Hey Katrina, I was going to PM you about this, I watched a thing on CMT last night about college wrestlers, something about real life. Watch it if you get a chance, reminded me of stupid things we did to make weight, diuretics, ExLax, starving, dehydrating, running in rubber suits, spitting into cans, it is nuts, I lived throught it, some don't. This kids point was, why don't we as wrestlers go up a weight instead of going down one, we can eat, lift weights and gain strength, we will have endurance and the strength to beat up on somebody who is starving themselves to death. We will not be scaring our bodies for life, we will enjoy ourselves during wrestling, not enduring. I never wrestled my senior year because I was sick and tired of beefing up for football and then spending the winter eating nothing, to the point of passing out, then spending spring lifting weights to get back into shape for football. Taking your body to the extremes is not good for anyone. This kid in this documentary said,"eat a good breakfast of things like wheat germ, honey, eggs (Kill more chickens that way) give yourself some energy to live on, something to get the metabolism going, every morning, eat alot of fruit some lean meat and you can kick anybodies butt in the next highest weight class cause they are starving themselves and they have no more energy and they want this thing to get over so they can eat again. I wish someone would have had that mentality a long time ago.
Pass this along if you would, it all makes more sense to me and I would not have to see anymore kids trying to kill themselves to make weight, especially young kids who are still growing. My sermon for the evening. Amen :wink:
