Weightlifting is a tough job.
Weightlifting is an integral part of weight class sports, especially in martial arts.
Very few fighters like it. On Boxing Day, the Espoo Metro Arena will host the Ice Cage 6 event, whose match card is loaded with top-level fights.
Because of the time, the contestants have had to celebrate Christmas in an extraordinary way. Christmas foods are not suitable for the contestant’s diet.
Christmas Eve was the hardest day for weightlifting. Before weighing the next morning, the body must be dried carefully so that there is not much left to lose on the morning of the weighing day.
To be seen in the second main match of Ice Cage 6 Theo Kolehmainen at the official weigh-in, the maximum weight was 70.3 kilos.
Kolehmainen has, among other things, his own On his YouTube account said in the published videos that he likes delicacies.
Sweat flowed
Theo Kolehmainen was wrapped in a space blanket and towels after a long hot bath. Jaakko Dahlbacka
The morning before, Kolehmainen had an extra 3.8 kilos of weight. Pedaling the bike and hitting the pointe gloves took 0.8 kilos out of it.
Next, we jumped into a hot bath for a few hours. Afterward, we rested in a package made of a space blanket and towels while the sweat flowed.
Late in the evening of Christmas Eve, the excess weight was only about 100 grams.
Kolehmainen didn’t drink anything the night before. The Christmas meal was five eggs and nuts.
The weigh-in was on Christmas Day at 10 o’clock in the morning. The last hundred grams disappeared during the night, and the weight was less than 70.3 kilograms.
Kolehminen and his coach Jaakko Dahlbackan with the same about four kilos was planed by the Finnish freestyle star Abdul Husseinwhich is also seen in a cage on Boxing Day.
Also a Finnish female star Sani Brannfors dropped four kilos and passed the morning weigh-in.
The show weigh-in for the Ice Cage 6 event is scheduled for Christmas Day at 5 p.m.
Under the pictures, factual information about how weight pulling works.
Weightlifting was started by pedaling the bike and punching the point gloves. Jaakko Dahlbacka
Theo Kolehmainen was in a hot bath for a few hours before being wrapped in a package. Jaakko Dahlbacka
Sweat flowed from the shackled man. Jaakko Dahlbacka
Finland’s top athlete Abdul Hussein did the weightlifting in the same group. Jaakko Dahlbacka
Sweat flowed from Theo Kolehmainen’s body when he came out of the package. Jaakko Dahlbacka
Abdul Hussein went to sweat in the sauna as well. Jaakko Dahlbacka
This is how weightlifting works
The actual weight lifting starts at the beginning of the match week, and it is done by adjusting the fluid balance.
Liquid refueling means drinking more and more water. At the same time, the athlete reduces carbohydrates so that the liquid does not bind. Salts are also reduced. In other words, the electrolyte balance is disturbed.
About a day before the weigh-in, drinking stops. The final emptying and drying of the body begins. All liquid is squeezed out by sweating. Others like the sauna, but hot baths and wrapping in a thermal blanket are also ways that work.
Sometimes, the evening before weighing, a stool softener is also taken.
Weightlifting is definitely not healthy. Weight pulling has been considered a dangerous limit when more than 10 percent of the body’s weight is taken from fluids. Weight pulling can also have an effect on impact resistance.
After the weighing, a different phase begins. Liquids and food can be enjoyed again, but at the same time the electrolyte balance must be corrected. Drinking water does not help if the liquid is not absorbed. At the same time, the energies must be raised for the match.