Cutting Weight For MMA, Importance Of Carbs & Fight Nutrition w/ "Fight Dietitian" Jordan Sullivan (SSOF Ep. #15)

Jordan Sullivan, known as "The Fight Dietitian" currently works with many of the top UFC fighters from Australia and New Zealand including Israel Adesanya, Brad Riddell, Kai-Kara France, Dan Hooker, Alex Volkanovski to name a few.  

Timestamps 

0:00 - Jordan's Background 

2:47 - Biggest weight cut mistakes 

6:08 - How a weight cut should run

8:00 - How to measure if you are training capacity or power 

12:43 - How to calculate the start of a weight cut 

17:24 - Why keto doesn't work 

21:12 - Water loading (how it works and how to do it correctly) 

31:06 - What to eat and drink after weigh in 

34:08 - How to use HRV to influence your training 

38:38 - Short duration weigh in strategies 

44:30 - Cutting weight for female fighters: how it differs 

48:14 - Every day nutrition for a fighter  

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