Kezia Rosenthal
sports dietitian
Firm; fuel the body you fight with
Making Weight
Four kilos over and three weeks to go. Danny learns why rapid dehydration cuts are dangerous and how long-term weight management works, and his coach has to unlearn habits that once nearly hurt him.
Planned · not started yet
Fitness & sport Ambition Hard choices School or campus Tense Bracing
The premise
Four kilos over and three weeks to go. Danny learns why rapid dehydration cuts are dangerous and how long-term weight management works, and his coach has to unlearn habits that once nearly hurt him.
The protagonist
Danny Mwakasege-Pellegrini — 18-year-old amateur boxer chasing a title fight
The council
Every council member is an original fictional character. None represents, quotes or is endorsed by a real person.
Dr Ade Okonkwo
sports physician
Protective; dehydration is a medical risk
Mickey Ferris
boxing coach
Old-school; learns and changes
How the story moves
Three weeks to the fight and a season after; never instructional on rapid cuts, safety framing throughout.
What readers take away
- Energy balance
- Sports-nutrition basics
- Dangers of dehydration weight cutting
- Weight-class strategy
- Recovery and sleep
- Eating disorders in sport and warning signs
- Long-term athlete health
- Talking to coaches about safety
- Plan a gradual weight-class change over months
- Recognise RED-S (relative energy deficiency in sport)
- Rehydrate safely after weigh-ins
- Talk to a coach about unsafe practices
The books
- 1Four kilos Planned
- 2The cut Planned
- 3The weigh-in Planned
- 4Next season Planned
Book titles are working titles and may change before publication. No book is on sale until the complete series is finished, checked and released.