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My topic is the dangers of weight cutting
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for professional fighters or wrestlers or boxers.
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Bye.
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Um, weight cutting is when you lose your walking weight,
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like what you just normally weigh
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to get
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paired up with like a lighter weight class
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so that you can find lighter buns.
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Uh,
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you typically start your weight cut 5 to 7
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days before you actually weigh in for the fight.
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And most of the weight that you lose is just water weight.
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A lot of the fighters use weight cutting to get an advantage on their opponent
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since they walk around heavier,
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they are normally stronger than people at the weight that they're dropping to.
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So that gives them an advantage when fighting
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pros to weight cutting is mostly
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just with how they're gonna be paired up with small opponents. Like I just said,
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they're gonna have the strength and size advantage.
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But when it comes to cons,
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the list goes on
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first, they can put you through a lot of mental torture.
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People don't understand that when you don't have food,
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it can change the chemicals in your brain like to make you happy
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and it just messes with a bunch of your emotions.
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Uh It can muddy your mind where it can get fighters to get confused a whole lot
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and it can mess with their concentration on fighting.
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Uh It also causes like I said, a lot of mood changes such as depression rage
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and then also there's fatigue and then the feeling of isolation.
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But that's just the mental aspect
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when it comes to the physical part of how it causes you, of how it affects you.
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Uh It causes severe dehydration
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which can cause many long-term health issues.
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It also puts a lot of strain on your cardio
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cardiovascular system and your kidneys.
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Um There have been
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a few people
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that have died from
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trying to cut weight
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to like an extreme level
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and that's where I think that they should draw a line.
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What I think should happen is that
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main, there's not that many rules when it comes to weight cutting,
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especially for like the U F C
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and M MA fights
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because there's not really like many like their
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rules for like even steroids aren't very strict,
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their rules just aren't very strict
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and
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it needs to
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get stricter.
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Um
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in conclusion,
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weight cutting is dangerous
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and there needs to be restrictions on how extreme the fighters can cut weight.
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Like
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I don't think that they should be able to cut at least a 15 or more pounds because
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that's just not healthy for the human body. And
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the advantage when they add the weight
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will be bad
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because like, when they get their weight back,
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they're gonna be a lot stronger than the opponent
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that just, normally maybe walks around at that weight.
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And another rule that I think that they should have
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is
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having the weighing of the day of
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so that it's more like,
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so like
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they can't eat all the food to get their energy back or anything like that.
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Like, they just need to fight at the weight
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that they walk around at or close to what they walk around at.
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That's my conclusion.