When the energy consumed from food becomes insufficient to meet the demands of high physical activity levels, a state of imbalance occurs called low energy availability.
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Female athletes are at increased risk of not eating enough. If energy intake is too low to meet training needs, there can be severe consequences for exercise performance, muscles and health.
Weigh-ins happen the day before a fight.
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How does extreme weight cutting affect MMA fighters, and do they actually benefit from it?
Megabots, coming soon to sports channels?
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US and Japanese tech companies are building fighting megabots to kicktstart what they envisage as a sporting franchise on the scale of Formula 1.
Who will win?
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Millions of dollars will be made by both sides from the fight but does boxing have more to lose than UFC in this big money head-to-head?
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Mixed martial arts athletes are risking serious injury and death through crash dieting, a new report warns.