A full 12 round fight, how much water would you say a fighter would drink in total for the whole contest?
1 water bottle with electrolytes so you don't feel parched no more. 30 mins of intense exercise. If you are having adrenaline dumps and get mentally fatigued you've already lost half the battle as it will physically fatigued you. Water doesnt actually help much anyway since you can't process it but it feels better, ability to get a good sweat on and cool down is more important. Nothing worse than seeing a dry fighter.
12 rounds is only 36 mins of intense exercise, you wouldn't need to take on much if any fluids at all unless you came in seriously weight drained or the fight was happening in extreme heat and humidity. As Miniq said it would have zero impact on your performance as it's only water and you can't lose enough in that time to effect your performance. When you see runners doing long distance events they are not just taking water on, but carbs to fuel their runs, that's the important part not the water and a boxer doesn't fight long enough to ever get close to depleting glycogen stores.
I never fought longer than 4 rounders, although I sparred many more several times. For me, just a sip or one “drink” per break was good. Id imagine over 12 a bottle of water for most people would be sufficient.. Everyone is different though! More for the feeling or wetting my mouth than anything, honestly. If the coach poured a mouthful I’d spit most of it out.
I really have to ask if Buddy McGirt is the trainer. That's an important factor. Hmm. I am not saying this to seem like I know any more about it than any normie but I know some fighters are meant to have hit the point of rhabdomyolysis like had been noted in Provodnikov/Bradley, which was pretty brutal and I am not sure about hitting rhabdo without exhausting your glycogen stores, and would be interested in following that if that's going to happen without a storage disorder, for instance.
For the most part, boxers don't want much in their stomach. (they swallow very little) You don't want a belly full when getting punched in the stomach. They rinse their mouths and spit out most of the water this clears the blood, phlegm and vaseline from their mouths so they don't swallow it. Fighters eat and hydrate well before fight time so it moves out of the stomach into the digestive tract.
Same here. Drinking too much made me feel like ****, I prefered not to drink anything at all. Spitting it was probably the best. Nevertheless, sparring and amateur experience has nothing to do with champions fighting 12 rounds. Talking about water, I didnt like at all the cold water poured on my back either. It made me want to punch my trainer instead of my oponent. That's probably why trainers do that, though.
This. I’d say mostly rinse your mouth out to keep it from being dry and maybe if you feel the need let a little bit trickle down your throat for the same reason. I’ve never told or wanted a fighter to actually drink water during a fight. You get hit in the belly and it’s coming back up.
Remember this little bit of wisdom - when you’re dehydrated normal levels don’t return till 4 days later.
