Feel Like Death in Fight Week? You Planned Wrong. I wish this happened once in a blue moon. But it happens all the time. A fighter has a fight coming up and has to lose some weight to make their weight class. They go into a deep calorie deficit and burn out. When weight loss stalls, they add more cardio on top of it just to get to that desired number.
Or they drop calories even more. The result is the same. They arrive burned out by the time fight week arrives, and that’s when they contact me.
“Alex, can you save me in fight week?”
Let me be very blunt here. I can help you make weight, but I can’t perform miracles.
You’re too late if you decide to hire a nutrition coach in fight week.
You want me to undo weeks of damage in only 7 days? At that point, you’re hoping. And hope is a losing strategy.
Here’s what to do instead.
You start 8 weeks out. Starting 8 weeks out gives you more than enough time to lose weight, fix your nutrition, and make sure you enter fight week thriving instead of surviving.
Professionals plan ahead.
Minimum commitment: 1 month.
Until next time
Alex
