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Effects of Different Rapid Weight Loss Strategies and Percentages on Performance-Related Parameters in Combat Sports

An Updated Systematic Review

Luis Manuel Martínez-Aranda, Manuel Sanz-Matesanz, Guillermo Orozco-Durán, Francisco Tomás González-Fernández, Lorena Rodríguez-García, Amelia Guadalupe-Grau. 2023. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Read the full textDOI 10.3390/ijerph20065158PubMed 36982067

The medical question

How do preparation and weight-management practices affect a fighter’s health?

This evidence helps define research questions about the medical consequences of preparation, dehydration and recovery. It connects the demands of making weight with the Fight Medicine Research Institute’s wider responsibility for a fighter’s health.

Summary

Researchers reviewed rapid weight-loss strategies and subsequent measurements of performance, fatigue, mood and physiological responses in combat athletes.

What the abstract reports

  • 16 studies with 184 athletes were included.
  • Six studies found no effect on performance from losing about 5% of body weight. Ten reported negative effects on performance, fatigue, mood or physiological measures.

Publication status and notices

Published in a peer-reviewed journal. Systematic review in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. PubMed publication type: Journal Article; Systematic Review.

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15 March 2023
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