Citations & Recommended Reading
These sources are used across Can I Eat That? for weight-cut planning, hydration, rehydration, energy balance, and combat sports nutrition context.
- ACSM guidance for safer weight-category sports
American College of Sports Medicine
- Expert Consensus Statement on Weight Loss in Weight-Category Sports
PubMed / Current Sports Medicine Reports
- Nutrition and weight cut strategies for mixed martial arts and other combat sports
International Society of Sports Nutrition position stand, PMC
- Effects of rapid weight loss strategies and percentages on performance
Systematic review, PMC
- Validity of hydration indices during weight cutting and official weigh-in
PubMed Central
- Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts
Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports
- Men's Wrestling Rules and Weight Management Program
NCAA
- IBJJF weigh-in procedures
International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation
- IBJJF rule book and rules updates
International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation
- USA Boxing Rule Book
USA Boxing
- Making Weight: The Ultimate Science-Based Guide to Cutting Weight for Combat Sports
Jordan Sullivan and Danny Lennon, Sigma Nutrition Publishing
- Rapid Weight Loss and Performance
PubMed
- Hydration Strategies in Combat Sports
MDPI Applied Sciences
- Body Composition and Weight-Cutting in MMA
PubMed
- Water Loading and Acute Dehydration Methods
PubMed
- Health Implications of Rapid Weight Cycling
PMC
- Combat Sports Hydration
BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Hormonal Regulation in Energy Balance
Endocrine Reviews
- Fight Science: Rehydration
Instagram
- Fight Science: Sodium Loading
Instagram
- Nutrition Periodization for Combat Athletes
Instagram
- Fight Week Prep Example
Instagram
- Recovery Nutrition for Fighters
Instagram
- Post-Weigh-In Recovery
Instagram