Oh... OK... thank you for that...! Guess I'll just have to tell all the boxers and UFC fighters to stop doing it!
Methods for gaining muscle and losing fat
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Oh... OK... thank you for that...! Guess I'll just have to tell all the boxers and UFC fighters to stop doing it!
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Don't eat not one damn thing and run a marathon that evening, yea maybe lose 20lbs in 24 hrs
10-15 lbs for like 170-185 pounders is doable... 20 lbs for 205 pounders is also doable...
Yeah it's at the extreme of the range... most cut around 10-15 lbs before the fight.
GSP once cut about 20 lbs before weigh in for a fight at 170 lbs... Didn't say how he cut but he weighed in at 192 lbs the day of the fight!
http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cagewriter/post/1628?urn=mma,wp1628
Pretty hard to put on 22 pounds overnight if it isn't due to water loss and starvation the day before.
Example
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This dude lost 8 lbs in one hour!
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Obviously he's doing harder workouts than the stationary bike...!
There's lots of other examples out there but I think you guys get the point!
You'd probably die from that! :eek: 20 lbs is about the upper limit for people around 200 lbs... There isn't much left for you to lose after 20 lbs even if you extend it to 48 hours!
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Don't eat not one damn thing and run a marathon that evening, yea maybe lose 20lbs in 24 hrs
20lbs of tissue is about 60,000 cals burned , c'mon man
Yeah... Well they ain't cutting tissue... It's mostly water loss and starvation, cleaning out your bowels and so on... Obviously there's also some serious fat burn going on as well but it isn't the major part of it.
This is the original conversation. We're talking about cutting.
Dropping 20 lbs in 24 hours. Not a total of 25 lbs over an unspecified period of time as GSP achieved.
Don't get me wrong, phenomenal performance for these guys to achieve what they do.
The information you provided, though interesting, doesn't support your position.
Here's a video with a guy doing 20 lbs in 24 hours...
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Please no more comments about this... It's doable!
The clock ar 1:17 shows you that he had 17 hours and some minutes left to cut... So probably just bad speech on their part. It probably seemed like 2 days to him because he was up 24 hours... People usually stay awake for oh, I don't know... 12 hours or so in a day...
As I recall from season 1 of TUF he won the fight with a knockout... There's different schools of thought on whether it's good or not... It isn't good for your health and you might miss weight for the weigh-in. But if you do do it right you can come in to the fight heavier than your opponent which is the entire point. That way you can get a size advantage on him.
There isn't much of a point in doing it if you're too tired to fight though... If your opponent does the same thing it just cancels out and you'll both be fighting at 185 lbs despite having signed a contract for a fight at let's say 170 lbs! Eitherway, everybody does it... so... if you want to be a fighter you've got to do it too....
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