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Ben Crighton, who is a PhD sports scientist in Mixed Martial Arts with a specialism in weight cutting.
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What were your thoughts on the fight from a sports science perspective? McGregor moved up and fought nearly 25lbs heavier than the Aldo fight – how did it affect his performance?
Obviously he put on a fair bit of size on to move up from featherweight to welterweight. He fought at 168lbs.
You could see with him on fight night, he wasn’t necessarily as lean as he has been in previous fights – simply because he had no weight to cut.
He was a little bit heavier than he was probably used to being. When some guys pack on muscle mass they tend to have a little bit of a problem with energy expenditure and, as you saw in the fight, he tended to gas out a little bit quicker than he would normally.
It’s difficult to speculate, because that could be down to the fact he’s put size on. He’s packed on more muscle and obviously the more muscle you have, the more oxygen that muscle needs and the more glycogen that muscle needs.
It just could just be because at the time, like he said, he was loading up all those punches.
You see it quite often in the UFC. You see these guys who are fast-twitch muscle fibre fighters or explosive power based fighters like Tyrone Woodley, for example. It’s just not really possible for those guys to explode with 100% power all the time with every strike.
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Read more at: http://www.joe.co.uk/fitness-health...conor-mcgregor-lost-the-nate-diaz-fight/48175
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What were your thoughts on the fight from a sports science perspective? McGregor moved up and fought nearly 25lbs heavier than the Aldo fight – how did it affect his performance?
Obviously he put on a fair bit of size on to move up from featherweight to welterweight. He fought at 168lbs.
You could see with him on fight night, he wasn’t necessarily as lean as he has been in previous fights – simply because he had no weight to cut.
He was a little bit heavier than he was probably used to being. When some guys pack on muscle mass they tend to have a little bit of a problem with energy expenditure and, as you saw in the fight, he tended to gas out a little bit quicker than he would normally.
It’s difficult to speculate, because that could be down to the fact he’s put size on. He’s packed on more muscle and obviously the more muscle you have, the more oxygen that muscle needs and the more glycogen that muscle needs.
It just could just be because at the time, like he said, he was loading up all those punches.
You see it quite often in the UFC. You see these guys who are fast-twitch muscle fibre fighters or explosive power based fighters like Tyrone Woodley, for example. It’s just not really possible for those guys to explode with 100% power all the time with every strike.
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Read more at: http://www.joe.co.uk/fitness-health...conor-mcgregor-lost-the-nate-diaz-fight/48175
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