Hello and welcome. You are listening to episode 235 of Sigma Nutrition Radio. My name is Danny Lennon and you are very

welcome. A couple of things to make you aware of before we get into the meat and potatoes of today's

episode. On to today's particular episode and it's going to be another research breakdown episode from

us. However, this is going to be an individual episode from one of the coaches here at

Sigma Nutrition, Kirano Regan, who has recently became more formally part of the team here,

coaching some of our combat sport athletes. And so this is going to be an episode where we take a

specific look at a recent research paper that was published this year by Silvera, Cosvig and

colleagues titled Weight Regain, but Not Weight Loss, is related to competitive success

in real life mixed martial arts competition.

And so this paper is taking a look at some of the weight cutting strategies, but also the weight

regain phase between a way in and a competition and a fight. And so a few things that I'll bring

you up to speed on before we actually get into

Kiran's breakdown of this paper.

For those you unfamiliar or haven't heard Kiran on the podcast before, which he has been.

You can go and search for those previous episodes.

Kieran, like I said, is now coaching here some of our combat sport athletes specifically

on their nutrition and fight preparations.

He has a bachelor's degree in sports and exercise science from the University of Limerick.

He currently works as a strength and conditioning coach in a physical location, as well as the work he's doing online with us here.

And he has the kind of unique

insight of having experience as a fighter himself he's competed at a national level for many years

in amateur boxing as well as having competed in kickboxing k1 brazilian jiu j etc. And so has an extensive interest and experience in combat

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