Russian Victoria Dudakova spoke to about the weight loss process ahead of his second UFC fight.
Previously, the minimum weight representative was unable to participate in her last fight due to a nutritional problem and was forced to withdraw from the tournament on March 30 this year in Las Vegas. Dudakova’s next fight was announced at the UFC in Abu Dhabi on August 3, the athlete will meet with American Sam Hughes.
— Last time you got food poisoning during a delivery to the UFC because you were in the United States. How was it in the Emirates?
— At the final stage of preparation, we lived in an apartment in Dubai. I cooked it myself. Hasanali (Gasanaliev, Dudakova’s coach – approx. “”) cooks deliciously, but he is good at the training camp. As for losing weight, he eats relatively fatty foods. Several times we went to a cafe where Russian girls worked and were able to calmly explain what I needed, for example, just spaghetti with chicken, without sauces. I do not count calories, I do not have scales at home to weigh my food. I do everything by eye. Maybe when I have a hard time losing weight, this will come in handy.
We are currently working with a nutritionist. Shamil Suleymanov is a wonderful person, I love him. I receive complete instructions from him on what to eat that day. But it is important that he always takes into account my wishes, because there are many products that I do not like. And there are nutritionists who, despite this, force you to eat. And Shamil writes me a menu for a day or a few days, but then every day he sends me a menu, because we cut something, add something, and most importantly, for example, for breakfast, he has several options for what I can eat . If I do not like something, I immediately write to him, he replaces it.
Shamil says directly: “You should enjoy the food. You have a difficult camp, and in addition you will have a difficult weight loss. And if you have eaten and you have not enjoyed it, it is useless. You will become more aggressive, more angry.”
— Hasanali said it was one of the biggest weight cuts of your career.
— Three days before the weigh-in, I weighed 55.5 kg (Dudakov’s category is 52.1 kg — about “”). Hasanali is just an alarmist, we need to be calmer about this. It’s just that we first came to Spain to get treatment, train a little in grappling, learn something new, and I liked everything so much in terms of food that two extra kilos stuck to me in the first week and a half. . Hasanali was very worried, and I understood that as soon as I go on a diet and start training hard, my 3-4 kilos will easily disappear. And then our fitness trainer told me that before I start lifting, I need to weigh 60 kilos. If I don’t weigh 60 kg and start lifting, then the weight will be difficult. We went on a diet eight weeks before the tournament, and six weeks before the fight I was already at my usual weight. Hasanali just has moments when he wants a champion to appear in one day. He is a maximalist and you need to be calmer about it. And don’t listen to anyone.
— But with the maximalist Hasanali, you are 8-0 in MMA.
“Yes, he is both the greatest blessing and the greatest misfortune,” Dudakova told .
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