Alex Volkanovski's refueling plan leaves room for a late-fight sleep
Pancakes, fries and a hotel buffet fill the menu, but the featherweight's recovery day also means working backward from his Octagon appearance.
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What I Eat After Cutting to 145lbs for Featherweight
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- 1:55Jordy explains why the team starts with fluids and electrolytes before Volkanovski eats solid food.
- 4:56Fruit-and-Nutella pancakes supply carbohydrates, with Jordy explaining the team's two-day refueling target.
- 6:40Lunch is a grilled chicken and salad sandwich with fries.
- 7:52Volkanovski plans his sleep around a late fight, aiming to rest closer to his Octagon appearance.
- 8:52After the ceremonial weigh-ins, he snacks on salt-and-vinegar chips backstage.
- 12:48The hotel buffet supplies chicken, rice, potatoes and bread for another refueling meal.
The sandwich and fries arrive with another task still to organize: sleep. Alex Volkanovski is eating again after making featherweight, but getting ready to fight means more than putting food back on the plate.
In Cooking With Volk's "What I Eat After Cutting to 145lbs for Featherweight," he explains that he wants a good sleep closer to the fight, planning his rest around a late appearance in the Octagon. It's a less obvious part of the post-weigh-in routine than the pancakes, and one the video makes room to explain.
The meals have their own schedule. Team nutritionist and cook Jordy starts with fluids and electrolytes before solid food, then builds the refueling around carbohydrates. His target across the next two days is about 12 grams per kilogram of body weight. Pancakes topped with bananas, strawberries and Nutella are doing a particular job here, not simply marking the end of a restrictive camp.
Later come a grilled chicken and salad sandwich with fries, salt-and-vinegar chips, and a hotel buffet plate of chicken, rice, potatoes and bread. Volkanovski's observation along the way is brief: "I haven't been full for a while."
The video has reached roughly 1.3 million views. Among the comments is a useful request for the other half of this story: what his daily meals look like during the cut, rather than afterward. That contrast is already visible in his earlier goat-curry upload, where the camp meal was portioned down to the gram.
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Jordy serves the pancakes with bananas, strawberries and Nutella.