Many wrestlers feel that they need to lose that extra body fat to cut down to a lower body weight and have used unhealthy and potentially dangerous weight loss methods. The following procedures were developed to prevent risk to health. These procedures are based on measurement of your body composition so that if you want to lose weight, it will be fat weight - not water and not muscle (which are both important for optimal performance).
Your body is composed of fat tissue as well as lean tissue which includes muscle, bone, and water. The best way to lose weight and not impair performance is to lose fat tissue and maintain lean tissue. The American College of Sports Medicine and The American Academy of Pediatrics have set 5% as the minimum percent body fat for males to insure good health. Having less than 5% body fat can lead to serious health consequences and impaired performance. Your body fat will be assessed at the start of the season using either skin fold measures or hydrostatic weighing. A skin fold is the layer of fat over your muscles. Skin fold measurements are taken from 3 sites on your body, and the measures are put into an equation that will predict your percent body fat. Hydrostatic weighing is a technique where you are weighed under water. The principle behind this measurement is that different materials (like fat and muscle) will displace water differently. Hydrostatic weighing is more accurate than skinfold measures.
The following methods were put in place to establish a weight class that you can.
comfortably maintain over an entire season. This method is based on determining your minimal safe and healthy body weight at a percent body fat no lower than 5%. However, it is important for you to note that there is no scientific evidence that you will perform any better at 5% body fat than at 8% or 10% body fat. During the first week or the season, you will have your body weight and body composition determined.
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