Tournament Weight Cut Planner
Tell us your current weight, your target, and how many days you have. We’ll show a daily target and a plain risk read — framed around making weight safely, not crash-cutting.
Black-belt review pendingThis is a safety-first planner
If making weight ever means starving, dehydrating or training sick, stop and talk to a coach or sports dietitian. We’d rather you compete a division up than get hurt.
A planner, not a crash diet
This tool exists to keep you out of trouble. Rapid weight cutting — the sauna-suit, water-loading, zero-carb scramble — is common in grappling and genuinely dangerous when it’s rushed. The safest cuts are slow: a gradual drop of body fat and a small, well-timed water manipulation at the very end, managed by someone who knows what they’re doing.
We classify your plan by how much of your bodyweight you’d need to lose per week. Under roughly 1% per week is the range most sports-nutrition guidance considers sustainable. Past that, you’re increasingly trading performance, focus and health for scale numbers.
What the risk read means
On track: your target is reachable with normal, sensible nutrition and training. Aggressive: doable, but it needs a real plan and probably a coach’s eye. High risk: the timeline is short enough that hitting it safely is unlikely — the honest move is to enter a higher division or pick a later event.
If a number here ever pushes you toward starving, dehydrating, or training sick to make weight, that’s your signal to stop and talk to a coach or a sports dietitian. A medal isn’t worth a hospital trip.