How do fighters prevent high Cortisol?

[PlatinumColbyCovington]

Surely, training multiple times per day and cutting weight on top of knowing there's someone training to take your life on the back of your mind + the fight itself leads to all kinds of cortisol spikes.. how do fighters stay ANABOLIC despite all this?

 

[TerryMCLOOPS]

Lotta buzzwords here dude.

Take a lap.

 

[Washad]

Açai.

 

[Fahcough]

Meditation with the universe energy. Blocks out stress, no fat storage.

 

[BigTruck]

Drink pee pee

 

[felmmando]

Aren't there cortisol suppressors on the market?

 

[Iron Skin]

 

[HAWTRIDDUM]

You dont. Cortisol is a necessary hormone.

 

[thehighking]

They don't just start off training hard twice a day. They've been training for years, 2 workouts a day isn't that stressful for them as their bodies have adapted. Good sleep, avoiding drugs and alcohol and eating healthy foods along with supplements (and in too many cases PEDs) helps their recovery

 

[Naught2Sixty]

Drink pee pee

 

[MysticGOD]

By not being a pussy that is scared of overtraining.

 

[TruthHurts001]

Just lower the dosage.

 

[baba2008]

Cell Tech

 

[mkt]

Meditation with the universe energy. Blocks out stress, no fat storage.

And eating their magical oatmeal/chia-seed/blueberry bowls specially prepared by Michael Dolce. The ultimate anti-inflammatory, vegan scam guaranteed to offset years of bad living and stress.

 

[My name is]

It's a toxin that you clean out. There's many ways to rid yourself of toxins

 

[Protagoras]

PEDS helps their recovery

Corrected for accuracy.

 

[Protagoras]

Unless you are genetically predisposed to large muscle mass, you will not have large muscles and be doing the amount of training they are doing.

Many fighters are very lean, which makes their muscles look larger, but realistically their fat free mass to body weight ratio is probably not too abnormal.

However, as you get up into the higher weight classes (170+) you start to see what is clearly abnormal fat free mass to body weight ratios. There’s a reason why boxing has LHW at 178, because those classes were created at a time when there weren’t a bunch of ergogenic aids to prevent muscle wasting at the high workloads they are performing.

This is Jack Dempsey, one of the greatest HW boxers that ever lived:



That’s what your generic, athletic guy will look like doing that much cardio. Granted, he probably didn’t lift weights, so his muscles might be a bit more round and hypertrophied if he did.

But compare this with GSP:



I think the difference is readily apparent.

 

[Reydereyes]

Unless you are genetically predisposed to large muscle mass, you will not have large muscles and be doing the amount of training they are doing.

Many fighters are very lean, which makes their muscles look larger, but realistically their fat free mass to body weight ratio is probably not too abnormal.

However, as you get up into the higher weight classes (170+) you start to see what is clearly abnormal fat free mass to body weight ratios. There’s a reason why boxing has LHW at 178, because those classes were created at a time when there weren’t a bunch of ergogenic aids to prevent muscle wasting at the high workloads they are performing.

This is Jack Dempsey, one of the greatest HW boxers that ever lived:

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That’s what your generic, athletic guy will look like doing that much cardio. Granted, he probably didn’t lift weights, so his muscles might be a bit more round and hypertrophied if he did.

But compare this with GSP:

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I think the difference is readily apparent.

Shut your fat ass up you have no idea what you are talking about. Most fighters do lift weights and have their nutrition in check mostly to compensate for the high amount of calories they burn while training mma.
Do you really think a body like GSPs is not reachable naturally? Maybe for your Cheeto eating ass it is but not for a gifted athlete. Fuck you

 

[dickcheney]

Meditation with the universe energy. Blocks out stress, no fat storage.

Fabia bless

 

[dickcheney]

Unless you are genetically predisposed to large muscle mass, you will not have large muscles and be doing the amount of training they are doing.

Many fighters are very lean, which makes their muscles look larger, but realistically their fat free mass to body weight ratio is probably not too abnormal.

However, as you get up into the higher weight classes (170+) you start to see what is clearly abnormal fat free mass to body weight ratios. There’s a reason why boxing has LHW at 178, because those classes were created at a time when there weren’t a bunch of ergogenic aids to prevent muscle wasting at the high workloads they are performing.

This is Jack Dempsey, one of the greatest HW boxers that ever lived:

View attachment 733793

That’s what your generic, athletic guy will look like doing that much cardio. Granted, he probably didn’t lift weights, so his muscles might be a bit more round and hypertrophied if he did.

But compare this with GSP:

View attachment 733795

I think the difference is readily apparent.

They both have the chuck liddell belly