Of the 258,000 athletes that wrestle in high school, only 7,408 are able to continue their career as a wrestler in college (NCAA 1). These 2.7% of wrestlers are faced with multiple adversities from making weight, to the long seven minutes of nonstop action on the mat. Although the seven minutes go buy quick when spectating, when you 're on the mat it seems never ending. A lot of work goes behind ones success on the mat. To be successful in college wrestling on must cut weight efficiently, lift weights, and warm up effectively before every match.Among college wrestlers, cutting weight is a big part of their lives. College wrestlers often believe that cutting weight will improve their chances of winning. They do this be dehydrating themselves before weigh ins, then shortly after weigh ins replenishing their fluids as fast as possible. For this technique to be effective the athletes must do it right. If not done right, the wrestler will only weaken or fatigue themselves before the competition. As the college wrestler rushes to replenish his water, electrolytes, and glycogen after weigh ins, they think by competition they will be hydrated and that their muscles will be fueled again, but it does not work that way. Replenishing body fluids takes 24-48 hours, and muscle glycogen replenishment can can up to 72 hours. Not only does cutting weight have short term effects, but has long term effects as well. This includes organ damage, eating disorders, and unhealthy eating habits.
Physiologically there are many benefits to consistent weight training. This includes muscle size, tone, and overall strength. Not only this but lifting weights has also been shown to improve psychological health as well. This is done by increasing self-esteem, conf...
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...ic to get focused in on their match, and to motivate them as well. As mentioned, most importing reason for doing a warm up is to prevent injury during competition. Warming up the muscles will prevent injuries such as hamstring tears and other types muscle strains.
College wrestling is a rough sport, and a lot has to be done if they want to be successful from hours of training, to a healthy diet. It sounds very simple, but it 's a lot more than that. A college wrestler has to participate in long practices, while not being able to replenish body fluids and calories after. This and things such as lifting weights on extra time, and not eating that cookie at lunch. Finally the wrestler makes weight and they have competition. To do well in the competition the wrestler need to warm up and get his mind right. These are all things a college wrestler must do to be successful.
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Cutting weight is a common practice in the sport of wrestling. In fact, wrestlers have been shedding pounds to qualify for lower weight classes since the NCAA made wrestling a sport in 1928. Prior to any match, disciplined wrestlers will subject themselves to grueling workouts in rubber suits and overheated rooms. The wrestlers try to sweat the weight off, risking severe dehydration all for the sake of winning. Unfortunately, 21-year-old Jeff Reese, and two other wrestlers, died before he reached the wrestling mat. Doctors reported that Reese died from a heart malfunction and kidney failure (Younge, 1998).
... and motivation to prepare athletes for competitive events and gain strength to get back to competing. Many times, they will conduct training camps, skill improvement courses, clinics, preseason workouts and tryouts, and training programs based on teams and individuals in specific sports.
Think about the four major sports in America: football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. Football players perform once a week. Hockey and basketball players work from 2-4 times a week. Baseball players may play up to five games a week, but the physicality of that sport is much lower than the other three (especially football and hockey). Now, how often do professional wrestlers perform? Well, for example, the World Wrestling Federation performs three weekly shows: Raw on Mondays, Smackdown! on Thursdays, and Heat on Sundays. In addition, each month there is a Pay-Per-View event on a single Sunday. Now, that means 3-4 times per week, already even with hockey and basketball players.
Research shows that taking pre-workout supplements achieves at least one of these two goals: it boosts muscle strength and power through more intense workouts and/or it improves your physical and mental energy to overcome any intellectual road blocks and enhances mind and muscle connection.
Should college athletes be required to graduate with a degree, before they go to the pro’s? I believe that all colleges should make it mandatory for their student athletes to graduate before they are allowed to go to the pro’s. Only a small percentage of student athletes go on to have a career in professional sports after college. The few that are lucky enough to make it to the pro’s usually end up playing for a couple of years and then end up not being able to find work. College athletes should be required to obtain degree’s because not only does it allow you to have something to fall back on if you can’t make it to the pro’s, but it also can show pro sports teams that you are a mature individual, and your education is important to you as well.
