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Originally Posted by Gambatte Karate  Actually Joe, it's not the same. You see, lifting every day is a semi-perminant thing. It develops the muscles over a long period of time, and they stay around for a long period of time even after you stop lifting. The same could be said for stretching. If you have a stretching machine, you are no better off than one who doesn't. Ask Bill Wallace. I trained with him once, and he said when he was younger, he didn't use them. He said he simply stretched while in his off time because he didn't like to waste time. Also, stretching to become more flexible is also a thing which is semi-perminant. I know a woman who is in excess of 300 lbs...but because of her TKD training before she had thyroid problems, she can still do the splits.
Cutting weight is temporary. You gain it back within a day or two.  |
Okay, so your argument is that since it's temporary it's cheating? So the idea here would be that anything done in a temporary fashion in order to fight "better" is cheating?
So following in that notion, would you say the following things are cheating as well:
- Putting vaseline on your face
- Carb loading
- Warming up
- Drinking water during rounds
- Using hand wraps
All of these things are done right before and sometimes during a fight in order to give slight advantages or to make things easier/better for the fighter and are temporary.