Judo Techniques - What is Better, Fat Or Muscles?

When people are asked about their judo techniques' performance they should know, that it is always better to have more muscles rather than fat. But because of the fact, that in judo there are weight divisions many might get confused on what is better: to stay in the lower weight division or to move up? The important is to understand, that no matter in what weight division you are in you will perform your judo techniques as its best as long as the proportions between muscles and fat are correct.

It is obvious, that when talking about sports such as judo, karate, wrestling and others one of the hottest topics is weight: a serious athlete who practices any of these sports is constantly faced with this issue as the first thing to do before facing the opponents is to face the scale. For some it can constantly be a nightmare.

Big discussions on weight start already among the teenagers, who are entering their competition not only with fear, but always under pressure because of weight problems. When they continue to come to training, they improve their judo techniques, they start shaping their bodies and they grow not only in height but also in weight. It is very difficult to make them understand, that they have to change weight division because they are growing: for them it necessarily means to become fat!

Girls especially make a big fuss out of it. Sometimes they stay weeks hardly eating anything, because they have to stay below that weight in order to remain in their division. They really have a hard time to understand, that it is better to have 70kg of muscles, rather than 48kg of fat. It really is not a matter of weight, but of proportions between fat, muscles and water of which the body is made of.

But is there anything one can do about it? Is there a way to influence these proportions? Sure there is and it is not by not eating or starving to death, that one can reach the desired target, nor can one improve his judo techniques. Most of the judokas are convinced, that the important thing is to make weight, without considering how their deprivation might influence their performance at the competition and how much extra stress they are accumulating. Their judo techniques will of course be negatively affected.

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