Diet leading up to a competition...and warmups.

[JusticeZero]

for the life of me idk why he dislikes drinking water...his shirt is soaked after every practice.

Have you asked him? It could be any of a number of things. Does he drink water normally?

Might be the flavor, if it's not his usual habit - people get out of the habit of drinking water if there's too many sweet beverages and coffees and teas and other things with addictive chemicals like caffiene, sugar, etc in them. People think "But water has no flavor!" which is not completely true. You can recognize the difference between it and not-water, and you can tell the difference between waters from different places.

Try splashing a bit of lime juice or some other juice - just a splash, though, because you want it still to be 'water'- into some water and see how that goes.

If your local water is chlorinated, you can clear the chlorine by letting it sit in an open container in the fridge; chlorine is a gas, and it comes out of water the same way that soda goes flat if left open.

[Evil Dave]

FYI: We had a surprise tourney that was announced to us on Friday...(event was on Sunday)

So I decided to go carbo load.

Pancakes and blueberries for Saturday breakfast. Pasta with chunky red sauce with shredded chicken for lunch...and dinner. (I made a massive amount at lunch time and was lazy that night) Had pancakes and fruit the morning of the competition as well.

We got there at 10:30 am...found out he wasn't fighting until afternoon...so to keep his belly from grumbling but not stuff him...we split a hotdog at noon. He fought at 2:30 and did very well. He had more energy than usual imo and I will now carbo load the day before until it proves non-helpful.

The best way to 'carbo load' is through increasing his daily caloric intake verse overloading the day before an event. If you need to carbo load for a specific event, then start about a week before the event as your tapering down the training and the day or two before the event you actually drop back to a regular diet. You've got the right idea for event day, not overloading and simple foods that don't get his system worked up.