Getting There

2 Comments, Posted by: Roy Dean in: Training

I feel better about making weight on Sunday.  A lot of positive encouragement has come in, and I’m not starving myself quite as fiercely as I was before.  I will be right on the border, but I’m doing everything in my power to make it happen.  Weight this morning is 176.6, with no gi on.  Add 6 pounds for the gi, and I’m only 2 pounds off.  Evolutionarily speaking, there are also some advantages to going into the competition a little hungry.  Hormonal responses will surge and testosterone will be high.  I’ll be quite a bit meaner than usual.  Not only did I train hard, but I suffered in the final days.  There is some benefit to that.