Joined: Mar 31, Messages: 4, Likes Received: 0. You usually weight in in the mornings. Depends on the competition venue. In multi-day tournaments i. SuperSuperRambo , Mar 25, PolishHeadlock , Mar 25, Joined: Nov 28, Messages: 2 Likes Received: 0. You will vomit it out. Even with the best practices though, not all recovery happens smoothly. Even though Vinesh Phogat moved up from the 48kg division to the 50kg category and now the 53kg division, she still admits she finds it hard to recover.
But for at least the first couple of bouts it will be difficult. It will be difficult to focus. Sometimes the opponent looks blurred because your eyes can't focus," she says.
In a process of fine margins, even the slightest variable can wreck plans. Flight disruptions caused by the pandemic meant the Indian team would reach Almaty on the day of the competition. This meant that rather than recover quickly, Seema, who normally weighs about 56kg, had to bring her weight down to 50kg and then maintain it for two days.
It was a terrible situation to be in, and it showed. I didn't even know where I was. I was trying my percent in each bout but my body just wasn't responding. My heart was saying 'yes, I can do it', but neither my mind nor my body was supporting me," she says.
There can be more serious issues too. If you cut weight too drastically, you will end up having kidney issues in the long term, says Dr Kumar. An article published in Medicia - the peer reviewed scientific journal published by the Lithuanian University of health sciences, in May this year, declared that creatinine, blood urea nitrogen and urine-specific gravity values were significantly increased after Rapid Water Loss RWL.
This observation indicates that RWL caused dehydration and subsequent acute kidney damage despite various degrees of weight lost during the RWL phase, which can lead to adverse events in other body systems.
The article concluded that RWL 'is associated with significant acute kidney damage in combat sport athletes. It seems that elevated biomarkers of kidney function can be primarily attributed to intentional dehydration, which is the culprit of rapid weight loss.
At least one Indian Asian medallist has had to be admitted to the hospital in recent years for kidney issues caused by weight cuts. For women athletes, hormonal changes can occur.
Sometimes even death can occur. In , three USA collegiate wrestlers made national headlines, dying from the same cause - weight cutting within 33 days of each other. In all three cases, the students experienced dehydration resulting in hypothermia after they layered on clothes and did endless workouts in heated rooms.
Unfortunately, they out-worked their bodies. The perspiration they produced cooled them to the point of hypothermia resulting in heart attacks and kidney failure, all common effects of extreme weight cutting. There is also a serious risk of injury during competition - something that's happened to several athletes, including at the Olympics.
You aren't seeing it but you know it. But that properception depends on blood flow. So when you are dehydrated, that properception will not be accurate. That causes delayed reaction. So, when your joint is being pulled in one direction, you have a delayed reaction in pulling back if you are dehydrated. By the time you react to the stimulus, your joint has already moved beyond what it is capable of and you pick up an injury.
For some athletes the advantage of forcing their bodies to a lighter weight division eventually isn't worth it. Boxing's Vikas Krishan Yadav used to compete in the 60kg division, but after a particularly brutal weight cut sent him to the hospital, he has refused to even attempt curtailing his weight since - he moved up to the 69kg and subsequently 75kg division.
He's now competing in the 69kg division once again - a process that he manages simply through heavier training. Vinesh too made the decision to move up to the 53kg division, after realising the cut to 50kg was having too much of an impact on performance. Others don't have that option. They cut around seven to eight kilograms before a competition. Earlier, the weigh ins were done a day prior to competition but if the new rule comes into effect, the wrestlers will have to weigh in on the morning of the competition and if they qualify for the final or repechage rounds, they have to weigh in again the next day.
It is difficult to not eat and wrestle. Our wrestles have good conditioning, but this will affect them. Earlier, they cut weight and then ate a lot after weigh-in. The Indian wrestlers reduce more weight for a competition as they take part in fewer meets. Hence, they find it difficult to maintain weight over a period of time. In contrast, the wrestlers in the United States maintain their weight at a constant level as they participate in more competitions in a similar period.
Tournament organizers may sometimes group wrestlers less formally in an attempt to even out the number of wrestlers per competitive group. For example, if 24 wrestlers weighing to pounds, five wrestlers weighing 98 to 99 pounds, and 3 weighing pounds weigh in, the pairing officials may split these 32 wrestlers into three groups instead of having such unbalanced numbers.
This helps everyone get in a similar number of matches and keeps the tournament from dragging on at the end while one or two weight classes have many more matches than the others.
In any case, the pairing officials will work to avoid mismatches because of excessive weight difference. Be vigilant and ask for change if there is too much disparity among athletes.
The main concern of all officials and coaches should be the safety of the wrestlers and an enjoyable competition. USA Wrestling has established youth age groups and assigned match time limits and weight classes for each group. Some state associations have expanded these to provide a framework for younger children.
See table 3. Wrestling matches are opportunities for wrestlers to translate the skills they have learned in practice into a competition with other wrestlers. Youth wrestling has two principal forms of competition: tournaments and dual meets. In tournaments, wrestlers from many clubs or teams compete in each weight class.
Often there is more than one wrestler from the same club. Team scores are not usually kept in tournaments at the youth level, but there are awards for the wrestlers who win or place in the competition. USA Wrestling tournaments do not include team scoring except at the national championship level for older age groups.
As competition moves to high school teams, tournament scoring becomes important. Dual meets are competitions between two teams. Each team enters one wrestler per weight class, and he or she wrestles an opponent in that weight class from the other team. Team scoring is the idea behind dual meets, and the winning wrestler is awarded three to six points depending on the nature of the win.
Individual points are totaled, and the team with the most points wins the dual competition. Although weight classes are different for different ages, the system for entering athletes into competitions is the same for all levels.
In a dual meet, each team may enter one wrestler in each weight class. The same is true for invitational tournaments, where teams are invited and each enters one wrestler per weight class.
However, in open tournaments, a school or club may enter as many wrestlers as it wishes, and wrestlers can sometimes enter as individuals, without club or team membership. Clubs that host tournaments can make fliers available at other competitions, send fliers to the coaches of other clubs, and advertise in wrestling publications or on Web sites. Ads should specify location, rules to be observed, age groups competing, time and place of weigh-ins, and time and place of the competition.
Generally, only statewide championships and USA Wrestling regional and national competitions require preregistration. Events sanctioned by USA Wrestling require that competitors hold an athlete membership card, and this must be presented when making an entry.
This may be true of other governing bodies as well.
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