Danny allen

DM me “FUEL” if you’ve got a competition coming up and want to make weight without sacrificing your performance.

Everyone celebrates making weight.

Very few people talk about what happens next.

The truth is, I’ve seen more fighters ruin their performance after weigh-ins than during the weight cut itself.

They’ve done the hard part…

Then they try to “reward” themselves with whatever they fancy.

A massive takeaway.

A load of sweets.

Random snacks.

Or they just drink loads of water and think that’s enough.

It isn’t.

The next 24 hours are all about recovering what you’ve lost.

Rehydrating properly.

Replacing electrolytes.

Refilling muscle glycogen with carbohydrates.

Getting enough protein.

And spacing your meals out so your body can actually absorb what you’re giving it.

The goal isn’t just to make the number on the scales.

The goal is to step into the cage, on the mats or into the ring feeling explosive, energised and ready to perform.

That’s the difference between making weight…

and making weight properly.

If you’re cutting weight for your next competition and want a plan that’s built around performance, not just the scales, send me FUEL and I’ll show you how we do it.

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DM me CUT if you’ve got a competition coming up and want to make weight without sacrificing your performance 👇

This is still one of my favourite transformations.

Getting Owen Jones to 66kg for Polaris wasn’t about starving him.

It wasn’t about spending hours in a sweat suit.

And it definitely wasn’t about guessing.

Everything was planned.

Bodyweight was managed weeks in advance.

Training was fuelled properly.

Protein stayed high to help preserve muscle.

Carbohydrates were adjusted strategically around training so he could still perform.

Then, in the final stages, we used a controlled water cut to get him on the scales safely.

The biggest mistake I see is athletes leaving too much weight to lose in the last week.

That’s when the panic starts.

Calories get slashed.

Training quality drops.

Recovery falls apart.

And by the time they make weight…

they’ve already lost half their performance.

Making weight is only half the job.

The real goal is stepping on the mats feeling explosive, strong and ready to compete.

That’s exactly what Owen did.

Weight cuts shouldn’t be about suffering.

They should be about planning.

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COMMENT “FUEL” and I’ll show you how fighters should actually eat in fight week.

Conor McGregor is not going into fight week living off chicken salad and suffering for Instagram.

His nutrition has been built around quality protein sources like chicken, fish, salmon, beef and eggs, with proper complex carbs kept in to fuel the sessions that still matter.

That is the bit most fighters get wrong.

They start cutting carbs on Monday because they think rice is what is making them heavy… then by Wednesday they are flat, tired, snappy, sleeping badly and their final hard sessions are awful.

Fight week is not the time to “eat clean” and starve yourself.

It is the time to keep performance high, recover from the work you have done, manage food volume intelligently and make weight without turning yourself into a shell of the fighter you were in camp.

You do not win a fight because you suffered the most making weight.

You win because you make weight and still have fuel in the tank when the cage door shuts.

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