Expert Advice: Weight Cutting for BJJ by Renato Tavares

Back in December, whilst visiting my mom, I had the good fortune of training a number of days at American Top Team Vero Beach, headed up by Renato Tavares.
The guy still competes at many IBJJF tournaments, has a bananas wall of badass medals to proof the efficacy of what he teaches, and was super welcoming to me during my stay.

The man has won some tournaments.

That being said, for a guy his age (40ish I believe) he is in ridiculous shape. The guy looks better at his age than I've probably ever looked in my life, even when I was in my early 20's and training for MMA fights.

Having trained and competed and fought in various combat/grappling sports, I take what anyone tells me with a grain of salt. I ask myself, "has this person demonstrated under duress or in competition or at least in a live format the thing they are espousing?"
Weight cutting for the IBJJF with weigh-ins minutes before you compete potentially is NOT the same as cutting weight for wrestling, cutting weight for a local tournament with day before weigh-ins. Nor is it the same as making weight for an amateur MMA fight with 3x3 min rounds. Nor is it the same as a day before weigh-in for a pro MMA bout of 5x5min rounds.
Moving on, this man has done the below, and won so when he speaks, I listen:
 

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From over at Bloodyelbow.com:

"table are listed alphabetically.

TotT	Name	Division	Zuffa Record
March 20		Terry Etim	Lightweight	6–5
March 20		Jon Fitch	Welterweight	14–3–1
March 20		Ulysses Gomez	Flyweight	0–2
March 20		Josh Grispi*	Featherweight	4–4
March 20		Jay Hieron	Welterweight	0–4
March 1		Rampage Jackson	Light Heavyweight	7–5
March 20		C.J. Keith	Lightweight	0–2
March 20		Vladimir Matyushenko	Light Heavyweight	7–5
March 20		Che Mills	Welterweight	2–2
March 21		Diego Nunes*	Featherweight	7–4
March 20		Wagner Prado	Light Heavyweight	0–2 (1 NC)
March 26		Matt Riddle	Welterweight	8–3 (1 NC)
March 20		Mike Russow	Heavyweight	4–2
March 20		Jorge Santiago	Welterweight	1–5
March 13		Cristiane Santos	Women's Bantamweight	0–0 (1 NC)
March 20		Paul Sass	Lightweight	3–2
March 13		Aaron Simpson*	Welterweight	8–4
March 20		Mike Stumpf	Welterweight	0–2
March 20		Motonobu Tezuka	Bantamweight	0–2
March 20		Simeon Thoresen	Welterweight	1–2
March 21		Milton Vieira	Featherweight	0–1–1
March 20		Jacob Volkmann	Lightweight	6–4

Recent Signings

The fighters listed below have been signed or come out of retirement in the last month, or have yet to make their octagon debut or return. Fighters in this table are listed alphabetically.

TotT	Name	Division	MMA Record
April 6		Adlan Amagov	Welterweight	11–2–1
April 20		Roger Bowling	Lightweight	11–3
March 12		Nah-Shon Burrell	Welterweight	8–2
April 20		Daniel Cormier	Heavyweight	11–0
April 6		Ryan Couture	Lightweight	6–1
Unknown		Alexis Davis	Women's Bantamweight	13–5
Unknown		Germaine de Randamie	Women's Bantamweight	3–2
March 16		Nick Diaz	Welterweight	26–8 (1 NC)
Unknown		Geronimo dos Santos	Heavyweight	31–14
July		Roger Gracie	Middleweight	6–1
Unknown		Nandor Guelmino	Heavyweight	11–4–1
April 27		Pat Healy	Lightweight	29–16
Unknown		Jason High	Welterweight	16–3
March 3		Mizuto Hirota	Featherweight	14–5–1
Unknown		Kurt Holobaugh	Featherweight	9–1
March 3		Kyung Ho Kang	Bantamweight	11–6
Unknown		Guto Inocente	Light Heavyweight	6–0
Unknown		Sarah Kaufman	Women's Bantamweight	15–2
Unknown		Julie Kedzie	Women's Bantamweight	16–11
Unknown		Tim Kennedy	Middleweight	15–4
April 6		Ryan LaFlare	Welterweight	7–0
April 20		Lorenz Larkin	Middleweight	13–0 (1 NC)
March 3		Hyun Gyu Lim	Welterweight	10–3–1
April 20		Jorge Masvidal	Lightweight	23–7
Unknown		Nate Marquardt	Welterweight	32–11–2
Unknown		Adriano Martins	Lightweight	24–6
April 6		Conor McGregor	Featherweight	12–2
April 27		Yancy Medeiros	Middleweight	9–0
March 16		Jordan Mein	Welterweight	26–8
April 20		Gilbert Melendez	Lightweight	21–2
Unknown		Eddie Mendez	Light Heavyweight	7–0–1 (1 NC)
April 6		Gegard Mousasi	Light Heavyweight	33–3–2
March 16		Quinn Mulhern	Welterweight	18–2
May 25		K.J. Noons	Lightweight	11–6
Unknown		Amanda Nunes	Women's Bantamweight	7–3
May 25		Estevan Payan	Featherweight	14–3 (1 NC)
May 18		Luke Rockhold	Middleweight	10–1
April 20		Yoel Romero	Middleweight	4–1
Unknown		Tarec Saffiedine	Welterweight	14–3
April 27		Ovince St. Preux	Light Heavyweight	12–5
May 18		Ronaldo Souza	Middleweight	17–3 (1 NC)
April 6		Chris Spang	Welterweight	5–1
April 13		Miesha Tate	Women's Bantamweight	13–3
April 20		Josh Thomson	Lightweight	19–5 (1 NC)
March 3		Kazuki Tokudome	Lightweight	11–3
Unknown		James Vick	Lightweight	4–0
April 27		Gian Villante	Light Heavyweight	10–3
March 12		Yuri Villefort	Welterweight	6–1
March 16		Bobby Voelker	Welterweight	24–8
April 13		Cat Zingano	Women's Bantamweight	7–0