- It was what they called,
one of the worst cuts potentially in boxing history.
In the waning seconds of the 12th round,
Badou Jack is chomping at the bit,
moving forward, looking for more.
- I lost a lot of blood.
Probably two, three liters of blood.
Doctors ringside they said,
normally a regular person would pass out.
Great nutrition and everything
maybe helped me in that fight.
I feel younger, I don't feel like a 36 year old,
I feel like a 2 year old maybe.
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- My names George Lockhart,
I'm a co-founder from Lockhart and Leith,
the performance based nutrition company.
Right here, you know we're talkin' about the upcoming fight
with Badou Jack, what we're gonna be doing as a company,
as a team, to get him ready for
the December 28 fight.
When I first started in the UFC
they need help with weight cutting, stuff like that,
and then you know, I figured that boxing has been
around for so long, I figured they'd have it down pat.
Then we actually started
diving into it, we realized no these guys,
they need the same amount of help
in terms of nutrition and performance as well!
Most boxers don't have nutritionists.
That's something that surprised me.
Anything with a specialty sport like boxing and MMA,
you constantly evolve, you constantly grow.
You're learning new techniques.
The longer that you're able to do that,
the longer you're able to evolve,
the better you're gonna be.
So if you're eating properly,
you're recovering properly,
and you're giving your body what it needs when it needs it,
that's gonna give you longevity in your career.
Most champions I think in the UFC are like 36, 37.
So the longer that you can stay in the game,
and the longer you can recover,
the better you're gonna be.
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- My name is James Lockwood
Badou Jack's chef nutritionist
for this world title fight camp,
my goal with him and this camp
is to pull some weight off him.
Have his energy levels remain very high,
have his muscle mass remain roughly what it is today
so we're not losing anything
and just have him feeling on fire by the time
we get to fight week and fight day.
A big difference from my experience with UFC fighters
and boxers UFC fighters wanna step into the octagon
and be a little bit bigger.
So if they weigh in at 160, they wanna rehydrate
and then refuel and maybe they go in 15 pounds,
18 pounds heavier then they were
when they stepped on the scale.
That's gonna benefit them when
they're grinding and wrestling and jui-jitsu.
As opposed to a boxer, you wanna be speed,
you're going 12 rounds,
so when you think about speed and agility,
you don't wanna be carrying too much mass after
you weigh in because your body might not quite
be accustomed to it, and you might fatigue.
Boxers operate more around their fight weight
than UFC fighters do in my opinion and from my experience.
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- Badou is one of those guys that stays pretty straight
year round he calls James about eight weeks out
and the thing is James went straight from Triple G,
he took a couple days off and then he came straight
to Badou, James is such a hot commodity that people
are always calling for him.
If we get six to eight weeks notice,
which is normal for a fight camp, we're good to go.
What we're doing with Badou and every athlete that
we have, everything is very specific.
You know, when I work with Conor,
he' not getting the same nutrition as Badou.
They have different macro nutrient needs that
their bodies are different, they have different train
schedules but also like one of 'em is more carb adaptive
where as one of 'em is more carb adaptive.
Conor I could literally load him up on carbs
all day long and his body can still do it like that
you know, that's just the way he's built
and that's the way his body is and working with him
time and time again you find out like what does he need?
For example, when you're anaerobic, meaning without oxygen,
your body's primary source of fuel is carbohydrates.
When you're aerobic, your body's primary source of fuel
is fat in terms of workouts we use something called
metabolic equivalent, right?
Metabolic equivalent is the way that we measure
the amount of calories an individual burns.
3.5 is the actual amount of oxygen that somebody
consumes and exhales per minute, right?
So we do intensity times 3.5 divided by the overall
kilograms in weight, divide that by 200 and then
multiply the duration of the workout.
So, the higher the intensity and the longer the duration
of the workout, the higher obviously the caloric intake
is gonna be, you burn 1,000 calories jogging
and you burn 1,000 calories lifting weights,
you burn 1,000 calories for both of those,
but you use different fuel sources.