It is very clear that college athletes are very devoted and committed adults. It is also very easy to see that these young adults are swamped with practice and game schedules. Many people don’t realize exactly how much time is devoted to practices. An article by O'Shaughnessy (2011) provides a run down of how much time each athlete puts into different sports. Division I baseball players spend 42.1 hours a week practicing on the field.(O'Shaughnessy, 2011) Divi...
The first reason that kids should consider joining wrestling is that they will feel healthy and become physically and mentally fit. Wrestling is listed as one of the top ten toughest sports. It makes participants physically fit and healthy because the body needs vital nutrients such as Vitamin B to wrestle other people. You can also become more physically fit because you jog up to three to four mile every practice, and you lift people your weight or a little heavier or just lift the weights provided in your gym/wrestling room. Childhood obesity has double in children and quadrupled in adolescence in the last thirty years. If kids would become more involved in physical sports like wrestling, they would be more likely to lose weight. Kids who participate in sports are 33% less likely to become obese. Also, if you wrestle you can build on your mental strength because if you think in your mind that you’re gonna lose you’re more likely to lose than win but, if you think your gonna win you have a higher chance to win. Another way to get mentally tough is to set goals for yourself because when you set goals you get stuck on achieving your goal In wrestling and, you have to wear singlets that are really tight and to me it makes you sweat more so you lose more water weight. About a quarter of the young wrestlers lost 10 pounds or more during the season, and 11% fasted longer than 2...
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People all over the world like to watch sports, but is it worth the money and entertainment it provides if the athletes die for it? Wrestling is one of the sports where athletes inflict self harm through extreme weight loss. What motivates these athletes attempt such a life-threatening weight loss technique, a spot on their college wrestling team. This prompts athletes to go on an extreme workout plan that put their lives at risk. Why is the NCAA allowing this to happen? Three athletes have already lost their lives through extreme dieting, how many more have to die before the NCAA does something about this? If this continues, wrestling shouldn't even be a sport anymore. The NCAA needs to ban all extreme weight loss techniques.
I admit that working out is good for you, weight training can benefit any individual because you can lose weight, build strength and tone or find a challenging workout just to keep you motivated. It is important to live a healthy, active lifestyle but overtraining is not the right way to do it. Going to the gym and working out every day is bad for you. Your body will feel like a complete mess and growing up it will only get worse without any rest days. If you lift too much weights, there is a higher risk of injury and your body will be very sore, let alone lifting every day. It is important to not train every day because you will be tired all the time, working out too much takes up other free time, and your muscles need time to recover.
I believe that fitness has a greater impact on you mentally than it does physically. Fitness releases chemicals that cause you to feel better instantaneously, improving mood for 24 hours. Fitness makes you more confident and improves your self-esteem, key for ridding anxiety and depression. Fitness makes you set goals for yourself, motivating you to improve yourself everyday. It gives you a boost of energy after, making you feel like you can conquer the world, or to just do your homework.
When they see the wrestlers they are so much bigger than they thought. The wrestlers have big and powerful wrestlers. They are always in top condition. The smaller wrestlers still have muscles but they are not as powerful as the bigger ones. The smaller wrestlers rely on their speed to win their matches.
The benefits of strength training not only include increased physical strength, but the ability to negate or control certain disease's while improving conditions associated with aging.
Physical fitness have numerous benefits including muscle strength, muscular endurance, brain activity, preventing obesity and lowering risk or major body problems. Reduces gaining weight, improves losing weight and less likely to have accidents later in life. Also improves ones lifespan, living a healthier life and improves sleeping. Physical activity helps reduce ones stress, anxiety, and depression also improves over all life. A half hour or so of physical activity daily can yield benefits. Also can improve ones flexibility (Brezina), which can effe...