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Nutrition specialist 👻 Performance nutrition coaching for combat athletes.

Helping grapplers, fighters and serious hobbyists fuel training, manage weight, recover better and perform when it matters.

03/11/2026

Nearly 200 matches without losing. Then it all started going wrong. Gabi Pessanha's story.

Tayane ended the run in 2025. A few months later she got tapped for the first time at black belt. She went back to Worlds this year, took double gold and beat Tayane 9-0.

Saturday she goes for her 4th Crown out of 4. Is anyone beating her?

Footage: IBJJF / FloGrappling

03/11/2026

4 Worlds finals. 4 silvers. Then this year happened. Andy Murasaki's story.

2022, 2023, 2024, 2025. Every single year he got to the Worlds final and came home with silver. Most people would crack. Andy switched teams, went to the 2026 Brasileiro and won it with 4 subs in 4 matches.

Saturday he goes for his 3rd Crown in a row. Can anyone stop him?

Footage: IBJJF / FloGrappling

03/11/2026

Over 35, rolling three nights a week and the belly's still there? It's not your metabolism.
Comment CUT and I'll send you my free guide.

A big study in Science tested thousands of people. Metabolism barely moves from 20 to 60. Your organs burn the same at 45 as they did at 25.
What changes is everything between sessions. Desk job, the car, the kids. That's hundreds of calories a day gone.
On rest days, walk. That's where your fat loss is hiding.

How many steps did you do yesterday? Be honest.

Source: Pontzer et al, Science 2021

02/11/2026

An Olympic silver medallist went up a weight class and still won. So why are you starving yourself to make the lowest one?
Comment CUT and I'll send you my free guide on cutting weight without wrecking your performance.
Amandine Buchard has fought at world level at 48, 52 and 57kg. Olympic silver at 52, Grand Prix winner at 57.
Your weight class is a nutrition decision. Weigh yourself every morning for two weeks, find your real walking weight, and pick the class you can make with food and still train hard.
Lowest class or the one you can actually train in? Which are you picking?
Send this to your training partner who keeps dropping a class.

01/11/2026

Training at 7 on a coffee and then blaming your cardio?
Comment FUEL and I'll send you my free guide on fuelling for training.

Reetika Hooda: three set meals, snacks in between, something before bed. All planned by her nutritionist.
Hard sessions burn through the carbs stored in your muscles. Turn up half empty and the last round is the first thing to go.
Proper meal with carbs and protein 2 to 3 hours before. Hungry? Something small and carby closer to it. Carbs and protein after.
Plan your food around your training, not the other way round.

Who do you know that trains on a coffee and a protein bar?
Send this to them.

01/11/2026

Choked out at 22. Champion again at 28. story.

She lost her first title shot, won the belt, then got slammed and lost it. Said she might never fight again. Fourteen months later she came back and took it back with a head kick in 78 seconds.

Would you have come back after that?

Footage: UFC

25/10/2026

Mikey Musumeci ate nothing but pasta and pizza, one giant meal a day
Comment FUEL and I'll send you my free guide on fuelling around training
He told ONE this back in 2022. It works for him, but your training load, weight and comp date are different, so build the plan around you.
One big meal a day: genius or a bad idea?
Send this to your training partner
Footage: UFC Fight Pass

25/10/2026

Kyle Dake won NCAA titles at four different weights
Comment CUT and I'll send you my free guide on cutting weight without losing speed
In a 2018 interview he said that when people get badly dehydrated they're slower, more injury prone and not necessarily stronger. Most of us still dry out for a comp. Cut less, eat more, keep your speed.
Cut hard or stay at your natural weight?
Send this to your training partner
Footage: UWW and Pan Am

24/10/2026

Saori Yoshida dropped 4kg, then owned 55kg for 12 years.
Comment CUT and I'll send you my free guide on making weight.
That class won her three Olympic golds. She moved to 53kg in 2014 and won Worlds there too. Your weight class is a decision, not just a number.
Stay at one weight or move for an edge?
Send this to your training partner.
Source: Wikipedia (Saori Yoshida, Weight section) and Olympedia.
Footage: IOC / Olympic Broadcasting Services (Beijing 2008, London 2012)

24/10/2026

Masakazu Imanari's first leg lock test dummy was his brother.
Comment FUEL and I'll send you my free guide on fuelling hard training.
He didn't train formally until 18 and says his leg lock style is purely self-taught. Same with food: test it in training, not on comp day.
Copy a pro's diet, or test your own?
Send this to your training partner.
Source: ONE Championship feature on Imanari; Imanari via a 2012 Bloody Elbow interview.
Footage: ONE Championship

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