Cutting Weight

[JadeDragon]

Bah! Kids today are too pampered and protected!

I agree. kids are to pampered now days. When I wrestled in high school and we would be running before we did our exercises the coach would smack us with these leather straps that kept the wrestling mats rolled up if we weren't running fast enough for him. As we would run/jog past us he would whip it at our thigh or ass as we passed him.

My daughter just broke her nose... She gets clean clothes and an icepack.

Spoiled brat. I should have made her finish the day in her bloody outfit.

That's what the Tide marker is for. To get out those stains right away so you can go back to what it is your doing.

Its the weakening of society, I tell ya!

Our society has gotten weak. It's from a combination of things such as watching to much Mr. Rogers, home schooling, putting kids in time out rather than spanking them, and try to be to compaaaasionate towards others feelings (being P.C.)

[Bill_1]

My scale was pretty old,I wanted to have some breathing room. After that meet I gained 1-2 pounds.

[jubaji]

Why would you go to 116 if you wrestled 119?

[Bill_1]

I had trouble staying off the chips/cookies. I went from 121 to 116 and wrestled 119 pounds. I just didn't drink pop or much water and didn't have any snacks. I just ate what was for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

[IPON]

I didn't have to cut that much....actually it was going up in weight if needed that was an issue. But I remember chewing gum/spitting or holding hands under warm water (not sure how but it worked) was good for 1/4 lb or so

[jubaji]

"Killed" is not particularly common. Its more a matter of long term health effects.

[OnegaishiMasu]

When I wrestled in high school in Maine, just a few years back, cutting weight was a pretty normal thing, but not extreme by any means.

Wearing sweat suits and running, spitting into a cup on the busride, etc. Now they have the bodyweight indexes that tells them how much weight their are allowed to cut.

As I am also a referee, we are required to stop someone from cutting weight if we see it.

In my opinion, shedding a pound or two before the match wont hurt, its all water anyway. Its the 10-20 lbs that kids try to lose that end up getting them killed.

[jubaji]

I'm also in the don't cut weight bandwagon, if your already at the minimum 7% body fat cutting water just demolishes your strength. your better off just getting a tougher workout routine to get your self in shape for the next weight class. Remember that as you train your always going to gain weight from your muscle tissue getting bigger so trying to reverse that process just seems stupid to me.

Like I said before, if you have some time (say 12 hours or so) to recover cutting can give you a significant advantage at the level where the competition is pretty tight.

[bashy]

I'm also in the don't cut weight bandwagon, if your already at the minimum 7% body fat cutting water just demolishes your strength. your better off just getting a tougher workout routine to get your self in shape for the next weight class. Remember that as you train your always going to gain weight from your muscle tissue getting bigger so trying to reverse that process just seems stupid to me.

[jubaji]

Its the weakening of society, I tell ya!

[Tant01]

My daughter just broke her nose... She gets clean clothes and an icepack.

Spoiled brat. I should have made her finish the day in her bloody outfit.

[jubaji]

Bah! Kids today are too pampered and protected!

[Eagleye]

The thing is, depending on how much time you have after a weigh-in to rehydrate and eat and rest, cutting can be a significant advantage. Its certainly not healthy, but if you want to win you want to win.

Nowadays, most weigh-ins are same-day to discourage cutting like we used to do.

now theres alot more rules the coaches have to follow to make sure their wrestlers arent cutting too much weight. theres like a chart you have to follow.

[Eagleye]

wrestling is a different kind of weight cutting. Harsher.

A wrestler has to weigh in several times per week in the heart of the season.

[jubaji]

The thing is, depending on how much time you have after a weigh-in to rehydrate and eat and rest, cutting can be a significant advantage. Its certainly not healthy, but if you want to win you want to win.

Nowadays, most weigh-ins are same-day to discourage cutting like we used to do.