TFN Presents: Making Weight

Book excerpt: Hello, and welcome to your personal nutrition guide for making weight! This e-book seeks to provide athletes of all levels with a basic understanding of nutrition and how a dietary program based on your physiology--and your fitness goals--can enhance how your body responds during training, how it performs amid competition, and how it recovers after a fight. The first chapter is an overview of fight camp and how to fuel appropriately for your training sessions, but also how to manage food intake in order to slowly decrease your body weight. In the second chapter you will become familiar with nutrition tactics used by health professionals to acutely, and safely, manipulate weight loss the week prior to weigh-ins. The last two chapters provide you with information on how to rehydrate and recover properly from weigh-ins and optimize energy levels for maximal performance for your fight! All the information included in this e-book is merely a guideline, and it should be noted that individual needs and circumstances can affect the nutrition tactics discussed in this book. As a registered sports dietitian, The Fight Nutritionist performs more detailed, in-depth analysis, such as body composition tracking, evaluation of total body water and glycogen stores, sweat rates, consistent diet monitoring, re-calculation of nutrient and supplement needs, and athlete response to weight cutting and rehydration protocols. The Fight Nutritionist does utilize the guidelines included in this book, and her athletes have enjoyed great success when following them. All the information included in this book is consistent with current, evidence-based research.