If you're jogging, remember you're aerobic when you're
jogging so you burn more fat.
If you're lifting weights,
you burn more carbohydrates.
- In what we do, timing is everything.
I don't believe all calories are created equal,
it's not always about what ingredient is good or bad
for you it's more about when is it good or bad for you.
So, when we start camp together, we live together.
I make it a point to live with my athletes
whenever possible because I want to be glued to the hip.
To be able to make sure that my guy is drinking
just the right amount of water.
And make sure that when his schedule changes on a dime
the food can change on the dime.
I have snack balls that I prepare,
I have juices that I prepare ahead of time.
So everything is an on the go.
I love to take into account
where that person comes from in the world
and what their cultural cuisine is like.
So, Badou Jack being Gambian and Swedish,
I do a lot of West African dishes,
a lot of spices, herbs, I even communicate with his mom
and say hey, how did you make this?
And she sends me recipes and then I'll put my twist on it.
By the end of camp I can tell when they're sad,
when they're happy, when they're angry, when they're hangry.
Living with my guy is what it's all about.
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I've been with Badou for about, almost three weeks now.
Breakfast is always a very important part of what we do
in this camp because it's an opportunity for us to get
a lot of vitamins, minerals, digestive enzymes,
and nutrients into his system while he's on a fairly
empty stomach, every single morning I start with a fresh
pressed juice today's juice we have mint, basil,
dandelion, jalapeno, some citrus, tumeric root
and ginger root, they're highly anti-inflammatory
so when he goes to train and he beats his body up,
we're already set up to fight that inflammation that occurs.
We're going to help remove free radicals.
We're gonna improve his metabolism and have him fired up
so when it does come time, ready to eat lunch,
it's not like he hasn't had anything,
he'll be ready to burn that fuel quickly
and then go into a rest state.
That's the first portion of our breakfast.
- Some people go to work 'cause they have to,
James doesn't have to, he loves this.
He loves workin' with people,
he genuinely wants them to succeed.
I remember the first time I went to his house,
he's got rosemary growin', he's got sage growin',
he's got basil growin' so when he's at home
he'll just come out his front yard
and just cuts everything up so he can cook it.
James says there's no cheat day,
but who needs to cheat when you're eating your food bro?
Like it's five star meals every day.
The fighters, they're like I don't cheat,
I'm like I wouldn't say that so much because of discipline,
as much as James' amazing cooking.
- What is this?
- So, the smoothie today.
We have blue green algae in the form of spirilina,
it's anti-inflammatory, we put mango, a little blueberry,
maca root for energy support and just a little flax oil.
- Real good. - Thank you
- And honey?
- [James] Little honey, yes yes, raw honey.
- That's what I thought.
- So, we've got the juice,
we've got the superfood smoothie goin' down,
the next and final course we're gonna do,
is just a 21 grain organic bread
with an avocado spread over the top of it.
So, it's fresh avocado, it's coconut oil,
a little bit of sea salt, a little bit of black pepper,
freshly cracked black pepper
has an ingredient called piperine
and that helps the body absorb nutrients from food
so we put a lot of cracked pepper so he's absorbing
more nutrients than let's say without
and then I'll put some micro basil on it,
some fresh tomato, and I'll just hit it one last time
with a little citrus.
This will cover everything that he needs going into
a workout, he can train as hard as he can,
he'll have a post workout smoothie immediately after
he's done training, then he'll come home
and we'll address his needs for lunch.
- Can we add onion, or no?
- Uh yes, we can.
How about green onion?
I have some right here. - Yeah, please.
- See how that works?
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- For the most part, most fighters,
they'll start tapering as the fight camp comes to an end.
He'll probably do two-a-days until about two weeks out.
And then he'll start tapering out,
two weeks out he'll probably do one-a-day
and then fight week, he'll wanna do as little as possible.
Two weeks out, his nutrition doesn't change at all,
you know, same principles, give the body what it needs
when it needs it so start working out less,
guess what, we start feedin' him less.
