Hi all, I need some advice on diet. I’ve been scheduled an MMA fight at the end of march. The diet im on at the moment is working for gradual fat loss. It’s my first MMA fight and haven’t gone through what other fighters do for diet before. I know all about cutting twater weight, but as for actual meals what do MMA fighters eat to shred fat fast? Thankyou
What’s your weight now?
What weight are you fighting at?
How much does your weight vary between morning and evening?
Is it a same day weigh in, or the day before?
Your coach should have a grip on all of this…
Getting shredded has absolutely nothing, in and of itself, to do with being at your optimum as a fighter. Being shredded is a question of aesthetics, and a whole load of pretty boys have got themselves fucked up in the ring by less impressive looking specimens. Cut to the weight you’ll be fighting at, which should be fairly close to where you are now, 6 weeks out from your first fight.
You’re not a seasoned pro and you have no business cutting 30lbs and drying out like crazy for this, if that’s your intention. There is enough to worry about without trying to join the cast of the ‘biggest loser’, and it’ll only increase your chances of getting hurt. If you’re a fat fuck, put the fight back and get your shit in order, or fight at a higher weight.
If you’re not, then you should only have MAX 10lbs or so to drop in 6 weeks. In which case, post your daily diet, and we’ll see what you can cut and when to maintain your performance level while dropping weight slowly.
Horsemeat
Best advice I can give is download Dolce Diet cookbook on Amazon. Find some meals you like in there and cook them. I make the Champion Chili quite regularly, Any kind of chicken. Basically meat and vegetables and you can time your carbs based on needs to help out. Take lots of fish oil and do roadwork or cardio on an empty stomach when you can like in the mornings. Stay doing Cardio run, jump rope, spar rounds, hit the bag or focus mitts. Eat Carbs after workout, drink lots of water and keep doing that.
When you get closer to the fight you will want to cut out salt as much as possible if you are still over. I will save the Oh shit scenario details for when and if you get to that point. My last fight at 170 sucked big donkey dicks and I was 12 pounds over the day before weight ins. I ran miles on an elliptical in a sauna suit that night and the day of weigh ins I spent several hours in and out the sauna, in the suit weighed in at 169.5 Felt like shit.
[quote]Ranzo wrote:
Best advice I can give is download Dolce Diet cookbook on Amazon. Find some meals you like in there and cook them. I make the Champion Chili quite regularly, Any kind of chicken. Basically meat and vegetables and you can time your carbs based on needs to help out. Take lots of fish oil and do roadwork or cardio on an empty stomach when you can like in the mornings. Stay doing Cardio run, jump rope, spar rounds, hit the bag or focus mitts. Eat Carbs after workout, drink lots of water and keep doing that.
When you get closer to the fight you will want to cut out salt as much as possible if you are still over. I will save the Oh shit scenario details for when and if you get to that point. My last fight at 170 sucked big donkey dicks and I was 12 pounds over the day before weight ins. I ran miles on an elliptical in a sauna suit that night and the day of weigh ins I spent several hours in and out the sauna, in the suit weighed in at 169.5 Felt like shit. [/quote]
I think you did the water cut wrong. At your weight cutting and putting back on 12 pounds of water, and feel great for the fight, is totally manageable.
I’ve been more on the modified paleo approach for actual fat loss, but I’m really looking at Dolce now. I’m tired of training tired, and need more energy (carbs really) throughout the day. My problem is that I’m dialed in on how to maintain and make weight on my current diet. Part of this is that I dropped weight classes, so I think my body is still wanting to get back up to my previous walk around weight, but I am concerned about trying to follow Dolce’s stuff, where it seems like a lot of it depends on self-regulation of portions and eating times.
I’d still argue the fastest route to fat loss/weight loss to make weight quickly will be a modified low-carb/paleo approach. But it’s become clear to me that this approach is sub-optimal once you’re at the weight you want to walk in at, and just want to be able to train hard/improve body composition, but not necessarily lose weight.
making weight is more about water weight, unless you are overfat.
[quote]Spartiates wrote:
[quote]Ranzo wrote:
Best advice I can give is download Dolce Diet cookbook on Amazon. Find some meals you like in there and cook them. I make the Champion Chili quite regularly, Any kind of chicken. Basically meat and vegetables and you can time your carbs based on needs to help out. Take lots of fish oil and do roadwork or cardio on an empty stomach when you can like in the mornings. Stay doing Cardio run, jump rope, spar rounds, hit the bag or focus mitts. Eat Carbs after workout, drink lots of water and keep doing that.
When you get closer to the fight you will want to cut out salt as much as possible if you are still over. I will save the Oh shit scenario details for when and if you get to that point. My last fight at 170 sucked big donkey dicks and I was 12 pounds over the day before weight ins. I ran miles on an elliptical in a sauna suit that night and the day of weigh ins I spent several hours in and out the sauna, in the suit weighed in at 169.5 Felt like shit. [/quote]
I think you did the water cut wrong. At your weight cutting and putting back on 12 pounds of water, and feel great for the fight, is totally manageable.
I’ve been more on the modified paleo approach for actual fat loss, but I’m really looking at Dolce now. I’m tired of training tired, and need more energy (carbs really) throughout the day. My problem is that I’m dialed in on how to maintain and make weight on my current diet. Part of this is that I dropped weight classes, so I think my body is still wanting to get back up to my previous walk around weight, but I am concerned about trying to follow Dolce’s stuff, where it seems like a lot of it depends on self-regulation of portions and eating times.
I’d still argue the fastest route to fat loss/weight loss to make weight quickly will be a modified low-carb/paleo approach. But it’s become clear to me that this approach is sub-optimal once you’re at the weight you want to walk in at, and just want to be able to train hard/improve body composition, but not necessarily lose weight.[/quote]
well I started out weighing about 195-196. I was lifting heavy before that and probably eating too much. I started dieting and realized I was not going to make weight. I was really in a time crunch to loose the weight because I had mismanaged my time. I was pretty dehydrated at the weigh ins and felt like total crap but the next day, fight day, I felt pretty good.