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Weigh-in reform in combat sports
Rapid weight cutting has documented health consequences; commissions and promotions have reformed weigh-in rules, and the evidence shows what the changes did and did not fix.
Articles by Bianca Reyes
Nutrition
What to eat before morning training: fasted versus fed, and timing
The fasted-training debate, what carbohydrate before exercise does to performance, and how early risers can time a pre-training meal.
Bianca Reyes
Nutrition
Low energy availability: the warning signs athletes should know
RED-S and low energy availability describe the same core problem: fueling that does not cover training plus basic physiology. Here are the documented markers.
Bianca Reyes
Nutrition
Carbohydrate loading: what the evidence says about old and new protocols
The classic week-long depletion protocol is obsolete. Modern carbohydrate loading takes one to three days, and the trials show who benefits and who does not.
Bianca Reyes
Nutrition
Iron status in endurance athletes: ferritin, foot-strike hemolysis, and screening
Endurance training raises iron losses in several documented ways. What the research says about who gets screened, and what low ferritin means.
Bianca Reyes
Fitness
Periodization blocks explained simply: what do they do?
Periodization — organizing training into phases or blocks — outperformed non-periodized programs for strength in a 2017 meta-analysis, with modest average advantages and no evidence that one structure beats all others.
Bianca Reyes