27/10/2026
I used to believe you had to suffer to make weight otherwise you weren’t doing it properly. Like isn’t suffering normal? (No, it’s common - but not normal)
Years of competing at national and international level showed me how glorified and normalized “suck weight cut are”. Coaches enable and encourage it, all the top lifters post about it, and no one questions it.
Most of the time, the dramatic things you’re doing are actually unnecessary. And if you’re spitting in a cup to make weight, you never had a strategy to begin with.
It’s gross but you’ll do it anyway because you are the athlete who will do what it takes. You’ll train unrelentingly for weeks without complaining - but then spend the last week dizzy, hungry, miserable and lugging around a gallon of water that makes you sick to look at.
With our athletes, making weight is not a last minute thing. It’s something that we strategically plan from the moment they come into coaching - and because of that, making weight is a non-event.
A great example is my phenomenal athlete Jil - who starting working with us 18 months ago.
She bombed at Masters Worlds in 2024, and again at bench worlds in 2025 because of the way she cut weight. She wasn’t quite spitting in a cup, but she knew that the drastic drop before competition wasn’t helping her and she wasn’t sure what to do.
Fast forward to today, where she’s walked away with a silver medal at World Bench, and silver overall at World Masters (PRs all round, with silver medal in squat and deadlift, and gold in bench) and had ZERO worries about making weight.
In her words “FINALLY got the meet I trained for. So much to recap! Fueled perfectly!”.
Meet week should be the easiest week of your prep. Not the most stressful.
Jil’s story is not unique - going from stressed and bombing to strong and winning is what happens when you join the Performance Accelerator.
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