Weight cutting in combat sports

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Weight cutting is a very common practice in contact sports. It is the practice of rapidly losing weight to fit in a certain weight category before a fight. What does science have to say about this? Is there a safe way to do it? What does the research show? Dimitrios Balomenos and Arthur Vignier from the 2018 Class have an interesting argument about this in this months' AISTS podcast. Listen and join the conversation in the comments.

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