For any wrestler, it is a long and excruciating process, but well worth the pain to reach his goal: to be a State Champion. Before the wrestling season, a wrestler needs to be mentally, and physically prepared. This journey is anything, but easy and sometimes to have the most success, wrestlers must cut weight. The wrestler has to create goals through exercise, dieting, weight checks, while remaining mentally motivated. Sticking with these goals will determine how the individual season ends.
The first step to maintaining the goal weight is getting enough exercise. Many times throughout the day, I must fit in my exercises. The first one of the day begins when my alarm sounds at 6:30 a.m. Before school starts, and any of my classmates are even awake, I unwillingly go for a quick …show more content…
While piling a small salad and crisp apple together on my tray, many friends tease, saying, “Why would you cut weight? Just eat some food!” But I constantly ignore them and remember the set goals, I head to the locker room again.
During lunch, I sit on the locker room bench and I munch on my small salad and half of an apple. I must check my weight after every single bite. In the blink of an eye, my weight shoots back up, and I throw the rest of the apple in the trash. Taking a sip from the water fountain, I head back to class to try to get my mind of my weight. Swallowing the water is not an option. Every tenth of a pound is a struggle for a lean and mean young wrestler, meaning, only very little water can travel down my throat.
Later at home, the scale reads I am too heavy, and cannot eat much for supper, so another small salad is necessary. The more I eat, the more I will have to run, so I eat one piece of meat as the rest of my family scarfs down their meat, potatoes and green beans. They seem so cruel eating in front of me, but I remind myself it is my own choice and
The first step to maintaining the goal weight is getting enough exercise. Many times throughout the day, I must fit in my exercises. The first one of the day begins when my alarm sounds at 6:30 a.m. Before school starts, and any of my classmates are even awake, I unwillingly go for a quick …show more content…
While piling a small salad and crisp apple together on my tray, many friends tease, saying, “Why would you cut weight? Just eat some food!” But I constantly ignore them and remember the set goals, I head to the locker room again.
During lunch, I sit on the locker room bench and I munch on my small salad and half of an apple. I must check my weight after every single bite. In the blink of an eye, my weight shoots back up, and I throw the rest of the apple in the trash. Taking a sip from the water fountain, I head back to class to try to get my mind of my weight. Swallowing the water is not an option. Every tenth of a pound is a struggle for a lean and mean young wrestler, meaning, only very little water can travel down my throat.
Later at home, the scale reads I am too heavy, and cannot eat much for supper, so another small salad is necessary. The more I eat, the more I will have to run, so I eat one piece of meat as the rest of my family scarfs down their meat, potatoes and green beans. They seem so cruel eating in front of me, but I remind myself it is my own choice and