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Originally Posted by TRIANGLEFROMGAURD  No they are all temporary things. If I could gain muscle mass and then never do anything again to keep it then it would be permanent but, I have to continue to lift diet and so on to keep my gains. Same with stretching, stop stretching for a year and then tell me if you can still do the splits. |
As I said, they are
semi-perminant Basicly, it takes a LONG time to gain, and a long time to loose them. If you lift for over a year and gain the benifits from lifting and then stop cold turkey, you will still have the benifits of the lifting for at least 6 months afterward. If you cut back on lifting a bit, you still keep the benifits. Semi-perminant. Once you achieve it, it doesn't take much to keep it.
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Originally Posted by TRIANGLEFROMGAURD To compete at a high level you need your body to perform at a high level. Dumping the excess only makes sense, you also get the benefits from fasting which are awesome. To compete in a light contact tournament you don't need to cut weight because no one is going to wrestle you or try to knock you out. To compete in either wrestling grappling or MMA you need to be at your physical best. |
And I don't think that shocking your body up to and including the night before the fight is the best thing to do to make your body perform at it's physical best.
I would also like to point out that I have 2 yrs of boxing exp, and never once cut weight then either. I would say that people were hitting pretty hard and trying to knock me out then.
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Originally Posted by TRIANGLEFROMGAURD No it totally sucks but, it is required at certain levels of competition. |
I didn't know you were required to do it. I thought it was voluntary...
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Originally Posted by TRIANGLEFROMGAURD P*ssy  |
Yeah, I know....I like it a lot too.
Anyway, I have expressed my OPINIONS here, and will not continue on an arguement about it. Afterall, it doesn't matter what I think about it. Only what the individual fighter thinks about it.