WEIGHT REGULATION AND RULES OF ALIMENTATION FOR HIGH-LEVEL WRESTLERS

• Main Author: Mališa Radović
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Montenegrin Sports Academy and Faculty for Sport and Physical Education 2008-08-01
• Series: Sport Mont
• Subjects: weight; alimentation; training; dehidratation; calories; water; result
• Online Access: http://www.sportmont.ucg.ac.me/clanci/SportMont_Avg_2008_Radovic_253-260.pdf

Loosing weight in order to participate in lower categories represents one of the difficult issues which are taking place in this kind of sport from the initiation of weight categories. Rarely happens that wrestler has an ideal weight for definite categorie and there is always thought that in lower categories they can make better results. Many studies and publications have considered risks and damaging consequences on the health because of rapid loose of weight in wrestling sport.The wrestlers that have been submitted to loose weight in order to achieve high sports results, subdue necessary nutritious elements from their organisms.Some athletes care less for the right nutriment, the others are not sure what to use in that case.Usually sportsmen consider food and water as the agents that are needed to gain weight,but they are forgetting that food brings nutritious elements which their organism is using as fuel.The sportsmen that are often under loose weight regime do not deny to their organism nutritious substances needed for wrestling training.