Well, putting health and fitness before wrestling, then don’t do any crash dieting, and once this water weight is gone see what happens if you increase, on an ongoing basis, your intake of quality nutritious food somewhat from where it had been.
Ff you truly start getting a spare tire then go back to where you were on amount of food, but chances are instead the greater food intake will only help you at your age and activity level and obvious seriousness of training!
The point is you need to be giving your body fuel to grow. Your bones and entire body are still getting bigger and taller and you are severely limiting your gains and potentially fucking up your growth and hormones by doing a real cutting diet at your age and size.
You are SUPPOSED to be gaining a lot of weight as it is. No one here is going to recommend that you mess with the process. And you shouldn’t.
The bloat will come off really fast if you do a little high rep work or just eat normally and give it a few days as you are experiencing
With the hormones you are experiencing, you should be getting bigger and putting on lots of muscle while potentially leaning out anyway. It’s the best time for you to gain weight in your entire life dude. And you don’t have to get fat doing so.
Most people envy someone having that type of development at your age, why compromise your growth and long term health now? Girls start getting a lot hotter in a few years too, believe me hah
Make the most out of nature’s more powerful version of steroids- puberty.
think about it
and don’t expect reinforcement if you decide to keep crash dieting.
do you guys think my body looks unhealthy in that picture then ?
The point is that if you are not eating as much as you should – which it sounds like generally you aren’t – you are seriously hurting your potential down the road.
You don’t get the chance of being 14 again. Blow it this time around, and it’s blown.
If you were 6 foot and 190 lb and lean and you wanted to eat like a bird, well, that would be one thing. It would also be cutting back your potential most likely, but from a potential so high that well, so what you might have been 6’6": winding up 6’3" instead isn’t something to whine about.
But at 5’3" and 110, limiting your potential for the sake of making a coach happy or momentarily having an advantage in high school wrestling just is not worth it.
[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
The point is that if you are not eating as much as you should – which it sounds like generally you aren’t – you are seriously hurting your potential down the road.
You don’t get the chance of being 14 again. Blow it this time around, and it’s blown.
If you were 6 foot and 190 lb and lean and you wanted to eat like a bird, well, that would be one thing. It would also be cutting back your potential most likely, but from a potential so high that well, so what you might have been 6’6": winding up 6’3" instead isn’t something to whine about.
But at 5’3" and 110, limiting your potential for the sake of making a coach happy or momentarily having an advantage in high school wrestling just is not worth it.
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no kidding, if you starve yourseolf you can stunt your growth. Have fun being 5’3" for life.
yeah figuring in that other guys thread you posted a diet that a 100 lb little girl who played with dolls all day couldnt live off of…if thats what you think is a good diet…then…you have some problems.
according to online daily caloric intake calculators…my maintainance is 1400…so 1100 calories a day is a 300 cal deficit which isnt that much for me because im small. ill always be short my whole family is 5"5’
dude…that is if your in bed all day doing nothing at all but sleeping…figuring that your active (you wrestle) you need AT LEAST 2k. Factor in that your (supposed) to be growing you need much more…
god damn i cannot imagine doing 1100 a day…
well i can, but when i was taking that I was deathly ill…
What you trying to wrestle at? 119? …or 112?
the weight class is 114 now, im just going to eat normal untill it gets closer to february 1st, when i have to be 114 again
My dad was 5’5" but I was 6’ 1/2" when younger. (Have shrunk an inch with age, this is common.)
Don’t sell yourself short, no pun intended, based on family history.
Eating the way you are will turn your belief into a self-fulfilling prophecy that:
Not worth it for high school wrestling.
The choice is yours: the factor that will make the difference is how much you eat. If you imagine it makes no or little difference to final height, you are wrong. It can easily be much more than just the 3" or 4" in my example above. That is being conservative.
If your coach is requiring this of you or in any way discouraging you from going up in weight at this time in your life he does not have your best interests at heart and his wishes should receive the according amount of respect deserved, namely none.
However it doesn’t sound like you have an open mind on this matter.
[quote]tplet wrote:
the weight class is 114 now, im just going to eat normal untill it gets closer to february 1st, when i have to be 114 again[/quote]
I’d bump up at class if I was you
WAIT!!!
you are 14? 120 some odd pounds?
worried about eating xxx amount of calroies and bein g in a featherweight class?
You are 14,you are growing, you will never stay 120 some odd pounds.
hell your not supposed to be 120 to begin with that is grade school stuff.
dont be afraid to grow, if you are growing then get betetr at wrestling and go up a weight class.
you can do alo6t of damage to yourself by thinking and treating your body the way you are.
dont worry about counting calories that is for people that are already done growing, you are just starting.
You do realize if you eat clean and double your calories along with weight training, that it will be MUSCLE that you gain.
If you were 160 lbs. of ripped muscle (and that’s not that big) it would be better than maintaining a little-boy’s physique.
you guys are right, and im bumping up to 125 after the season. im eating normal at maintainance calories untill new years…then january first seeing what i weigh. the big issue was i was the starter at 112, and when i return from my injury my spot is 114 for the last match and then county tournament. so i just need to make the weight twice more in february…
Rhonda Rousey, who won a bronze in the Olympics in Judo, had her best successes after she went up in weight class. It paid off for her, so definitely listen to everyone here about gaining weight and muscle for next season.
[quote]tplet wrote:
best way to burn off glycogen quickly?[/quote]
I wrestled too and had to cut from time to time.
Your best bet is to put on the dreaded garbage bag suit and go running in a hot environment. You will sweat your balls off and burn your glycogen stores.
Also,
I would agree with other posters that gaining weight may be a good idea.
In high school, you should be growing, and not limiting your nutrient intake to essentially stunt growth.
The benefit to a lean body in wrestling is to be as strong as possible at a given weight.
You should be more concerned with your body fat percentage than overall weight.
Eat more to gain muscle in the off season. Don’t stick to your cinnabon shit diet long term. That isn’t good for anyone, but eat to gain in the weight room.
In season, cut all the fat you can off and if you weigh more, it’s muscle. You will still have the strength to weight ratio benefit and will be stronger overall.
That being said, coaches can put a lot of pressure on teammates to stay where they are in relation to weight class so that they can build a team with specific people at a certain weight class.
If this is your predicament, your long term health is much more important than making a coach happy, even if it puts you on the shit list. Put yourself first and hell, if you gain lean mass and kick the heavier guys ass for his position, what can anybody really say?
Once you are a fully developed adult, finding a weight and sticking with it is fine. But not now. You are naturally growing as you mature. Don’t cut yourself short. 110 pounds is not right for you. Or a sixth grader really.