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Cutting Weight? Electrolyte Replacement Beverages Help

Weight cutting is a common practice in many sports. In a recent Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research article, researchers examined the role of electrolyte beverages in replenishing potassium, ... Continue Reading

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How to Cut Weight the Right Way

When I wrestled in high school and college, here's how I approached making weight: get super heavy over the weekend, start eating well on Monday, start cutting back on food and water by Wednesday, cut down ... Continue Reading

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Rehydration After Weight Cutting: Water Doesn’t Cut It

In weight-classed sports, athletes need to be approximately the same size as their opponents. The idea is to create a situation in which skill and athleticism are the determining factors for victory, not ... Continue Reading

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Making Weight in the Real World: How to Cut Weight When Life is Busy

When preparing for a competition the hardest thing for most people is not the actual training, but the diet and the cutting of weight. How do you cut weight and work full time? Better yet, how do you cut ... Continue Reading

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Making Weight: Why Fighters Cut Weight and 3 Tips for Doing It

There is an area of combative sports that all competitors have to face and none look forward to. It could be referred to as the single most difficult part in partaking in a combative sport. I am speaking ... Continue Reading

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Weight Cutting In Sports: Is It Truly an Advantage?

Weight cutting is a controversial subject in combat sports. With the possible health risks and extreme cases where athletes die as a result of Rapid Weight Loss (RWL), event organizers and schools often ... Continue Reading

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Choosing the Best Weight Class For Lifting

I lifted in my first Olympic meet in 1967 when I was seventeen years old, 175cm tall, and weighed 80kg, quite muscular for an untrained high-schooler. Looking back I seem to have developed some sort of ... Continue Reading

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