How To Increase Your Energy for Wrestling!

by Steve Preston

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If you check out the daily meal plan for most school-aged wrestlers

you might be shocked.

There are a lot of misconceptions about food and more specifically, ENERGY.

Many wrestlers cut weight through severe methods that involve starving the

body of valuable nutrients and then making up for it by consuming 'energy drinks'.

I don't like energy drinks for wrestlers that I work with.

* Energy drinks don't really give you energy.They are simply produced to give

you a rush of sugar and to stimulate the central nervous system so that a false-feeling

of energy is there.The problem is that over time you become reliant on these and continue

to starve, dehydrate and jog excessively to make weight each week.

Over the course of a few weeks this leads to atrophied (less) muscle, and a

weakened condition.

The other problem with energy drinks is that they continue to dehydrate the muscle cells.

If you've wrestled while dehydrated you know how weak you feel.

The answer lies in consuming the right calories at the right time.

Make sure you're combining a lean protein, and a starchy carbohydrate with each meal.

Try to also include a fibrous carbohydrate with at least 2 meals daily.

You should do this 5-6 times daily. even if you're cutting weight!!

You can cut weight for wrestling and still eat good food often. just increase the

protein in the same amount that you reduce your starchy carbohydrate.

This will keep you strong, and still allow you to cut weight.

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