In sense it’s probably good because people at full power could destroy each other while wrestling, but the need to make weigh-in makes it so that everyone’s power level is just that little bit lower so that people aren’t seriously injuring one another

even worse when you only get 3 hours of sleep because of how nervous you get.

@@EroticInferno cutting weight does way more long term damage than wrestling ever will, it’s not a dangerous sport

@@EroticInferno bruh

Genuinely curious do you guys eat anything before your tournament or no cause of how strict the weigh is?

does it work?

@@ayyjayy2583 no don’t eat bread eat high protein and fats no carbs loose water weight and starve fat

Bread retains water so it’s better if you don’t eat bread imo

@@FuzzyNuts_ yeah but it’s really light in terms of weight, only eat a little

@@ayyjayy2583 yeah i definitely made weight, i don’t recommend the things i did as they aren’t very healthy, try to cut weight the right way, but if you are in a bind, bread and water 1-2 days before weighins helps, running with a trash bag on for 10-15 minutes, chewing gum and spitting in a bottle, and lots of working out

Well if you play for your school you don’t have a choice

@@matteotamberelli2951 you don’t “play” wrestling you just wrestle. Don’t wanna cut weight then don’t cut the weight and wrestle the next guy up for his spot…how she goes

@@sirgianthammer4717 its a sport you absolutely play it.

@@daveshif2514 no one who wrestles says they play wrestling… it ain’t football lol What is someone who wrestles called? A wrestler what is someone who plays football called? A foot ball player

@@sirgianthammer4717 doesnt matter. Explain wrestling without using the word wrestle. You would have to say you are either playing, competing, or something because it isnt fighting, its a game/sport and you play a game or sport.

Thanks for the idea😂

I used to get looks in the 24 fitness sauna...fully clothed, suckin on jolly ranchers, spitting in a bottle

@@nateb4543 jolly ranchers are a life saver for cutting

​@Alberto-xz2wc Wait, what do jolly ranchers do for weight loss?

​@@gambit4373they make you salivate and don't really add calories sucks the water out of you faster. Also helps with the constant hunger

Being a heavyweight is good for not cutting, but god damn if your a heavyweight and you wrestle an inexperienced kid. He’s gonna do a move that lands all his weight on your leg or some shit and snap it, have seen it a lot.

*Cries in lightweight*

Lol same

@@annaliemejia7792 lol same

@@Mdo-08 that’s actually what happens to our heavy weight girl recently was crazy , something with her knee was snapped 🤷🏻‍♀️

I feel this I was our 220 but was better than our 285 so sometimes I was bumped up and had to wrestle guys that had 60+ pounds on me.

This hit me in the soul. Having to be bumped up to take the harder match but have to keep making weight for 220 lmao

I wrestled a guy once at 220 lbs when I weighed 184.2 lbs at a tournament that pretty much did a round Robin. There wasn't 2 lbs allowance yet and I didn't make scratch weigh either so it was okay for me to wrestle 220. I'll never understand my coaches' logic in thinking this was okay lol.

@@Cubanburrito305 I also had a questionable coaches decision when I was in junior high. I was 12 years old and weighed 147lbs. Our team went to a tournament that had 3 age brackets, middle school, junior high, and high school. There was only 1 other junior high kid in the 150lbs class and the next weight class was 185 and it only had 2 as well. My coach wanted me to get more experience and all my competitors where very new to wrestling and not at all athletic (big round dough balls, basically). So my coach entered me into the high school age bracket. I was a 12 year old, wrestling 150lbs in a high school tournament. 3 of my opponents were seniors and the rest juniors or sophomores with no freshmen. I actually did pretty well winning my first 4 matches and getting into the semi finals. Then I was up agaisnt a giant 17 year old ginger who elbowed me in the nose after only a minute. It was bleeding too much and I had to forfeit because I couldn't get it to stop. My next match was for deciding 3rd place and this kid was very strong, with very little experience or wrestling skills. He was beating me because of the difference in strength (I was 12 and never even entered the weight room yet) and then he put me into an illegal arm bar that just happened to dislocate my shoulder. I couldn't continue the match and since it was an illegal move, I won 3rd place in the tournament. That was my first ever dislocation and for the next 4 years I was plagued by near weekly, sometimes daily, dislocations of that same shoulder. It was finally fixed after I tore my rotator cuff my junior year and had surgery. Of course, now my range of motion is reduced by a large amount

You got this bud, use your speed and agility to your advantage, exactly like how Gable Stevenson wrestles.

