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The Muay Thai Competition Guide
One sport, two opposite systems. One removed the cut with a hydration test. The other weighs you on the morning of the fight.
What is inside
- The two systems side by side, and the three questions to put to a promoter
- What a hydration test measures, why it cannot be corrected on the morning, and how to pass it
- The same-day weigh-in, and the refill when you have hours rather than a night
- The frequency problem: why the published band for boxers is meaningless if you fight monthly
- A timeline table, and how to read it when you do not have 8 weeks
- Anti-doping, and why it splits between the amateur and professional sides
- A fight day card and a bag checklist
You buy it once, you download the PDF, it is yours. No email course, no coaching call attached, no upsell. Refund terms.
Who it is for
- A fighter competing under hydration testing and walking weight.
- A fighter on the stadium circuit weighing in on the morning of the fight.
- Anyone fighting often enough that the published between-camps band stops applying.
Who it is not for
- Someone expecting one plan for both systems.
- An athlete under 18 looking for a descent plan.
- Anyone after a fat-loss diet.
Before you buy
Two complete documents are free to read on the samples page, and the reasoning behind this guide is on the site at no cost. If the free pages answer your question, you do not need it.
Common questions
What does a hydration test measure?
The guide explains what it measures, why it cannot be corrected on the morning, and how to pass it.
Does it cover a same-day weigh-in?
Yes, including the refill when you have hours rather than a night.
I fight monthly. Does the guide handle that?
Yes. The frequency problem has its own section, because the published band assumes a long camp.
Is anti-doping covered?
Yes, and where it splits between the amateur and professional sides.
Does it work for ONE and stadium rules together?
The two systems are set side by side. Confirm the current rules with your promoter.
Free reading on the same problem
The guide is the protocol. These articles are the reasoning behind it, and they cost nothing.
- Muay Thai Weight Cutting: Two Opposite Systems. ONE removed the dehydration cut with hydration testing and walking weight. The Thai stadium circuit did not. Two systems, one sport, opposite approaches.
- Muay Thai Weight Classes: Stadiums, IFMA and ONE. The Thai stadium ladder in pounds, IFMA in kilograms, and why a ONE strawweight is not a strawweight anywhere else. Plus the weigh-in that decides it.
- Hydration Testing: What 1.025 Actually Measures. The same threshold is used in two sports for opposite purposes. One uses it to let you compete, the other to decide how light you are allowed to get.
- Same-Day Weigh-In: How the Weight Cut Changes. A same-day weigh-in roughly halves what can come out as water: about 1 percent of body mass against 2 the day before. What that means for camp.
- Competing Abroad: Time Zones and the Weigh-In. The scale runs on local time and your body does not. Two strategies exist and they are opposites, and the worst thing is to land halfway between them.
- Fight Day Eating When the Bell Time Moves. How to eat when the first bell could be at two in the afternoon or at midnight, and what to do when the card runs late.
The guides are the system in general. If you want the numbers run for your weight, your date and your weigh-in format, that is a written plan, which is a different product from a guide.
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Oleksandr Foka — sports nutritionist. Guides are sold and delivered through Gumroad, under their terms.
Educational material, not medical treatment. For adults 18+. Weight cutting carries real risks including dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, impaired cognition and cardiac strain. Nothing here replaces care from a physician. Under strict liability, final responsibility for anything you take is yours.