How do boxers gain 14+ lbs in one day?

It's not hard. Drink a pint of water. There is one pound. Eat a load of food to store energy and completely hydrate = 5 - 6 kgs easy.

 

lol. Well, assuming you absorb it all. 1 litre of water weighs 1kg so yes you would.

Drink steadily over the 36 hours up to the fight after the weigh in. Eat lots for energy and you can easily gain 6 kgs.

 

So if you don't eat for a day and don't drink a litre of water you would lose half a stone in a day?

 

It's not that hard after you dry out.

 

First they dehydrate themselves (eat very little or nothing, jump rope in sona), one liter of water = 2.2 lbs, so the pounds add very fast.

 

I've always wondered the same thing

Some people eat like a horse, yet dont seem to put on any weight

Im wondering people with certain type of metabolism would be at a severe disadvantage as boxers for this very reason

 

It all go,s back on when you rehidrate yourself.
Why do you think boxers run for miles wearing sweat suits before a way in.

 

When I trained Kermit Cintron for his fight with Teddy Reid on HBO we left for Houston 1 week before the fight. The day we left camp he was 168lb. HE was able to eat 3 meals a day, and drink normally up until 3 days before the weigh in. Then I cut his meals back to a good healthy breakfast n no liquids over the next 2 days. The day before the weigh in he dried out till the weigh in. Made 146.5. Over the next 34 hrss he was rehydrated with a carb supplement called Karbolan, and pedialyte. His food intake was a steak, sweet potatoes, and brown rice after the weigh in. After that it was raw oatmeal mixed with appleasauce, and baby food. By the time he stepped into the ring he was 166lbs. The key for Kermit at that time is he was extremely muscular. So he was very easy to dry out. I delayed the drying out process until the last minute so that his body would spend as little time as possible in that depleted state. At that tim Kermit stayed in shpae year round. Made my job very easy. At the end of that camp Kermit was running 8 miles in 48 minutes. Benching 255 for 5 reps. Squatting 345 for 5 reps. Military press 90lb dummbbells for 5 reps. 5 chinups with 90 lbs on weight vest added to bodyweight.

 

Thanks for the interesting info!:good

 

Your telling me he did 5 presses above his head, with 2 x 40kg dumbells ?

 

Its posts like this which make people realise why boxers like Calzaghe had had enough of trying to make 168. Its ****ing brutal putting yourself through that every time you fight.

 

Great info! Thanks for posting it...

 

I wish they would just weigh them in on the day of the fight. This type of severe weight loss and gain is certainly not good for you, especially before a fight. I'm sure it makes you a bit weaker.