Inför viktnedgången till flugvikt för Cody Garbrandt berättar hans dietist att det kommer att bli en mer hälsosam viktnedgång den här gången.
Cody Garbrandt siktar på hälsosammare viktnedgång
Efter att endast ha tagit hem en vinst bland sina senaste fem matcher så kommer den tidigare UFC-mästaren i bantamvikt, Cody Garbrandt (12-4), att kliva ned till flugvikt för sin nästa match. Detta kommer dock att ske på ett säkrare sätt än tidigare enligt Garbrandts nya dietist, Dr. Matteo Capodaglio.
I det tidiga stadiet just nu
I en intervju med MMA Junkie berättade Capodaglio att Garbrandt nu är i det tidiga stadiet av sin viktnedgång inför den kommande matchen mot Kai Kara-France (22-9).
There are all the premises, there are all the right numbers to do well. And we are still in a phase where, yeah, he started to drop weight for sure. It’s our first camp together. He never really worked with a nutritionist before, so we’re also working on creating a plan that is performance-based. So I’m teaching him how to eat in the sense that you want to periodize the carbohydrate intake in certain moments of the day, in certain moments of the week. There are days when you want to stimulate adaptation, so you’re going to eat a little bit less and you’re going to create physiological levels of stress to your body so you can react and become better. We say in science physiological stress induces adaptation. so we’re working on that. Some days he trains low and some other days he recharges and he performs – for example, when he has his sparring. He’s a big bicycle fan, so he rides the bike a lot and that is a big help when it comes to a drop of a weight class.
Behöver en mer planerad diet
Gällande dieten så menar Capodaglio att Garbrandt behöver ha en mer planerad diet än när han gick ned i vikt för bantamvikt men att han fortfarande får i sig all näring han behöver.
He’s not a person that struggled to make 135 and is now going to try and do something impossible to make 125. To make 135, he was eating healthy, but there wasn’t a specific rationale behind it. Now we’re putting more order, and that already gives us some room for improvement and then we have a lot of time for this drop. He will be fueling very well until fight week, so don’t think about a 1500-kilocalorie diet. That’s not going to happen.
En säkrare viktnedgång
Capodaglio menar även att han kommer att ha koll på Garbrandts vattennivåer så att han kan klara vikten på ett sätt så att han fortfarande återhämtar sig i tid till match efter invägningarna.
He’s not going to aggressively dehydrate to make the weight. So by the time he’s going to fight, so in 30, sometimes 36 hours, he’s going to be fully hydrated. I will test his hydration. I test his urine density, and I’m pretty confident with my protocols they can fully hydrate and Cody is going to be fully rehydrated. I believe you’re really going to see a new Cody Garbrandt in the cage, and I’m not sugarcoating a reality, but I really see some new motivation. He sees his career, he sees his path in a different way, and I think that will translate to the cage when he fights in December.
Garbrandts nästa match äger rum mot Kara-France och äger rum den 11:e december på en ännu ospecificerad plats.
