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@galu Right, but my point is that as the sport exists today, being able to cut weight is part of the skill set of the sport. You're right to call it a mismatch, but it's a mismatch in the skill of the athletes, not just in their sizes.

@galu Respectfully, "gaming the weight in" is part of the sport. You can't blame people for playing within the rules of the sport. If MMA/wrestling/boxing federations wanted to people to fight close to their weigh-in weights, they could do the weigh ins shortly before the fight. You can see...

@ambitiouspoetry I spun my wheels for about six years before I got my first one. I did a lot of training with bands, negatives, static holds, jumping pull ups, assisted machine and got nowhere. When I switched to a really focused powerlifting routine and started training my back a lot more --...

@amydoodles 74.3 lb of lean body mass is quite low, even for someone on the shorter side. I wouldn't worry so much about your diet as about increasing your strength workouts (whether it's weightlifting or rock climbing more often or whatever works for you). Muscle mass starts a natural process...

@dawn16 Totally different fat distribution than OP -- you carry a decent amount in your legs whereas OP's legs are very lean for a woman. I'd imagine that's the major difference between the two of you, since your torsos definitely look similar.

@ruky Respectfully, I disagree. You have a misunderstanding about beginner strength gains -- it is perfectly possible for a beginner to make strength gains during a cut; however, these are usually the result of CNS adaptation and improvements in technique, not of muscle growth. I feel that...

@ruky Sorry, it is not possible to not lose any lean mass on a cut. Cuts are high-protein with the goal of sparing as much muscle as possible; there is still muscle loss. Honestly I don't think that you learned a healthy lesson from this experience and I'm concerned that there's going to be a...