Sure you can lose 4 lbs easily like that. But when you have already been keeping your weight down and been cutting weeks prior it is a different story. In short 4 lbs can be allot to lose if you already depleted your body leading up to that point.
RE: The bolded bits. This is probably the most common misconception about weight cutting among those that have never done it or dont know what it is. Weight cutting doesn't happen over a few weeks. Your getting confused between cutting and dieting. Two TOTALLY different things, that have nearly no effect on each other.
In its simplest form dieting is getting rid of fat from the body. Cutting is temporarily getting rid of water. Dieting is done over a few weeks, cutting is done over a few hours. You said ''cutting for weeks prior''. Anybody that actually knows anything about cutting weight knows you cant do it for weeks.
And even after dieting for weeks, yes it would be relatively easy to lose 4lbs because its just water weight. I know. I've done it myself and seen it done many times. Its when you try to go beyond that, that it gets difficult. Personally, i dropped the first 4 or 5 pounds pretty easily. But once i started slowing down every ounce was a nightmare.
Main point being, you are mixing up dieting with cutting.
Reluctantly sent another.
Appreciate it, but to be honest, no less vague than the first one.
Nice, at least you got in there and gave it a shot.
Not arrogant at all. At least it wasn't meant to be.
When you say something like:
''Lets not pretend I'm not right''
Thats extremely arrogant.
If you say so. I think it is very obvious you got upset .. frustrated or what ever you want to call in in our debate. You said you weren't and only you truly know so lets move on regardless.
Dont know how you got to conclusion that I was upset and/or frusrated from thousands of miles away, based entirely on text on a screen!? Like I said, not the type of person that allows myself to be annoyed by an opinion on the Internet.
I didn't want to quote everything but I made similar cuts but at different weights. And in the past also helped others cut as well. By the sounds of it not as often as you have. I am surprised a person with your experience believes wrestlers cut 3/4 lbs on weigh in day while at the same time making the cut sound like a walk in the park. There are days / weeks of cutting leading up to that point.
Again, here you're mixing up cutting and dieting. Its the dieting that happens for the weeks before. Dieting, done correctly should put zero strain on the body and actually make the body stronger and the cut easier. Cutting only happens in the hours prior to the weigh in. Usually no more than 24 hours at a stretch. Cutting weight depletes the body horribly by comparison to dieting.
It would not be possible for someone to go through a full cut prior to a same day weigh in as they just would not have the time necessary to recover prior to competing. 3-4 pounds, maybe 5 at a push, would be the limit of what could be done on the morning of a same day weigh in. And while it is not easy on its own,
by comparison to a full cut it is
relatively easy. For the record this is me saying that it (3-4lbs) is not easy but is a hell of a lot easier than a full weight cut.
