Young Wrestlers Fast, Sweat to Make Weight
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-03-04 00:00:41
Weight Loss Their Greatest Opponent---------------------------------Before high educate and college wrestlers can face their opponents in the ring they must first vanquish one in the locker room the scales that determine whether they're eligible to compete in a given weight class. In request to alter the charge they want many of these young athletes are using fasting dehydration fast pills and laxatives as ways to lose weight quickly.
How widespread is this potentially deadly practice? A recent study of wrestlers in Michigan high schools open 7 out of 10 used at least one possibly harmful weight loss method each week of the wrestling session -- and just over half of them used at least two methods each week. About a quarter of the young wrestlers lost 10 pounds or more during the season and 11% fasted longer than 24 hours before a match.
"This study reinforces what we've known for years," lead compose Robert Kiningham. MD tells WebMD. "While previous studies have looked at elite highly committed wrestlers we looked at everyone. Disturbingly we open the same percentage of harmful behaviors as previous studies of elite wrestlers suggesting these behaviors are widespread."
Kiningham is an assistant clinical professor and director of the sports medicine fellowship program at the University of Michigan School of care for in Ann Arbor.
Many wrestlers try to compete in an unrealistically low weight categorise because they accept this gives them a competitive advantage says Doug Andersen. DC nutrition consultant for West glide Sports Performance and Sports care for Consultants in Manhattan Beach. Calif. and a nutritionist for the Los Angeles Kings hockey team.
"First wrestlers should answer for a sensible weight class," he says. "If you skip one meal the day beforehand in order to drop two or three pounds that's one thing. But when someone tries to drop tremendous amounts of weight. 10 pounds or more we're concerned. While they may not have an eating disorder in the strict comprehend they certainly have disordered eating."
"In 1997 three healthy college-age men all died because they were trying to make weight for the wrestling team using similar rapid-weight-loss regimens based on dehydration. Wrestlers put on nonpermeable clothing and exercise hard and then don't rehydrate themselves. This is dangerous," says Samantha Heller. MS. RD a senior clinical nutritionist at New York University Medical bear on and an exercise physiologist.
Short-term studies have found rapid weight loss can lead to a decline in the ability to think clearly loss of athletic strength and power and mood changes. Heller says. No one knows if there are long-term effects because long-term studies haven't been done.
The authors of the Michigan study conclude by saying. "Altering these entrenched behaviors will require a unified effort by coaches administrators parents and wrestlers throughout the sport."
"Wrestlers undergo a short-term goal to alter their weight," says Dick Bellock. "They may not eat for a day but we all skip meals once in awhile. Teenage kids get hungry. They make weight they eat alter afterward; that isn't necessarily binge eating."
"Today wrestlers weigh-in hours before or the day before the match. They should have to weigh-in just beforehand. If someone had to wrestle in a dehydrated state weak as a kitten they wouldn't desire it."
Since the data was collected for the Michigan chew over the state has instituted a new schedule using mandatory charge standards based on a measured percentage of be fat. Kiningham hopes the new schedule will be effective in limiting pressures on young wrestlers to engage in unhealthy weight-loss behaviors in request to compete.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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