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By Maggie Hendricks, Yahoo! Sports
Mystery surrounds elite fighters and their ability to cut weight. How is it possible for Georges St. Pierre to drop 25 pounds by Friday afternoon before his fight with Jake Shields but gain most of it back and be full-strength by fight time on Saturday night?
It’s no guessing game. Smart fighters treat nutrition as a science, carefully regulating their diet before fights. GSP’s main trainer Firas Zahabi talked about what the UFC welterweight champ does to ensure a healthy weight cut.
Now he’s on a protein and vegetable diet. Right now his exercise is significantly cut, but he’s going to shed water. It’s only temporary weight loss. It’s not real weight loss. You’re not dropping fat. (The final weight-cut) lasts about six days . . . By Friday he’ll have six or seven pounds left and we’ll put him in the sauna. I don’t recommend this to anybody, even professional athletes. This is somebody who’s very seasoned.
After GSP steps on the scale on Friday afternoon and weighs in at 170 lbs., his team will give him a carbohydrate-laden recovery drink. Then, he will eat normally and drink water to rehydrate. He’ll weigh around 192 lbs. by the time he steps in the Octagon with Shields on Saturday night for UFC 129.
Some fighters start their eating plan months in advance. Mike Dolce, a nutritionist and former contestant on “The Ultimate Fighter,” works with fighters to ensure a complete eating plan that helps fighters cut weight without the sauna. Like Zahabi, Dolce does not recommend sauna use.
“The guys who use the sauna to cut ten or twelve pounds, you’re forcing your body to expel so much water so quickly that it’s not discerning what water is safe to cut from the system and what water isn’t. It’s just taking it from wherever, and it becomes dangerous. That’s where you see guys who don’t recover from their weight cut. They look sluggish in their fight, and they defeat the whole purpose of all the training and the conditioning from their fight camp.”
A recent study on wrestlers found that severe weight cuts could hurt their mental abilities in a match. Without using proper methods, fighters can find themselves in bad shape for their bouts.
 
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 1, 2011

THE DOLCE DIET: LIVING LEAN RELEASE DELAYED
TO ADD DETAILED WORKOUT SECTION

LAS VEGAS, NV – The Dolce Diet: Living Lean has a new release date of August 1, 2011. The decision to delay the publication of Mike Dolce’s total lifestyle book was made due to overwhelming fan feedback requesting a detailed exercise program to accompany Mike’s world-class nutrition and lifestyle plan. The original release date was set for May 28.
“We’ve received thousands of requests from all over the world asking for an exercise section to be included in Living Lean, so that’s exactly what we’re doing,” Mike said. “With consumer expectations so high, we decided to push back the original release date to add the new content in a manner worthy of our supporter’s expectations.”
Mike is best known for his nutritional expertise, working with many of the greatest athletes in professional sports, but first and foremost, he is a strength and conditioning coach.
“Exercise is the cornerstone of my life’s work and something that must be included to truly make Living Lean a complete lifestyle book,” he said. “The exercise portion of Living Lean will include hundreds of studio photographs to illustrate the precise techniques, leverage points and muscle groups involved in each motion. We will teach you how to personalize your own training program regardless of age, gender, goal or background.”
The Dolce Diet™ brand has become a global phenomenon over the last few years due to the extraordinary results Mike has achieved with his elite stable of world-class athletes who consistently compete at the highest levels of international competition. What sets Mike’s principles apart is that he is a longevity advocate.
“When I focus on each of my athletes living for 120 vibrant years, the short-term athletic performance and lean body mass attributes just take care of themselves,” he said.
This concept has now been proven thousands of times through Mike’s first publication, The Dolce Diet: 3-Weeks to Shredded, which originally started out as a clean and simple weight-cutting manual for athletes, but has since crossed the gender barrier and has been used successfully by thousands of men and women of all ages, ethnicities, medical histories and body types to totally transform their lives. To date, The Dolce Diet: 3 Weeks to Shredded has been sold in over 82 countries.

Living Lean contains recipes, meal plans, anecdotes from inside MMA’s top fight camps, a brief history of Mike Dolce’s background, and now, the addition of an extensive workout section.

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For more information about Mike Dolce and The Dolce Diet™ visit TheDolceDiet.com and MikeDolceMMA.com.

“Mike Dolce’s the best in the business! Mike Dolce is positive, and he’s a motivator. When Mike told me I would lose weight, I believed him…which made me believe in myself.”
“I got Mike Dolce with me,” Sonnen said. “He says we got it (my weight) under control, and I believe him.”

“The Dolce Diet, it’s amazing! It’s not just for cutting weight.  It’s about learning to eat properly for your health.”
~VITOR “THE PHENOM” BELFORT

I’ve had 30 fights and I’ve never felt better than I do now with the help of Mike Dolce and The Dolce Diet.”

Mike Dolce is a complete genius! Smoothest weight cut @JohnyHendricks has ever had. This guy KNOWS what he’s talking about! @TheDolceDiet

[blockquote cite=”Chris Leben, UFC Middleweight”]“I can’t thank Mike Dolce enough. I have never felt better, faster or more clear headed in a fight than I did tonight. Thank you The Dolce Diet! (On his :27 second knock-out of Wanderlei Silva at UFC 132)[/blockquote]

[blockquote cite=”Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson, star of Hollywood blockbuster “The A-Team” movie & two-time UFC world champion / #4 ranked UFC light-heavyweight in the world on his 45 lbs. weight loss in 8 weeks working with Mike Dolce”]I used to only cut 5 or 6 lbs. and I would always feel really bad and really drained. Now (on The Dolce Diet) I feel good, man. No fighters have had to lose as much weight as I had to lose. I still feel good and I lost 45 pounds![/blockquote]

[blockquote cite=”Mike Pyle, UFC Welterweight & star of Universal Soldier: Regeneration and the upcoming Men in Black III, Mike Pyle, via Heavy.com”]“It’s unbelievable how The Dolce Diet has changed me as a fighter…and an athlete – I should say athlete because I can perform at higher levels now. It’s amazing. It’s just so simple, but I was uneducated about it. And Mike helped to shed a little light on me and really open my eyes. And wow! What a difference, man…a huge, huge difference.[/blockquote]