In an interview with , Alexander Ladygin, who is tasked with reducing the weight of a Russian MMA fighter Marifa Pirayeva spoke about the difficulties that an athlete had to face, who lost 23 kg in 7 weeks of training camp.
– We started working with a mark of 93 kg. He’s a pretty lean guy: tests showed us 10-12% fat already at 87kg. With a weight of 80 kg, the percentage of fat was even less and we had to burn muscle mass in work.
Ideally, at around 80 kg, we should stop and take a two week break from feeding. Let him gain 2.5-3 kg, but he would rest, eat carbohydrates and recover psychologically.
As a result, we didn’t sleep for two nights: before the weigh-in and after the weigh-in. Apparently the body sounded the alarm. We tried to sleep, it didn’t work. Marif had slept 5-6 hours the night before the fight and was not in very good shape anymore. Although we performed all the restore manipulations, we did everything correctly. Unfortunately, it was the second weight race in three months and the body reacted that way,” Ladygin told .
Marif Piraev lost his lightweight title fight to Nariman Abbasov on June 10, refusing to continue the fight after the second round.
Source : MatchTV
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