rest of the family eats. Most families of wrestlers won’t torture the wrestler by eating something that the wrestler wants, but can’t have. When a wrestler reduces calorie intake, it can affect what the rest of the family eats as well. Weight loss in wrestlers can also affect their families because wrestlers usually like to isolate themselves when cutting weight. As previously stated, when a wrestler severely reduces calorie intake, they tend to get irritable and have a poor attitude about certain things. According to Clarke Brown, a wrestler usually does not want to socialize, so they might just go up in their room and not want to talk to anyone. When cutting weight, a wrestler is in his own world at home and likes to isolate himself from the rest of his family. Weight management in wrestling can affect the family as well as the wrestler. Weight loss in wrestling can affect …show more content…
The drive to compete can encourage wrestlers to lose weight, whether or not they have excessive body fat (Perriello 58). The major motivation for wrestlers to lose weight is the hope of achieving greater success at a lower weight class. According to Vito Perriello, “the perception may be based on the myth that wrestling at a lower weight for the same height improves leverage and provides an advantage over one’s opponent.”(58). Another reason wrestlers may drop to a lower weight class is to avoid competing against a wrestler in the athlete’s more natural weight who is significantly better or to help the team fill an empty spot. Although most wrestlers like to try and lose weight, there is no reason to believe that wrestling performance will improve simply by losing weight (Wrestling Nutrition and Weight Control). A major reason wrestlers decide to drop a weight class is because they believe they will be stronger and they may need to avoid tougher
In conclusion, wrestlers should not cut weight rapidly or starve themselves. It can lead to psychological damage, damage to the wrestler’s current body, and their future health. They are willing to risk their lives, but we all should want them to rethink before they do such a thing. We need to show our care and compassion for saving a life. Coaches could take the next step and punish a wrestler for loosing weight too fast and make them sit out. Coaches should also educate the team on how to eat nutritiously and safely. All in all, the behavior of wrestlers has improved in the past twenty years, but there is more that everyone can do to help stop the cutting of weight.
In a news report by The Minnesota Daily, Dr. David Wang said, "the deaths most likely were a result of the weight-cutting process" (Younge, 1998). Assistant Coach for the Gophers, Marty Morgan, defends the medically unpopular methods for cutting weight saying, "the medical world wants this [the deaths] to be wrestling related, and the way we cut weight, because for years they've wanted to ban this, and outlaw it and change it" (Younge, 1998). Although many plead for research and scientific data on the matter, Dr. Wang believes the medically community will not be the one to furnish the information (Younge, 1998). The human subjects committee would never allow such dangerous practices, such as exercising in a sauna with a rubber suit on, to be implemented for scientific study (Younge,...
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 by 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.
In the late 1990s three college wrestlers died during training in a six week time period. The first suspect for the cause of death was a fairly new nutritional supplement called creatine that the three young men were believed to have been taking. Being a relatively new supplement, was it fair to point the finger at supplemental creatine use? Or was the possible side effects too much to look past? The New York Times article talks about college wrestling and the extreme efforts that the athletes take to cut weight.
Wrestlers practice countless hours on and off the mat for regulation matches no longer than six minutes. Six minutes doesn’t seem like enough time to crush a dream, but it is. Wrestlers dreams are faced with this challenge every time they step on a mat. Their dreams of success in wrestling are put to the test every match. No one else can wrestle for them but themselves. Wrestling is a good sport because it has a different level of team purity and individual intensity that separates it from other sports.
When it comes down to it everyone ends up working out because it becomes a part of their everyday life style and they enjoy doing it. A person who is slightly overweight would get into the gym for weight loss and quickly see that there are many other people around working towards the same goal. Progress becomes easier when encouragement is received from others. Whether it is said or not everyone has their own motive to go to the gym, that easily separates people in this discourse community. However, it also brings unity to their own group.
They want to look more muscular. In the passage, the author talks about how they are even mistreating their bodies with pills and supplements that aren't good for them. "Now they are developing the eating and body image disorders that we once thought only girls had. Now they are abusing steroids, measuring their own muscularity against the oiled and perfected images of professional athletes, body-builders, and Men's Health models." (Bordo 641) I see males all the time who are way too big to believe they have those bodies from just casually "working out". I can clearly tell when a male is taking some sort of unhealthy pill or drug when you can evidently see their veins outlined all over their bodies. Athletes are trained daily to have the bodies they do because of the sport they play. For example, football players are sinewy because they smash into each other to get the ball; they need to be that big. There's no need for a guy who is going to college for accounting per say, to want to be all muscle weighing 180 pounds. It's different to work out and get your body in shape, versus overworking your body, just to look good to
Ultimately, I am of the mindset that lack of conditioning, both financial and career ambitions as well as health perseverance are the main reasons athletes turn to using performance enhancing
Wrestling is more than just a sport; it is a way of life. And for those who enjoy its opportunities, it is something that takes the mind off of all of life’s troubling times, and puts one man against another to get their hand raised. Competition makes everything evolve, and there is no other sport that epitomizes what competition truly is. Wrestling spans the entire globe, and although it incorporates several different styles and many National and World events, remains overlooked by most.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has always been negligent when it came to wrestling in the past, but in 1997 when three college athletes died due to cutting weight in extreme conditions enough was enough. N.C.A.A set forth weight loss rules the following year. Each wrestler had to take a urinary test to see how much water they were drinking and they also did body fat test. After all that they calculated your minimum healthy weight and that 's as low as you could go without getting disqualified. On top of that you were only aloud to lose two pounds a week, so for ex...
"Cutting weight" is a term that refers to a wrestler's attempt to lose a certain amount of weight in order to compete in a particular weight category in wrestling competitions. Some wrestlers choose to lose weight so they can find a spot on the team, said Keith Healy, varsity wrestling coach of the nationally ranked team at Smallville High School.
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.
day to be healthy and keep the line. However, eating too much fruit, high sugar
Perform strength-training exercises at least twice a week on nonconsecutive days. (See References 3) Working against resistance stimulates muscle tissue. Maintaining and building muscle tissue during weight lo...