What Does Wrestling Mean To Me Essay

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I Believe Wrestling Is a Way of Life “Once you’ve wrestled, everything else in life is easy.”—Dan Gable. Wrestling builds character, strength, and endurance and brings lots of fun. I feel like everybody should at least try wrestling once in their life. It will make you stronger and tougher. Also, if you don't do it in high school, there will never be that chance to do it in college, and you will most likely not play sports after school, so you might as well. Wrestling is also one of the best experiences you could have, I know it was and still is for me. The feeling of going to a state tournament is very exciting. You're either wrestling to a place at state or there to cheer on your teammates. Overall, wrestling is a great sport to keep you …show more content…

By the first week, I wanted to quit because it was physically challenging. But it is a good thing I did not quit and to anyone that does try wrestling, you should not give up. The amount of conditioning you do in wrestling builds a lot of strength and it is not just the conditioning, just practicing makes you stronger. Also, Wrestling will make you want to get stronger, at least I know it did for me. After I started wrestling I began working out every day so that I could get stronger outside of wrestling and for it. So wrestling will build strength over time and help you to get stronger even when you're not at practice or during the off-season. Wrestling will build strength, but it will also build endurance. I remember not being able to wrestle a full match without having to take many breaks, but by the end of the season, I was going all 3 periods and not taking breaks. Also, I used to not run a very fast mile and was not very consistent, but now I run a 6-minute and 28-second mile and was running at a consistent speed the whole time. Finally, wrestling will not tire you easily, since you're used to wrestling long six-minute matches there is not much else that can get you as tired as that so you don't get as tired from anything

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