I assume that’s a reference to how weight brackets encourage weird crash diets to prepare for weigh-ins followed by bingeing afterwards to bulk back up. For example, the grifter who wrote The 4-Hour Work Week claimed to have cheated at a wrestling tournament with a combination of crash dieting and dehydrating himself to the point that he got into the lowest bracket at the weigh in, recovered before the actual fight, and then just used his serious weight advantage to shove his opponent out of the ring and win on a technicality.
Usually not as drastic as that guy’s story but yeah, cutting weight fucks up a lot of guys long-term and eating disorders in men are treated as a joke.
lifetime of bad knees and disordered eating
we should either ban scholastic wrestling or force everyone to make it much less seriously
The Greeks were way ahead of their time in terms of child abuse. Pederasty, wrestling, and slavery? Little Saint James archipelago
i get the knee problems but how does it impact eating?
I assume that’s a reference to how weight brackets encourage weird crash diets to prepare for weigh-ins followed by bingeing afterwards to bulk back up. For example, the grifter who wrote The 4-Hour Work Week claimed to have cheated at a wrestling tournament with a combination of crash dieting and dehydrating himself to the point that he got into the lowest bracket at the weigh in, recovered before the actual fight, and then just used his serious weight advantage to shove his opponent out of the ring and win on a technicality.
Usually not as drastic as that guy’s story but yeah, cutting weight fucks up a lot of guys long-term and eating disorders in men are treated as a joke.