Make weight. Keep your power.

Eating around two sessions a day and a job

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.

October 9, 2026 · 23 min read

Daily hydration in fight camp

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.

October 8, 2026 · 23 min read

What a long deficit costs beyond calories

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.

October 7, 2026 · 21 min read

The dietary fat floor, and what is actually underneath it

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.

October 6, 2026 · 22 min read

Carbohydrate periodisation for fighters

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.

October 5, 2026 · 23 min read

Telling your coach you are hurt

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.

October 4, 2026 · 23 min read

Painkillers in fight camp

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.

October 3, 2026 · 23 min read

How an MMA weigh-in works

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.

October 2, 2026 · 21 min read

Overuse injuries in fight camp

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.

October 2, 2026 · 23 min read

Beta-alanine for fighters

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.

October 1, 2026 · 21 min read

How a wrestling weigh-in works

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.

October 1, 2026 · 19 min read

Knee injuries in grappling and the leg-lock era

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.

October 1, 2026 · 23 min read

Do clothes count at a weigh-in?

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.

September 30, 2026 · 21 min read

Hand and wrist injuries in striking

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.

September 30, 2026 · 23 min read

How long should a fight camp be?

No commission, promotion or study sets a proven fight-camp length. Here is what periodization science and real training-load data actually show.

September 29, 2026 · 21 min read

Returning to training after a knockout

A commission suspension is an administrative minimum, not a medical clearance. What New York, California, Virginia and Nevada actually say, verified at source.

September 29, 2026 · 22 min read

What to eat when cutting weight

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.

September 29, 2026 · 21 min read