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Is this biologically the wrong move? The general decline for past their prime fighters like BJ Penn, Marquardt, Belfort, and Hendo is attributed to either injuries or lower testosterone levels (all those guys are either 40 or about to be 40)
Cutting weight, dehydrating yourself, and losing muscle does nothing but lower your overall testosterone levels. Since they can't take TRT, shouldn't they be optimizing their test levels as much as they can naturally? Staying at their weight class or moving up, more emphasis on heavy weight training, eating a lot of protein, etc..
The combination of old injuries, lower test levels, and dehydration has always proven to be terrible and to never work out.
Cutting weight, dehydrating yourself, and losing muscle does nothing but lower your overall testosterone levels. Since they can't take TRT, shouldn't they be optimizing their test levels as much as they can naturally? Staying at their weight class or moving up, more emphasis on heavy weight training, eating a lot of protein, etc..
The combination of old injuries, lower test levels, and dehydration has always proven to be terrible and to never work out.