Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio, the podcast that brings you discussions all about nutrition science.

This is episode 487 of the podcast.

My name is Danny Lennon.

You are very welcome to the show.

This episode is a sports nutrition-oriented podcast,

and in particular we're going to be focusing in on the area of combat sports nutrition,

and in particular, the aspect of helping athletes to make weight

for competition. Now this will also be applicable to many other sports outside of combat sports

that have a weight class element where athletes have to weigh in and reach a certain weight limit

before competition. However, our focus is going to be on

combat sports because there are some specifics related to that. So whilst there is going to be a lot of

little details here that will be useful to you, listeners who are very familiar with combat sports

nutrition, maybe you are a nutritionist or dietitian working in that area already, maybe you're a combat sports athlete, there's going to be a lot of direct value to you.

But I think there's also going to be a lot here for those you who are sports nutritionists

or dietitians more broadly who may come across athletes who are making weight,

or at some point in the future you may encounter in your practice. And of course,

if you're simply listening on because you find this an interesting area, because it really is

quite unique and fascinating, then we're going to start with some explanations that should make

this as understandable to a wide audience as possible before we get into some more specifics. And so we're

going to at least start trying to work out, well, what is this concept of weight cutting? What do we actually

mean when we're talking about in this in the context of making weight for competition? What is it to make

weight for competition? And of course, that is simply referring to this process of certain sports have weight classes.

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