Hey athlete, you need to cut weight: weight loss guidance practices and perceptions of Chinese combat sports coaches
Coaches are the primary drivers of pre-competition WL practices in CS, actively requiring athletes to reduce weight to compete in lower categories. While many coaches recognize potential health risks, a substantial proportion perceive WL as neutral or beneficial, and their recommendations are often based on personal experience rather than scientific evidence. Coaches' perceptions influence the risk level of methods they recommend.
Authors
- Anthony Weldon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5762-332X)
- Mingyue Yin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6105-8797)
- Yong-Chao Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-3398)
- Carl Langan‐Evans (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1120-6592)
- Yuming Zhong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9672-8067)
- Yanzhen Luo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6273-5410)
- Yongqiao Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3810-2689)
- Nemanja Lakičević (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9628-0606)
- Thomas Gee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7253-2055)
- Christopher Kirk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6207-027X)
- Chao Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9089-2860)
- Zhao Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1844-055X)
- Pengchao Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2982-1131)
- Meiling Tao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0853-7002)
- S Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2131-6640)
- Kai Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1403-4127)
- Zihan Ren (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9086-0541)
Institutions
- Liaoning University (CN)
- Birmingham City University (GB)
- Dalian University of Foreign Languages (CN)
- Aston University (GB)
- Henan University (CN)
- Shanghai University of Sport (CN)
- Lomonosov Moscow State University (RU)
- Krirk University (TH)
- Aston Medical (France) (FR)
- Dalian University (CN)
- Henan University of Engineering (CN)
- Mfantsiman Girls Secondary School (GH)
- Second People Hospital of Hunan (CN)
- China Institute of Sport Science (CN)
- Moscow State University (TJ)
- Moscow State Open University (RU)
- Henan Agricultural University (CN)
- University of Lincoln (GB)
- Liverpool John Moores University (GB)
- Dali University (CN)
- Sheffield Hallam University (GB)
- Beijing Sport University (CN)
- Hologic (Germany) (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition
- Published
- 2025-09-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15502783.2025.2565385
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Thermoregulation and physiological responses
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.33