Weight Cutting Skinny
Weight Cutting:The practice of rapid weight loss prior to a sporting competition. It most frequently happens in order to qualify for a lower weight class (usually in combat sports, where weight is a significant advantage) or in sports where it is advantageous to weigh as little as possible (most notably equestrian). There are two types of weight cutting: One method is to lose weight in the form of fat and muscle in the weeks prior to an event; the other is to lose weight in the form of water in the final days before competition.
Methods Include:
Severe dehydration, caloric restriction, diuretics, diet pills, laxatives, rubber exercise suits and vomiting. Wrestling accounts for almost three in four instances of eating disorders among male athletes.
Coleman’s Story:
Shorts, long johns, pants, sweats, snow pants, undershirt, tee, sweater, hoodie, jacket, two hats, one scarf and a pair of gloves, and senior wrestling co-captain Alan Coleman is ready. In the next 45 minutes, Coleman will sweat off five pounds. He will climb 60 flights of stairs on nothing but a tablespoonful of peanut butter and a mouthful of water, gargled during yesterday’s practice to convince his throat he’s getting rehydrated, then spit out to prevent water weight. At 3:30 p.m., the naturally 150-pound athlete will be 135 pounds. Coleman will make weight for his meet; he always has.
Nguyen’s Story:
Over the course of two days in 2002, Nguyen went from 112 pounds to 105 pounds. He worked hard at practice, wearing sweat clothes to keep in the heat; he came home to a cup of plain lettuce (his only meal for the day) and another workout (treadmill, draped in a plastic bag); he spent days at the YMCA sauna sweating off pounds.




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I hate to see someone get too small...too quickly.
Not healthy
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Jockeys do this too. We had a hotbox at the racetrack (sauna, basically), and one jockey definitely died while I worked there, from sweating out all his water. By all means, keep this challenge going if you want to kill people.
Ya know it's possible but I don't think sitting in saunas or wearing a sauna suit will kill a healthy person that used it some times. On the other hand, a sauna suit etc may kill someone that does multiple dangerous things like the people I wrote about. furthermore, my post doesn't present a challenge. It's just facts that lack an opinion. My post allow the reader to form their own opinion without judging. Now if a reader went on ask a blogger and asked me if a sauna suit will help them lose weight I'd say yea, water weight. I don't know if you called yourself smart to hint someone else may not be as smart like the guy you knew who died but I don't think it's a matter of being smart but a matter research. I haven't met anyone who's so stupid that they knew something could kill them, couldn't help them and wanted to live yet did something that would kill them for no good reason other then stupidity lol. Glad you care enough to tell other people what you know so they won't make the same mistake but if you want to help more people, try not to say things that will make others feel like you're insulting them. Your statement didn't cross that line but it was close.
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