Nutrionists: Are they good for boxing?

[Dirt E Gomez]

They aren't good for boxers period, that is why they are seldom used in the sport of boxing. It doesn't take a lot of money to pay a nutritionist. They just don't benefit boxers.

Explain to me how they aren't. How is eating properly to intake the best possible types of food into your system bad for you? Explain that to me.

[Dirt E Gomez]

Nope, that's not my argument at all.

The nutritionist's job isn't making your physique. They do what you want them to do. You think a fighter spends too much time sculpting their physique? Then that's the fighter's fault, not the nutritionist they hire to help them do so.

It's not like this is some new-fangled-new-age pseudo-science... it's ****ing facts. This is what our body likes. Give it to it. Before nutritionists fighters still ate less and "ate healthy" before fights while training because despite not having a nutritionist they still understood what types of foods are better for their body.

By saying nutritionists can't help is basically saying you don't believe a proper diet matters at all.

[Boofdatruth]

I'm not sure how me understanding how a diet effects the body means I'm a nutritionist or a kid. You can not expect your diet to do all of the work for you. However, if you are smart and use the diet properly w/ your training regime then it can only help you. There is no downside to eating properly... except the taste at times.

There is a down side to it when it comes to boxers. Boxers are getting hit. Muscles are being injured. They bleed and heal quickly. youIn order to plentify your muscles, you have to build muscles. When a fighter has to lose weight, and gain muscles, he is losing the most important thing of all. Energy. The fact that you mention the taste of food is enough for me to know right there that they can't benefit. Before a fight, I had to take a big bite of my uncles Big Mac because the food the nutritionist had me eating didn't benefit my body. Boxers don't ebven like using nutritionists. I was surprised Miranda had one. Sure you can make weight, look good, but you won't feel good because it takes time for your body to get used to your nutritionist. 6-8 weeks is too short a time to have a nutritionist before a fight.

[Boofdatruth]

Explain to me how they aren't. How is eating properly to intake the best possible types of food into your system bad for you? Explain that to me.

It takes more than 8 weeks for the body to get used to so-called eating right, adding muscles, losing weight etc. Over the long term a nutritionist can benefit someone, not a boxer. boxers only have 6-8 weeks to train for a fight.

[Pantera2000]

If he was eating rice and beans or what ever like you said..lol rice and beans...before every fight, they should've just lessened his portions that'a all. You can't eat greenery, greenery and more greenery and a bit of meat, **** that out, and do this for days on in leading to making weight and the fight. Rice is a good carbs food. Track stars eat potatoes before they run. I'm talking a cooked or raw potato. Boxers shouldn't do that, but carbs are important. They are hard to get off, but the are a good source or energy. Heck ,rice and beans gives you carbs and protein. You wonder why mexicans, Africans, and third world boxers never run out of energy. If that sounds stereotypical, i'm sorry. I love my red beans and rice, and i'm a black man. I'm 38, and I can still run all over the court and dunk. lol Pant, ask him how he truly felt before the fight. I bet Pant felt tired when he got to the ring, I bet he felt like he had no confidence he could hurt AA. I bet he felt like **** if he kept it real. The same thing happened to me in a fight. I'm willing to bet the house he felt terrible before and after the fight.

Edison said he felt great in the locker room and very strong in the first two rounds. But he did say he started feeling much less powerful in Round 3. He also said that he never felt such strength when getting hit. Not even Pavlik hurt him with any 'single' punches. But Abraham first time he really connected, Miranda said it was the hardest he had every felt (much much harder than when he got hit in their first fight). I dont know how this could be related to his diet. But funny thing is Quintana says the same thing about his 2nd fight will Williams. Odd...

[Nacho_Analstain]

How can a nutritionist not be good for a boxer? THEY GIVE THEM THE RIGHT NUTRITION ACCORDING TO THEIR NEEDS.

[Dirt E Gomez]

There is a down side to it when it comes to boxers. Boxers are getting hit. Muscles are being injured. They bleed and heal quickly. youIn order to plentify your muscles, you have to build muscles. When a fighter has to lose weight, and gain muscles, he is losing the most important thing of all. Energy. The fact that you mention the taste of food is enough for me to know right there that they can't benefit. Before a fight, I had to take a big bite of my uncles Big Mac because the food the nutritionist had me eating didn't benefit my body. Boxers don't ebven like using nutritionists. I was surprised Miranda had one. Sure you can make weight, look good, but you won't feel good because it takes time for your body to get used to your nutritionist. 6-8 weeks is too short a time to have a nutritionist before a fight.

That is an absolute cluster **** of a paragraph.

So, eating healthy means your body loses its ability to retain muscles?
So, the fighter forcing himself to lose a lot of weight before a fight is the nutritionist's fault?
So, the fact that some foods don't taste good to me is evidence that a proper diet doesn't help people?
So, because your dumbass likes to eat Big Macs before a fight (I assume this is sarcasm since you post ****** ****, but usually not this ******) that means your uncle is some diet guru?

[Guest]

The nutritionist's job isn't making your physique. They do what you want them to do. You think a fighter spends too much time sculpting their physique? Then that's the fighter's fault, not the nutritionist they hire to help them do so.

It's not like this is some new-fangled-new-age pseudo-science... it's ****ing facts. This is what our body likes. Give it to it. Before nutritionists fighters still ate less and "ate healthy" before fights while training because despite not having a nutritionist they still understood what types of foods are better for their body.

By saying nutritionists can't help is basically saying you don't believe a proper diet matters at all.

A proper diet does matter. I wouldn't argue that. Not at all. I made a comment about boxer's physiques and maybe it was construed as the work of a nutritionist but I didn't mean that at all in my previous posts.
I just think the nutrionist knows certain facts about diets and sports in general and may not know the intricacies of what makes a boxer tick.
So he switches a boxer's diet, and the boxer undergoes physical and mental changes that he's not accustomed to, and thus bad for him no matter how good he feels or how healthy he's told he is.
I've seen it time and again. But you're right in not blaming the nutrionist in the Tarver, Jones, Toney, Miranda, and Vargas fights where they lost and had happened to hire a nutritonist.

[Dirt E Gomez]

It takes more than 8 weeks for the body to get used to so-called eating right, adding muscles, losing weight etc. Over the long term a nutritionist can benefit someone, not a boxer. boxers only have 6-8 weeks to train for a fight.

I can't believe what I'm reading.

You clearly never took a biology course in what little schooling you must've had. Food is absorbed into the stomach and intestines within a few hours of ingestion. That means those nutrients are being dispersed into your body that quickly.

[GTL]

Im sorry.. I hate to see Dirt E all alone..

Nutritionists have their place..
Cotto hired a nutritionist.. Worked well so far..

Alot of fighters hire a nutritionist because they have trouble making weight. They still drain themselves to get there..

Nutrition, and staying active is very very important..

Nutrition provides faster recovery, better health, more energy, faster metabolism and the list goes on.. Put good things into your body and good things will happen..

Nutrition is an essential part of boxing.. Thats my 2 cents