Bro I thought I was the only one who chewed gum when cutting for weight in 😂

He’s cutting healthily, ofc the day of you’ll eat a little less if you need to cut a pound

Yep sounds like me. Went from having a decent six pack at 145 to 126 where I was literally shredded and had to get a doctors note bc my bmi was too low. I remember having a bag of jolly ranchers I would use to create a lot of saliva in my mouth and I filled up the water bottle with spit alone. It fucked up the insides of my cheeks for a solid week. The reason I cut weight this way is because I couldn’t sweat anymore.

@@commie281 if you're not eating the day of or before a competition then you already fucked up. That's when you need the most fuel. If you can't make weight without starving yourself before competing then that weight class is too low.

I’m 228 so I’m competing in the 285 weight class in high school but I still ended up getting second place out of the 8ish schools that came there. Gonna try to drop down to 220’s by end of this year

@@theangryarabian1256 I'm in my first year(sadly also my junior year) of wrestling in high school. I was at 234 at the start of the season and had to do live matches with our heavyweight who has been wrestling for like 4 years there and was always over 280(needless to say I got my ass beat). My coach told me that I had to go against people like him unless I dropped and got to the 220 weight class. Now at weigh ins I'm like 216 and I aim to get to 195 by the end of this season and 182 next year.

@@tytdestruction7895 dude you’re putting in a shit ton of effort and the fact that you lost that much weight while the wrestling season didn’t even start that long ago is insane, you gonna dominate 💪. I’d say the only reason I did good enough in the wrestling tournament was because I go to the weight room a lot so that’s always a recommendation for heavier guys like us

@@theangryarabian1256 Thanks bro. my wrestling season has been OK so far. Not too many wins but I'm getting a good bit of mat time which I'm learning to value more. And I definitely need to hit the weights some more in my spare time. Hope you kill em this season big dawg!

This was me but at the complete opposite end of the spectrum weighing at about 290. My coach used to tell me to bring donuts so we could eat them on the bus ride to the tourney and watch everyone else run to cut weight. It honestly made me feel awful😔

Lemon and salt makes it a meal

Look at this guy over here getting to eat salad. Lol jk. My wrestling days are over but I def don’t miss the weight cuts. Good luck bud. Drink your vitamins.

ever notice when your hungry asf and everything healthy you normally dont eat is amazing? That was me back in them hs days wrestling

So leaves

Lettuce is just normally so good, I eat heads of lettuce regularly by themselves

Seems like but thankfully ain’t

it really isn’t, which really isn’t what you’d expect. having a regular schedule when you can and cannot eat a lot and a little helps your body maintain a regular routine.

I had an awful coach who would try to inflict EDs on the team to encourage cutting. I was showing up to 4 hr practices running on just water and a banana.

@@emmettt.377 these are the kinds of people who ruin wrestling and mess up kids lives, fuck that coach

I was a highschool wrestler and the minute I got out I gained like 40 pounds cuz I ate everything. For anyone curious I was 6'2" and wrestled 170s

Real shit. This isn't a "harsh reality of wrestlers" this is the harsh reality of torturing yourself to get a tiny little advantage.

@@NarutoUzumaki-jg4pw it makes me cringe whenever people take pride in cutting too much weight, like good job on making the sport look miserable...!

@@NarutoUzumaki-jg4pw it's a huge advantage though and that's why people literally die attempting it. Size matters

@@thammar1990 it's kind of lame though, isn't it? Like it's a person trying to fight someone smaller and potentially weaker than them right?

@@fireemblemaddict128 yes that's why I recommend having a scale right next to the mat that you step on seconds before the match. Nobody would cut if they didn't have time to recover. Missing weight would be a forfeit and both missing would be a no contest.

Just a lil cardio or running should do it

@@dubz607 you’re stupid if u think “a lil cardio or running” would take off 5 whole pounds.

@@ericramos4992 i mean he’s not wrong, he works off 2-2.5 pounds in the evening, goes to sleep and float off a pound, then squeeze out those last 2 pounds before weigh ins

I was .6 over once and all I did was eat a piece of chicken and I lost 3lbs þat night. I did use þe bathroom a couple times so it wasn’t all just protein and overnight metabolism. But it is possible

@@KevinGonzalez-en8fd are you stupid? He said the night before he doesn’t have an evening.

What school

@@glass_onthelow8307 🤨

@@zachdavis9827🤣🤣

7 % BF!? holy.... 7 percent BF is way too low.

I understand that but imma be honest this doesn’t affect it that much at all

@@CaydenHenschel how much times u do this? Like is it everyday. Or is it a couple days a week ?

