https://fightercut.com/blog/ Weight cutting, fight camp, commission rules and nutrition for combat athletes — sourced. en https://fightercut.com/blog/off-camp-weight-between-fights https://fightercut.com/blog/off-camp-weight-between-fights Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT The ISSN puts off-camp weight at 12–15% above the division and says the figure is unsubstantiated. Nobody has measured what fighters actually weigh between fights. https://fightercut.com/blog/bone-health-in-combat-athletes https://fightercut.com/blog/bone-health-in-combat-athletes Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Eight cuts in three years — what did they do to your skeleton? Nobody has measured it. Here is what the bone evidence does establish, and where it stops. https://fightercut.com/blog/gut-problems-in-fight-camp https://fightercut.com/blog/gut-problems-in-fight-camp Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Nausea, cramps and a stomach that quits mid-camp: the measured mechanism, the three amplifiers that stack on top of it, and where the evidence runs out. https://fightercut.com/blog/vegetarian-and-vegan-fight-camps https://fightercut.com/blog/vegetarian-and-vegan-fight-camps Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Plant protein is not incomplete and vegans build muscle on matched protein. The trials that show it, their limits, and the nutrients that need a blood test. https://fightercut.com/blog/alcohol-in-fight-camp https://fightercut.com/blog/alcohol-in-fight-camp Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT What the alcohol studies measured, at what dose, in whom. The 37% figure came from twelve drinks. The sleep finding came from two. Both are reported here. https://fightercut.com/blog/eating-around-two-a-day-training https://fightercut.com/blog/eating-around-two-a-day-training Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT The 30-minute anabolic window traced to its origin, what the ISSN combat stand says about sessions under six hours apart, and why the evidence is not in a deficit. https://fightercut.com/blog/daily-hydration-in-fight-camp https://fightercut.com/blog/daily-hydration-in-fight-camp Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT No combat sport appears in the sweat-rate literature. Here is what has actually been measured on ordinary training days, and why nobody can hand you a number. https://fightercut.com/blog/micronutrients-under-energy-restriction https://fightercut.com/blog/micronutrients-under-energy-restriction Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT A long deficit removes the food that carried iron, vitamin D and calcium. What the evidence shows, and why a blood test is the only honest answer. No doses. https://fightercut.com/blog/fat-intake-floors-for-fighters https://fightercut.com/blog/fat-intake-floors-for-fighters Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT The combat-sports position stand puts a fat floor under a descent. Both combat cohorts with measured fat data sat above it and were short on energy anyway. https://fightercut.com/blog/carbohydrate-periodisation-for-fighters https://fightercut.com/blog/carbohydrate-periodisation-for-fighters Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Carbohydrate has a floor inside a camp deficit and a phase around it. What the 2025 ISSN stand puts under it, what depletion costs, and why train-low failed. https://fightercut.com/blog/telling-your-coach-you-are-hurt https://fightercut.com/blog/telling-your-coach-you-are-hurt Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Of 214 former college athletes who recalled a concussion, 33.2% hid at least one. No study measures what telling your coach actually costs a fighter. https://fightercut.com/blog/painkillers-in-fight-camp https://fightercut.com/blog/painkillers-in-fight-camp Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Ibuprofen most days in camp: what the kidney, gut, liver and healing evidence actually shows, where it stops, and why this page contains no doses at all. https://fightercut.com/blog/how-an-mma-weigh-in-works https://fightercut.com/blog/how-an-mma-weigh-in-works Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Unified Rules of MMA set no weigh-in time at all. Here is what nine commission documents actually require, and what the ceremonial weigh-in is worth. https://fightercut.com/blog/overuse-injuries-in-fight-camp https://fightercut.com/blog/overuse-injuries-in-fight-camp Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Nothing happened, but it has hurt for six weeks. Why overuse problems stay invisible to the surveillance that defines injury, and what the evidence supports. https://fightercut.com/blog/beta-alanine-for-fighters https://fightercut.com/blog/beta-alanine-for-fighters Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT What the ISSN stand and trials in boxers, judoka and kickboxers say about beta-alanine's dose, its harmless tingling side effect, and where the evidence stops. https://fightercut.com/blog/how-a-wrestling-weigh-in-works https://fightercut.com/blog/how-a-wrestling-weigh-in-works Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT What actually happens at a wrestling weigh-in: the clock, the skin check, attempts on the scale, attire, allowances and what a miss costs, per rulebook. https://fightercut.com/blog/knee-injuries-in-grappling https://fightercut.com/blog/knee-injuries-in-grappling Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Everyone heel-hooks now. One small study