Making weight takes time and effort–but if you exercise in shorts and a t-shirt (or without the t-shirt) at or below a freezing temperature (0 °C = 32 °F) you can do it quicker and easier than if you’d exercised within human thermoneutral zone (for people of normal weight it starts at 21 °C and ends well below 40 °C).
Practical conclusion:
To save time as well as wear and tear on your muscles and joints exercise when cold. An example:
Oops! I forgot you don’t need to make weight for a match. No matches for a long time. All because of the pandemic caused by governments who refused to follow standard epidemic prevention procedures in time. Remember: Taiwan has had only seven covid deaths (7) and has never had to go into lockdown (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/taiwan/). This is because Taiwan’s government followed standard epidemic prevention procedures, without stupid delays. Every time you can’t spar or grapple, remember that the pandemic is caused by turds and traitors who refused to follow standard epidemic prevention procedures in time.
Loved the last email. Can’t agree with you more, although calling them turds is much too mild a term. It’s always good to hear that not everyone has turned off their brains. Thank you. On a different note, I would like to tell you that your book Stretching Scientifically was a revelation for me. I purchased it quite a number of years ago and have been using the principles on an ongoing basis. Thanks you for that and let’s hope that common sense prevails.
Brian Ottenbreit
I mean the words “turds and traitors” literally with all that they entail, so neither of them is a mild term. For example, turds belong in a cesspool until they dissolve in it–not figuratively but actually.