If we do our job perfectly,
James does his job perfectly,
he's just gonna wake up Friday morning,
walk to the scale, weigh in and that's all she wrote.
- We want Badou drinking at least a gallon of water
so I have a gallon, we have a purified water system.
I fill this at the beginning of the day
and by the time he does to bed, it's empty.
This is not including his post workout beverage,
it's not including his juice,
it's not including his smoothie,
it's not including his pre run coffee,
this is outside of that.
As we get into the fight week,
we'll start to increase his water, potentially up to
two gallons or more a day, but only for a short
amount of time, he'll continually try to get back
to homeostasis which is like an even water amount
but he'll flush fluids out of his system
it'll also pull a little sodium out of his system
and that just makes it easier for him
to stand on the scale and make weight.
If he were to drink a gallon of water
over the course of a day, that's about 8.2 pounds
in the body so when you think about increasing that water
intake the weight yes may go up
but then when we start to cut back on the water,
a day or potentially two days or day and a half
before the weigh in, he'll start to flush all that
and potentially take off 10, 12 pounds.
But it's also very specific to the athlete
based on his muscle mass, based on his lean tissue mass,
it's very scientific when we get to that part of camp,
everything has to be spot on perfect.
- The re hydration is 10 times more important than
the actual cut itself.
Three percent dehydration equates up to 30% decrease
in performance so if you're just a little dehydrated,
that has a huge effect.
Also you gotta find out, how much glycogen does
your body hold, glycogen is basically the way our body
stores energy in terms of carbohydrates.
So I need to find out how much your body actually holds
so I know how much to give you before you know, fight time.
It sucks to say like this year alone,
there's been three boxers alone that have been killed
in the actual ring, I'm not saying that dehydration
had anything to do with that at all,
but if there's any chance that that has an effect,
that's something that we wanna be on top of.
When the brains dehydrated, it is more susceptible to injury
so we wanna make sure they're fully hydrated,
and make sure they're not cutting a lot of weight.
Like I said boxers, they don't cut a lot of weight
but what I see is, because they don't cut,
they don't put a lot of energy into actual re hydration,
they don't care, as soon as they make weight,
the go ahead and they eat whatever they want.
I've seen guys literally pounding soda
and eating like fettuccine alfredo
and I'm sitting there like oh my God,
you're supposed to be a world class athlete.
- It's not over when you make weight,
you have to be very conscious on how you re fuel.
First you have to re hydrate,
get good amounts of water back into his system,
sodium, potassium, you know we give them all kinds of good
stuff to make sure that that's the first thing we address.
Then, we get all the macro nutrients into him.
We don't want to give him too much too quickly.
[deep exhale] We all know that
feeling when you eat too much,
you wanna take a nap, that's obviously not a good scenario.
His last meal comes five hours before the fight.
All his stores will be full,
he'll have everything out of his digestive tract,
he's not trying to break down food anymore
and we base that on what time he wakes up at fight day
and then I do the calculations,
okay we're gonna give him X amount of meals
with X amount of carbs,
and then we stop five hours to the fight.
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- Like I said, we don't create champions,
we're just gonna make you the best you you can be.
I think Badou, he's still growing
and him and James are like brothers
like you become part of the family.
When you work with a fight camp,
like when I work with Conor, I'm there with him
the moment he wakes up to the moment he goes to bed
like you become a huge part of their life.
- [James] It's like life long bonds we create
and it doesn't end with the fight.
- I know that everything I eat is 100% the best,
it's a blessing, I wish I had this opportunity
earlier in my career.
- What is boxing?
It's a jab cross uppercut hook.
Four punches.
But the combinations and the way you throw those
four punches it'd take people 30 years to try
and master that one thing.
Training those four punches have evolved so much
over the years whereas the nutrition, the weight cutting,
I think has not, it's all primitive as all get up.
We're comin' in, we're gonna start introducing our program
and our system to everybody.
I think it's just like MMA, it's gonna catch on like
wildfire because people are gonna be like what,
this stuff works!
Everybodys looking for that extra inch,
that advantage and we're that advantage.
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