found a 12-fold knee injury risk — with an interval running from 1.5 to 96.1. Here is what is actually known. https://fightercut.com/blog/do-clothes-count-at-a-weigh-in https://fightercut.com/blog/do-clothes-count-at-a-weigh-in Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT No rulebook we read grants a two-pound clothing allowance. What UWW, the NCAA, NFHS, the IJF, the IBJJF, Nevada and California actually require on the scale. https://fightercut.com/blog/hand-and-wrist-injuries-in-striking https://fightercut.com/blog/hand-and-wrist-injuries-in-striking Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT In 98 male Olympic boxers over 232.8 boxer-years, carpometacarpal instability was the most common hand diagnosis at 21.6% and cost a mean 54.3 days. https://fightercut.com/blog/how-long-should-a-fight-camp-be https://fightercut.com/blog/how-long-should-a-fight-camp-be Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT No commission, promotion or study sets a proven fight-camp length. Here is what periodization science and real training-load data actually show. https://fightercut.com/blog/returning-to-training-after-a-knockout https://fightercut.com/blog/returning-to-training-after-a-knockout Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT A commission suspension is an administrative minimum, not a medical clearance. What New York, California, Virginia and Nevada actually say, verified at source. https://fightercut.com/blog/what-to-eat-when-cutting-weight https://fightercut.com/blog/what-to-eat-when-cutting-weight Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Which foods earn a place on a fighter's plate in a deficit, what the trials actually measured, and which popular rules die the moment you chase the source. https://fightercut.com/blog/do-water-pills-work-for-a-weight-cut https://fightercut.com/blog/do-water-pills-work-for-a-weight-cut Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Diuretics move fluid, and that is the least important fact about them. The 2026 Prohibited List, seven sanctioned athletes, and the kidney data. https://fightercut.com/blog/menstrual-cycle-and-weight-cutting https://fightercut.com/blog/menstrual-cycle-and-weight-cutting Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Almost all weight-cut research is built on men. Here is what is actually established about hormones, fluid retention and weight cutting in female fighters. https://fightercut.com/blog/training-around-an-injury https://fightercut.com/blog/training-around-an-injury Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT The pain rule everyone quotes was written for one tendon, inside a supervised clinic, for patients already examined. It was never a rule about your injury. https://fightercut.com/blog/adcc-weight-classes-and-weigh-in-rules https://fightercut.com/blog/adcc-weight-classes-and-weigh-in-rules Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT ADCC moved weigh-ins from same-day to the day before in 2023. The current weight classes, the 0.5 kg allowance, and what changed for women at the 2026 Worlds. https://fightercut.com/blog/sparring-volume-and-camp-design https://fightercut.com/blog/sparring-volume-and-camp-design Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT No federation, commission or governing body anywhere caps sparring volume. Here is what the evidence actually contains, and why nobody can give you a number. https://fightercut.com/blog/water-weight-versus-fat-loss https://fightercut.com/blog/water-weight-versus-fat-loss Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT A day's scale move is dominated by throughput, not tissue. The energy arithmetic that proves it, and the four signals that tell real fat loss from water. https://fightercut.com/blog/how-long-water-weight-takes-to-come-back https://fightercut.com/blog/how-long-water-weight-takes-to-come-back Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Body mass returns in hours to about a day. Hydration markers and repeat-effort capacity do not. The measured timelines in both directions, with their cohorts. https://fightercut.com/blog/injury-rates-in-bjj-and-grappling https://fightercut.com/blog/injury-rates-in-bjj-and-grappling Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Judo tournaments counted 10.9-115 injuries per 1000 exposures under one definition and 4.2-60 under another, in the same events. Why grappling rates disagree. https://fightercut.com/blog/injury-epidemiology-in-mma https://fightercut.com/blog/injury-epidemiology-in-mma Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Pooled MMA competition injury rates run 228.7 per 1,000 exposures with a CI four times wide. Ringside physicians missed 78% of time-loss problems athletes reported. https://fightercut.com/blog/losing-water-weight-in-24-hours https://fightercut.com/blog/losing-water-weight-in-24-hours Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT What one day can actually take off, what the published figures really measured, and why the 24-hour number is the smallest of the three, not the biggest. https://fightercut.com/blog/boxing-weight-cut https://fightercut.com/blog/boxing-weight-cut Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT How boxers cut weight under day-before pro weigh-ins, WBC check weights, the IBF fight-morning limit and same-day amateur scales, and what studies measured. https://fightercut.com/blog/how-to-lose-water-weight-for-a-weigh-in https://fightercut.com/blog/how-to-lose-water-weight-for-a-weigh-in Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT