Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio.

I am your host, Danny Lennon, head of Performance Nutrition here at Sigma Nutrition and Performance.

This is episode 141, and it's again another solo episode in which I take a specific topic

and then trying to delve into either some of the

evidence base around that, some issues with practical application, and then maybe what I feel

we can confidently conclude on that subject. Now, for me, helping competitive athletes make

weight in an effective and scientific manner is my main principal area of practice right now with my own coaching clients.

So like currently I'd say my personal roster of clients is probably about 90% made up of such athletes.

So professional MMA fighters, boxers, and then also on the other side you have like power lifters,

weightlifters, other people in weight class-based sports too. But a significant degree of

them would be combat sport athletes. And so for today's episode, I wanted to get into some of the

considerations for performance, nutrition and weight cutting with fighters specifically,

both in terms of nutrition to support training and then to allow them to make weight and

refuel appropriately. So what I'm going to get into is really in relation to competitive

fighters. So maybe training five to six days a week typically, generally with double

sessions on a lot of those days. And then with in regards to the way in generally have 24 hours or

more between the way in time and their fight. So just bear in mind that piece of context for

anything else I say during the course of this podcast or anything I bring up.

It's with that kind of context in mind of that type of person that we're dealing with.

And so it's not going to apply to everyone in other situations outside of those.

Now, there's probably a lot of routes we could go down to talk about performance nutrition

for MMA or boxing, but for today, I just wanted to highlight six mistakes that I find

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