BACKGROUND Many wrestlers engage in chronic dieting and rapid "weight cutting" throughout the year to compete in a category below their natural weight. Such weight-management practices have a negative influence on their health and nutritional status, so the National Wrestling Coaches Association implemented a new weight-management program for high school wrestlers in 2006. PURPOSE The purpose...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of β-alanine as an ergogenic aid in tests of anaerobic power output after 8 weeks of high-intensity interval, repeated sprint, and resistance training in previously trained collegiate wrestlers (WR) and football (FB) players. Twenty-two college WRs (19.9 ± 1.9 years, age ± SD) and 15 college FB players (18.6 ± 1.5 years) participated in...

BACKGROUND Free style and Greco-Roman are two types of wrestling. [figure: see text] OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to examine the maximal isometric strength of cervical extension (ISCE) and the maximal isometric strength of cervical flexion (ISCF) in two groups of elite wrestlers and a group of non-athletic subjects. METHODS Fourteen elite Greco-Roman wrestlers (aged 19-25 years), 16...

traumatic injuries are leading causes of spinal cord damage. the purpose of this study was to evaluate whether wrestling induced cervical spondylosis amongst professional wrestlers or not. to test this assumption, two groups of athletes, 72 wrestlers versus 76 non-wrestlers 15-55 years of age were studied. radiographic findings and clinical assessment were compared in both groups. significant d...

Being at a high level of sports form, some athletes who specialize in Martial Arts cannot cope with negative emotions, which leads to decrease their athletic performance. In the competitive and post-competitive periods there are sharp emotional shifts, so most Arts, particular Sambo wrestling (sports combat sections) unable normalize condition, psychologist, as well coach – must support athlete...

During November 7-December 9, 1997, three previously healthy collegiate wrestlers in different states died while each was engaged in a program of rapid weight loss to qualify for competition. In the hours preceding the official weigh-in, all three wrestlers engaged in a similar rapid weight-loss regimen that promoted dehydration through perspiration and resulted in hyperthermia. The wrestlers r...

The analysis of the researches domestic specialists made it possible to determine a system effective means training variable technical and tactical actions young freestyle wrestlers, namely: components technique throwing with mill, methods preparation, as well tools that ensure implementation this depending on variability "entry into reception", different training, types grips various starting ...