How To Cut Weight For Highschool Wrestling

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How to cut weight for high school wrestling. Well you could actually call it an “ART” due to the intense and strenuous mental and physical conditions you put yourself through. There are many ways to cut weight, you have to watch what you eat and drink, run and be in great mental condition.

First of all, you have to watch what you eat. You can’t eat fatty, or sugary foods, or foods high in carbohydrates. A good suggestion is eating fresh fruits and vegetables, because they have no fat in them, but they do contain sugars but there are different kinds of sugars and these sugars give you energy and they burn off fast .The only thing you should drink is water and you can only drink that in moderation, because water is very heavy, you can very easily drink too much water without even realizing it. Water weighs approximately eight and a half pounds per gallon so as you can see it starts to add up quickly. Ice cubes are good because they are full with air and water so they don’t weigh that much and they cool you down during strenuous workouts. Another important thing you have to remember is every pound of food you drink is another pound you have to lose.

Secondly, you have to run in plastics or in a plastic suit, which can be bought for about ten dollars at Wal-Mart (Which is illegal so you can not be caught by a referee). You have to put the plastic suit on the inside layer so it cuts off the oxygen level to your skin, which then tends to open up your pores to make you sweat faster. Then you put two or three more layers of sweats and a beanie on and go for your run. You like running outside, because the atmosphere changes, but if it is too cold to run outside then run on a treadmill inside (a good way to tell if it is too cold is if you can see your breath then go inside). A good run is about 3 miles outside or for twenty minutes on a treadmill inside at a time until you get down to the desired weight. Before you run again i...