@@ivanbarrientos2665 second time this season this is just for lunch through I have more food throughout the day

@@ivanbarrientos2665 it's a matter of your situation and physiology Over/under weight? Eat enough? How many calories do you burn? Etc

@@CaydenHenschel oh alright thanks man

Nooo it’s alright

Yea you sleep off a 1-2 lbs the night before. The real killer is the morning when you wanna guzzle water

Yea I call BS. 15lbs is nearly 2 gallons of water

@@torfinnjohnsrud793 at 220 you can lose that much water weight in a few days by lowering carb intake. This is the basis of Keto and the reason why people lose so much weight in the first week or so. Plus at that size you can easily sleep off like 5 pounds (again water weight) if you get a lot of sleep (like 8+ hours). Your weight fluctuates normally a few pounds so all your doing is taking advantage of that to lose weight quickly but temporarily. Oh and this would only work since he was 220, smaller guys could lose weight like this but nowhere as much.

@@torfinnjohnsrud793 you'd be wrong. There are far smarter, less energy demanding ways to make weight than what people are taught by high school wrestling coaches. The steady increase and then quick decrease of water consumption makes your body continue to release water after you've decreased in take. Ive done this for years with people who are 125-285 lbs.

Y’all big boys really don’t understand how different it is for a small guy to lose even half the amount you did. Not saying that what you did is wrong in any sense because that’s very common and valid. But it t really is just a totally different thing with smaller and usually lower body fat % individuals. Certainly at his size and complexion it will not work nearly the same as someone who is much bigger and has more body fat %

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Tough or stupid?

@@drewbowman210 cant you read? tough he just said it

@@drewbowman210both

I wish more wrestlers knew this and could feel what it was like to go into a match with absolutely full energy and stamina. Weight cutting needs to go.

@@joshua_J i mean, i was 163 cm (5'3 or 5'4) and with a weight of 82kg, ur saying that me a real life meatball should just wrestle and not cut down to 72kg (and sometimes 76 or w.e it is now dont remember) and insyead fight guys that are 185 cm+ at the age of 16 is fine? This is when you take the sport seriously obviously and not just for fun, so like aiming for cchips. Ofc I need to cut weight to be at my bodies best shape, where im strongest, lightest, fastest, and against opponents that might be my size

@@flyingmeatball1833 why not constantly be at an ideal weight then?

@@angegogo6198 great question, i love food and gain weight super fast 😂. I quit wrestling at 82kg 1 year latrr my eright was at 95 and 2 years later i peaked 108kg and now im around 104 ish

@@flyingmeatball1833 ok I get that. I looked into it. And the weight aspect is heavy ingrained in wrestling. In way it feels bad you guys gotta do that but for the edge I get it

What grade where you in when you were In the 20s bc I am a 20 rn and I could use some tips as a freshman

You lost 8 pounds of water weight. You were lucky. Do that a bunch of times and your body gets messed up. also running for an hour and a half right before a match? Yeah, you’re not winning against any top opponents

same exact thing happened to me except I was only 4 pounds over, either way props to you man

@@Charles-kc2vt there’s a kid in my team that runs like 10 miles per day and still is one of our state champs, so your wrong there

Well you didn’t actually cut weight. You lost water weight not even remotely close to what is being done in this video

A lot of it is water weight and depending on your weight class you can lose like 10+ pounds in a few days by reducing the amount of carbs and drinking less water. The hardcore guys though who are really good and might have a future in wrestling, yeah it sucks to be them.

There’s no such thing lol

Lying like crazy lmfao

@@user-rk3ds2hu9y not really 😭 wym lying ? Im a freshman I wrestle for high school

@@annaliemejia7792 it’s 106 up to 285….

@@user-rk3ds2hu9y for men… I’m a girl

I’ll work on it

I need to work on tilts too lol

Why don't they just fight at their respected weights. Seems dumb to have to stay on a certain weight

@@TonyDabs Take it as a first come, first served kinda thing. Let's say three guys walk around 145, only one guy can take that spot, so what happens is that the other teammates have bulk or *usually* cut weight. It sounds bad, but it's better than forfeiting other weight classes.

Cutting substantial weight isn't nessicary if you're an excellent fighter. You can be the best without cutting. Cutting just provides an advantage (or if ur in hs an easier spot)

Yeah

Agreed. You're screwing up your body at such a young age.

yea but you get to throw around people on purpose

@@Makynzee__Brooks you can do that every single day. As a man, fights at bars aren't uncommon. 95% of the time, getting into a fight at the bar results in both parties just going home, no police involved.

Chill lemme sleep in 😔

Different views my boy