The Diet

Wrestling isn’t all about training hard and performing well. Those are two of the major parts of the sport obviously, but I have yet to tell you about one of the most important parts of the sport. I have yet to tell you the strict diets that we have to be on to make our weight so we can wrestle. I think most people get the assumption that we starve ourselves. This isn’t entirely true, yes we usually don’t eat the night before or the day of weigh-ins even if they are at night. This is all part of a carefully planned out diet program we have to follow. We eat as healthy as possible and consume as little as possible while still maintaining the correct amounts of what our body needs to perform. Yes, we are hungry and thirsty a lot of the time when we first get on our diets, but our bodies get used to eating that amounts on our diet. Once this happens it’s not all that bad unless you break the diet and then it’s like the cycle of getting used to it starts all over. Sometimes if our weight is good we can have a little extra or can drink an extra bottle of water. We just can’t stray from the diet or bad things happen in terms of how we feel at our respected weight classes. The rules of the diet are simple. Rule one, drink 5 bottles of water a day and only drink water. Rule Two, eat 1500 calories a day and the food has to come from the ground or used to have a heartbeat. That’s all it is. The tricky part is adjusting to eat less or drink less to make weight. You have to know exactly when to start cutting your portions down so that you feel good for your match. That’s about all the diet is. It’s very easy to explain, but very hard to follow. None of this would be a problem if we were UFC fighters or boxers because they weigh in the day before and they get a whole 24 hours to get their bodies ready. Wrestlers get one hour. This is why diet is so important for us. Well now that you know another element to our sacrifice, I urge you again to look us up! I urge you to check us out on twitter or at golhu.com. We also have a match tonight February 13, 2015 against Rider who has been ranked as high as 18^th in the country. If you’re in the area and are reading this come out and support! Watch us take out a top notch team in front of our loyal fans! Come support the Bald Eagles!!