The scale is the one thing no fighter can intimidate. It doesn’t flinch, it doesn’t negotiate, and it doesn’t care how talented you are. From the outside, cutting weight may seem simple. But the reality is, a poor weight cut can completely derail a fighter — undermining their strategy, their strength, their stamina, and the months of work that go into it.
Arman isn’t just gifted, he’s built like someone biology overachieved on. His VO₂ Max lives in a tier endurance labs brag about. His power output registers in a range heavyweights envy. And his aerobic and anaerobic capacities? They don’t look learned — they look engineered.
But even with all that firepower, he’s felt a weight cut slip into dangerous territory:
The kind where making weight becomes less like a step in the preparation process and more like the full-blown fight.
This time around he shut the door on chance and, instead, opened a (garage) door with the coach who never guesses.
The result of Arman’s UFC Qatar weigh-in wasn’t luck, it was controlled; control of numbers, control of variables, control of a process that rarely gives athletes any. He didn’t just make 156lbs, he arrived there on his terms.
So the real story isn’t that he made weight — It’s how he and Coach Cal turned an unpredictable process into a repeatable one.
Arman Tsarukyan walked into this fight camp with elite physiology and elite discipline. Coach Cal came in with a system built to take elite physiology and actually use it. It wasn’t about grinding harder, sweating more, or suffering through the final 72 hours. It was about matching biology to strategy so the weight cut didn’t drain Arman before fight night — it prepared him.
Coach Cal doesn’t build programs based on intuition. He builds them around measurable truths — numbers, patterns, metabolic responses, hydration curves, hormonal timing, recovery thresholds. The science comes first, the structure follows, and the athlete’s compliance determines the ceiling.
And that’s exactly what Arman did — he followed the plan. No shortcuts, no improv, no ego.
That’s the combination most fighters never experience — the athlete and the architect operating from the same plan, at the same speed, with the same goal.
A successful weight cut isn’t the result of eating less, sweating more, or surviving the final few days. It’s the outcome of a system — one that reads the body, responds to it, and protects it every step of the way.
“I never guess. The Treigning Lab never guesses.”
A weight cut only becomes predictable when the athlete’s physiology sets the pace. Before any changes in food, water, or training intensity, Arman’s physiology was mapped in full: How his engine burned oxygen, how his metabolism handled workload, how his mineral levels balanced under stress, how his hydration curve responded across days, and how his systems recovered between efforts. Even the subtleties mattered — kidney conductance, fatigue patterns, hormonal rhythm, energy output optimization.
This data became their instruction manual.
That’s why this weight cut was so successful — because it was designed with Arman’s biology in mind, with knowledge of exactly how his body would respond before the first pound ever came off.
“The body tells what it can handle. My job is to listen.”
Once the data established Arman’s physiological baseline, every training decision was built around it — Not forced onto it, not guessed above it.
Aligned with it.
Weight cuts fall apart when training intensity and weight descent fight each other. That’s why Coach Cal adjusted Arman’s sessions day by day — sometimes hour by hour — based on his energy output windows, his cardiovascular readiness, his fatigue patterns, and the thresholds he could hit without compromising the cut.
His training wasn’t linear, it wasn’t rigid, and it wasn’t dictated by a schedule taped to the wall.
It was reactive, responsive, and methodically periodized into phases, mesocycles, and microcycles — each one designed to keep Arman powerful while moving him toward 156 without stripping him down in the process.
The goal was never for him to survive the cut; it was to preserve the skill, the strength, and the strategy that got him to this level in the first place.
“Nutrition is never arbitrary.”
Coach Cal’s nutrition programs are built intentionally and in tandem with his training systems.
Arman’s HTMA results, bloodwork, metabolic rate, mineral rhythm, and recovery markers weren’t just reviewed; they were corroborated into a single nutritional strategy designed to keep his body responsive while the weight trended down. Following The Treigning Lab’s 50:1 nutritional regimen — a macro structure calibrated to stabilize metabolic rate, preserve performance output, and keep mineral balance from collapsing under the demands of his weight cut — Arman’s weight cut moved forward without ever forcing his body into panic mode.
Every adjustment served a specific biological reason.
And that’s why he walked into fight week with the confidence of an athlete whose system was stable — not scrambling.
“Recovery isn’t optional — it’s the glue that holds the physiology together.”
Recovery is what keeps the entire system from collapsing under the weight of the cut (Yes, pun intended).
Many fighters treat recovery as something they do if and when they feel like they need it. Coach Cal, on the other hand, schedules it as if the cut depends on it. Why? Every training session, every calculated overload, every nutritional shift created a corresponding recovery need — and those needs, identified in advance, were matched with targeted therapies to keep Arman adaptive rather than depleted.
From sleep scoring to inflammation control to nervous system regulation, nothing was left to chance. Hyperbaric oxygen sessions were used when metabolic strain peaked, red light therapy supported mitochondrial output and reduced systemic inflammation, compression protocols kept circulation efficient, and each modality was implemented deliberately — never sprinkled in as a wellness “extra.”
Because without engineered restoration, even the most compliant athlete will hit the wall — hormonally, structurally, neurologically.
That never happened here.
And, that is why, five days out from weigh-ins — the point in camp where most athletes start breaking down — Arman’s numbers peaked.
“Red flags aren’t warnings — they’re data.”
Every variable in Arman’s cut was digitally tracked inside the TL Performance Suite. From cardiovascular output to mitochondrial readouts to exact weight trajectory, all performance variables were mapped against Coach Cal’s proprietary algorithm designed specifically for weight-class athletes.
This is where technology became the difference between reacting and directing.
If Arman’s hydration curve deviated, the app flagged it. If his energy output dipped outside the expected range, the system adjusted training loads. If recovery metrics trended down, protocols changed that same day.
The system didn’t wait for problems, it showed Coach Cal the precursors.
That foresight is what allowed every decision to match Arman’s physiology in real time. And in a sport where weight cuts collapse long before athletes realize what’s happening, his ability to see ahead — to intervene before the body spirals — is the difference between a controlled descent and a dangerous decline.
“The beauty of this weight cut wasn’t in how much weight Arman lost — it was in how much of himself he kept.”
The clarity.
The confidence.
The composure.
The full expression of a fighter whose physiology never had to compromise for performance.
That only happens when the athlete and the architect operate together:
Arman brought discipline, professionalism, and a level of physical capacity most fighters would trade years for. Coach Cal brought the system — the structure, the data, the precision, and the unwavering belief that weight cutting should never dismantle an athlete to get them to a number.
That’s why this camp never felt like a chase. Rather, it was just a continuation of the strategy Arman carries into every fight — prepare with intent, perform with purpose, and refuse to give away the part of the game most fighters lose before they ever step on the scale. By the time Arman walked onto that stage to weigh in, the work was already done — not in the final sauna session, not in a last-minute sweat, but in the weeks of decisions that honored his physiology instead of fighting it.
He didn’t just make weight.
He made good on the system Coach Cal built for him.
“The skill and the will write the checks — but the body’s got to cash them.