What water weight actually is, how much the research says moves, what the weigh-in format decides for you, and which popular figures have no source at all. https://fightercut.com/blog/wrestling-weight-cut-diet-and-meal-plan https://fightercut.com/blog/wrestling-weight-cut-diet-and-meal-plan Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT How a wrestler eats through a season-long descent: the macro floors, a worked sample day, tournament refuelling, school-day meals and the early RED-S signs. https://fightercut.com/blog/how-ufc-fighters-cut-weight https://fightercut.com/blog/how-ufc-fighters-cut-weight Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT How UFC fighters cut weight, from the published record: the day-before weigh-in, the 1 lb allowance, data on 616 fighters, the regain, and what California changed. https://fightercut.com/blog/college-wrestling-weight-classes https://fightercut.com/blog/college-wrestling-weight-classes Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT The 2026-27 college wrestling weight classes for NCAA men and women, NAIA and NJCAA, with kilogram conversions, weigh-in timing and the weight-management rules. https://fightercut.com/blog/high-school-wrestling-weight-classes https://fightercut.com/blog/high-school-wrestling-weight-classes Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Every NFHS boys' and girls' wrestling weight class for 2026-27, the 12 and 13-class options, state growth allowances, weigh-in windows and the new 19% rule. https://fightercut.com/blog/how-to-cut-weight-for-wrestling https://fightercut.com/blog/how-to-cut-weight-for-wrestling Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT A wrestling weight cut the way the rules allow it: the 1.5% weekly descent, NFHS and NCAA weigh-ins, what the 1997 deaths changed, and how to plan the season. https://fightercut.com/blog/when-tracking-says-stop-the-cut https://fightercut.com/blog/when-tracking-says-stop-the-cut Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT The documented signals that separate a hard weight cut from a dangerous one, each with its threshold and condition, and why no safe unsupervised figure exists. https://fightercut.com/blog/the-weekly-camp-review https://fightercut.com/blog/the-weekly-camp-review Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT A reasoned order for the weekly fight-camp review, what each measure can and cannot tell a coach, and the honest admission that no study has tested the cadence. https://fightercut.com/blog/how-an-injury-changes-a-weight-cut https://fightercut.com/blog/how-an-injury-changes-a-weight-cut Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Injury raises what the body needs while removing the training that made the deficit. What the literature measured, what it never studied, and who decides. https://fightercut.com/blog/body-composition-tracking-for-fighters https://fightercut.com/blog/body-composition-tracking-for-fighters Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT DXA, BOD POD, calipers and impedance all have an error larger than the change a fighter wants to see — and dehydration moves every one of them the wrong way. https://fightercut.com/blog/food-logging-accuracy-in-fight-camp https://fightercut.com/blog/food-logging-accuracy-in-fight-camp Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Athletes under-report intake by a mean 19% against doubly labelled water. Here is where the error comes from, and why the log is still worth keeping. https://fightercut.com/blog/training-load-monitoring-for-fighters https://fightercut.com/blog/training-load-monitoring-for-fighters Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT RPE times minutes is worth logging. The acute:chronic workload ratio built on top of it is not what you were told. Here is the evidence on both sides. https://fightercut.com/blog/injury-severity-versus-tissue-grade https://fightercut.com/blog/injury-severity-versus-tissue-grade Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT A tissue grade describes the imaging. Severity is days unavailable. They are different axes, and the spread inside one grade swallows the gap between grades. https://fightercut.com/blog/tracking-injuries-in-combat-sports https://fightercut.com/blog/tracking-injuries-in-combat-sports Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT The same judo tournaments report 10.9-109 injuries per 1,000 exposures or 4.2-60, depending only on the definition used. What that means for logging your own. https://fightercut.com/blog/reading-a-bodyweight-trend-in-camp https://fightercut.com/blog/reading-a-bodyweight-trend-in-camp Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Day-to-day noise in body mass is bigger than a day of real weight loss. The measured figures, the arithmetic, and how long a camp trend takes to mean anything. https://fightercut.com/blog/what-to-track-in-fight-camp https://fightercut.com/blog/what-to-track-in-fight-camp Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT The measurement error, the missing detectable-change figures, and the two numbers with evidence behind them — so you stop chasing noise eight weeks out. https://fightercut.com/blog/banned-supplements-and-anti-doping-risk https://fightercut.com/blog/banned-supplements-and-anti-doping-risk Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT How a fighter fails a drug test without cheating: strict liability, supplement contamination, the 2026 Prohibited List, and what certification really covers.