds.

 

I cut five pounds in a week by cutting carbs, eating salad and not eating after 8.

I can cut five pounds in a workout just in sweat.

**** isn't rocket science.

 

I think most pro athletes who cut wieght for a fight (which should be all of them just about) dont solely rely on dehydration.

They walk around and train with a normal amount of fat, and as their fight approaches (usaully the last week or two, where they wind down there training/energy expenditure), they modify there diet and reduce their body fat down to really low levels. Then they take the last few pounds of with de-hydration.

There is nothing special to the de-hydration part. sweat suit and suana.

They use this method though because the wiegh ins for thier fights are a day or 2 before their fight, and they can easily and safely re-hydrate themselves without it affecting their energy levels for the fight.

If you are an amatuer fighter, and wiegh in on the same day of the fight, or fight within hours of weighing in, it would be a silly way to lose anything but small amounts of weight, as i doubt you would be able to recover in time.

Just my 2 cents, hope it helps.

 

Cut sodium from your diet so you don't retain more water than you should, since I barely eat sodium anyway it doesn't help much for me personally. Sea salt is better anyway. Apart from that there are a few ways to get rid of fluids. Pissing, sweating and spitting. Spitting won't dehydrate you quickly, pissing intervals can only be shortened with potentially dangerous chemicals, so that leaves you sweating. Since the purpose of sweating is to lower body temperature, all it takes to sweat a lot is increasing that temperature and stop sweating from doing its job so the sweat will keep coming. In other words sweat suits, ten layers of clothing and a garbage bag, a conversation with a hot girl, whatever makes you sweat will do.

Having said this, it can be dangerous and should only be used for very small amounts of weight for short lengths of time.

 

steam rooms and dieretics. its a fine line to cut weight safely. these guys are always much larger in person when i see them than what their weight classes suggest or the equivalents in amateur ranks- because of the weight they can cut due to the stakes, weigh in regulations etc. i box at 140-147 but when i ve met pro boxers i ve always been like- mcuh much smaller than the welters i see or meet. the equivalent pros my size fight at like 130. they kill themselves to lose that weight often times. but there are alot of exaggerated stories- like how oscar said he ate only oranges on the week of the fight to make 135. probaly bull****.

 

im 6,1 and have been making 70kg for the last two week.i usually walk around at about 75kg but to get 70kg i dnt eat after tea time maybe some fruit and i wont eat past dinner time the day before my fight maybe sum fruit but i stay hydrated then on the day i get up early quick jog on treadmill with sweat suit then into the sauna afterwards.been working a treat won two weeks on bounce