There are many things you can do to keep yourself injury free for your career. You have …show more content…
If you go from working out every day and pushing your body to the limit, to doing nothing and eat junk food and drinking sodas then you will gain a lot of weight. Then when you finally start back Wrestling and working out hard you could be more prone to injury. Most good wrestlers would join an offseason club or group. That way you can still practice and get better in the offseason, and still exercise. I know this from my own experience. After my freshman year I did nothing and I gain weight. Then the next season the first couple of weeks were really bad, my body was not use to exercising like that. It took me a while to get back to my weight class. After my sophomore year, I went to an offseason club “Backyard Wrestling” and I wrestled for them all summer long. I maintained my weight and got even better the next season. I went from not starting to being a team captain and one match away from making a states. Also from sophomore year to this year I have a lot less injuries. This year I didn’t even have an injury all season and i think wrestling over the summer really helped that. When you’re not working out or wrestling in the offseason rest and ice up. You don’t get this chance a lot when it’s wrestling season so takes advantage of it. I’m not saying just sit around all day long but every now and then just take a day off and