Weight cutting advice and guideline

[b Murphington]

I’m sure this topic has been posted a million times, but everyone’s situation is different. I have not had a fight in over a year. Life just got busy. When I was actively boxing in 2018, I was fighting in the mid 140’s. Making 141 for tournaments was always difficult. When I did the golden globes 2 years ago, I was in the 152 weight class because 141 was too much weight to lose. I did one tournament at 141 and performed very poorly because I had to lose too much.

Well, this past year I got a new job over the summer and started gaining weight. I went from 150 in the beginning of 2019 to currently 160. My coach tells me I’ve gotten stronger. He says he can tell when he holds the pads and people I’ve sparred with tell me the same thing.

I have not asked my coach if he wants me to do the golden gloves or not. I have not had a fight since December of 2018, but he’s always been proud of my performances. The problem is that I’m 160. I’ve never fought at 165 and I feel that the guys would be way too big for me. I would have 2 and a half weeks to lose approximately 8 pounds to make 152. I have been going to the gym more frequently than in the past. I’m currently senior novice. How doable would you say it is to go from 160 now, to 152 by the tail end of the 1st week of March?

[WonderMonkey]

Risky, and not feel gassed or weak, but it really depends on how much extra weight you are carrying. Could you go enough calorie deficit to get there and maintain endurance to make it through a match and be strong? The plan I'd consider is to get up before work and get in your conditioning, then your normal boxing in the evening. Eat clean and see where you are in a week. When is the next opportunity to get a match? Can you use a lost opportunity as fuel to train even harder for that next one?

[b Murphington]

Risky, and not feel gassed or weak, but it really depends on how much extra weight you are carrying. Could you go enough calorie deficit to get there and maintain endurance to make it through a match and be strong? The plan I'd consider is to get up before work and get in your conditioning, then your normal boxing in the evening. Eat clean and see where you are in a week. When is the next opportunity to get a match? Can you use a lost opportunity as fuel to train even harder for that next one?

I haven’t really talked to my coach about competing for awhile. Because there were periods last year, particularly over the summer and fall where I was only going to the gym 1 or 2 times a week. I injured my back pretty bad last year, but it is a lot better now. There was even a period where I didn’t spar from March until August or September. Last year, I’ve probably sparred maybe 15 days total. Couldn’t have been more than 20. Recently, I’ve been sparring every Friday, or every other Friday.

The last time my coach talked to me about competing, he said he wanted me to fight in park district fights so that they don’t count on the books. “Practice” fights I guess. I have 5 fights on the USA Boxing books. Lost all of them, but 2 of them were close split decisions.

I’d have to go off of him. One time there was a guy at the gym who signed up for a tournament and he didn’t tell or ask my coach about it. My coach was pissed off at him because my coach didn’t feel like he was ready to compete in that tournament. He stopped working with him on the pads and pretty much ignored him until that guy left the gym.

[Lucky86]

8 pounds in two weeks is not that much weight to drop if you are disciplined. Simply cut out all pasta rice potatoes and bread. Eat vegetable and fruit and only white meat you will easily make
Weight. Our rule of thumb in the gym was “eat nothing white except meat” I was always a naturally lean guy but I would always drop around 10 lbs by switching diet this way. It’s a little harder to feel full without the starch but just plow down some carrot sticks or for a cheat I find a cup coffee with just a touch of milk helps take the hunger away for at least an hour.

[b Murphington]

8 pounds in two weeks is not that much weight to drop if you are disciplined. Simply cut out all pasta rice potatoes and bread. Eat vegetable and fruit and only white meat you will easily make
Weight. Our rule of thumb in the gym was “eat nothing white except meat” I was always a naturally lean guy but I would always drop around 10 lbs by switching diet this way. It’s a little harder to feel full without the starch but just plow down some carrot sticks or for a cheat I find a cup coffee with just a touch of milk helps take the hunger away for at least an hour.

Essentially a low carb diet, like Keto?

[Eastbound]

Should be doable. I agree with the low calorie/low carb diet. Coffee is a great hunger suppressor. Don't forget, you've got at least 4 or 5 lbs water weight.

[GelfSara]

I’m sure this topic has been posted a million times, but everyone’s situation is different. I have not had a fight in over a year. Life just got busy. When I was actively boxing in 2018, I was fighting in the mid 140’s. Making 141 for tournaments was always difficult. When I did the golden globes 2 years ago, I was in the 152 weight class because 141 was too much weight to lose. I did one tournament at 141 and performed very poorly because I had to lose too much.

Well, this past year I got a new job over the summer and started gaining weight. I went from 150 in the beginning of 2019 to currently 160. My coach tells me I’ve gotten stronger. He says he can tell when he holds the pads and people I’ve sparred with tell me the same thing.

I have not asked my coach if he wants me to do the golden gloves or not. I have not had a fight since December of 2018, but he’s always been proud of my performances. The problem is that I’m 160. I’ve never fought at 165 and I feel that the guys would be way too big for me. I would have 2 and a half weeks to lose approximately 8 pounds to make 152. I have been going to the gym more frequently than in the past. I’m currently senior novice. How doable would you say it is to go from 160 now, to 152 by the tail end of the 1st week of March?

Two questions:

1) What is your bodyfat %, if you know it (or can accurately estimate it)?

2) How long would you have between the weigh-in and the fight?

[GelfSara]

I’m sure this topic has been posted a million times, but everyone’s situation is different. I have not had a fight in over a year. Life just got busy. When I was actively boxing in 2018, I was fighting in the mid 140’s. Making 141 for tournaments was always difficult. When I did the golden globes 2 years ago, I was in the 152 weight class because 141 was too much weight to lose. I did one tournament at 141 and performed very poorly because I had to lose too much.

Well, this past year I got a new job over the summer and started gaining weight. I went from 150 in the beginning of 2019 to currently 160. My coach tells me I’ve gotten stronger. He says he can tell when he holds the pads and people I’ve sparred with tell me the same thing.

I have not asked my coach if he wants me to do the golden gloves or not. I have not had a fight since December of 2018, but he’s always been proud of my performances. The problem is that I’m 160. I’ve never fought at 165 and I feel that the guys would be way too big for me. I would have 2 and a half weeks to lose approximately 8 pounds to make 152. I have been going to the gym more frequently than in the past. I’m currently senior novice. How doable would you say it is to go from 160 now, to 152 by the tail end of the 1st week of March?

Two questions:

1) What is your bodyfat %, if you know it (or can accurately estimate it)?

2) How long would you have between the weigh-in and the fight?

[F l i c k e r]

How doable would you say it is to go from 160 now, to 152 by the tail end of the 1st week of March?

Cabbage soup diet.

You'll feel like hell but you'll make weight.

[Lucky86]

Essentially a low carb diet, like Keto?

In all honesty I don’t know much about different diets. I wasn’t given complicated instructions to lose weight simply cut out grains , potatoes and pasta bread etc. I found I could really eat as much as I wanted and would only have to eat like this for a week or two before the fight . Granted I was a teenager at the time so I probably had a quicker metabolism.
As well I forgot to add check your weight through out the day. 1st thing in the morning try to go to the bathroom as much as possible don’t eat or
Drink anything and then see how much you weight.
Usually I could go to sleep 1-2 lbs over and some how be on weight the morning of and weight in before breakfast.
So you don’t really have to lose 8 lbs it’s probably more like 5.