I am a member of a different forum... and the discussion of cutting weight and wrestling came up. (It’s not a wrestling forum) but anyway, I told them how much weight I actually lost during wresting season. 30 lbs is how much I would loose (this was before dehydration testing) but never the less that is how much I lost during the course of a week. I know that several wrestlers do this even now and somehow get around the dehydration thing. I know it wasn't particularly healthy, but I like many other wrestlers did and have done it. One guy that is arguing with me about it (saying that it is impossible) tried to prove me wrong by getting on another wrestling site and asking the question is it possible. he got answers that it is impossible but he got on a WWE wrestling fan club site... they don’t know what they are talking about. He also said that he asked a wrestler at his school about it and the wrestler said that it would be extremely hard to loose 10 pounds in a week. I laughed and told him that that was a joke and that many loose that in a day and once again, i got called a lier. he seems to think that you would be dead if yo udid this but we all know otherwise. if you guys could give some replies or tell some stories for me about you cutting weight or someone you knew cutting weight it would be appreciated so the can see that I am in fact not lying.
Thank you.

Can you prove a point but lose the war? I still think one of the most difficult images that wrestling has to overcome is excessive weight cutting during the season. Many in the general public see this as a sore sport for wrestling. Does it do any good for wrestling as a sport for former and current wrestlers to be relating these weight loss war stories on public forums, especially non-wrestling forums?

You in fact are a liar...you did not pull 30 pounds weekly. You did not even wrestle in High School, if you did you never made the team. You are telling stories to make your buddies think you are COOL. Let me leave you with this...Stand silent and people think you a fool, open your mouth and remove all doubt.

It is impossible for a person to lose 30lbs in a week. The easiest way to explain why are with these 2 points.

1) if they were athletic enough to be wrestling at a competative level they WOULD NOT have 30lbs to lose. Even if it were physically possible to do (which it isnt) the person would have to have an incredible amount of body fat. That in itself would limit the persons ability to excerise radically enough to achieve that amount of weightloss. If they were fit and pulling 30lbs in a week they would burn so much lean muscle mass they would be worthless strengthwise for anything competative.

2) The body has to have calories(fuel) to operate. In order to lose weight you must burn more calories then you take in. I will leave it to you to do the simple math, but you would have to starve yourself and excerise non stop and still wouldnt come close to that kind of weight loss.

You should not come to a legitimate forum to try and prove a ridiculous point. You will have better luck finding the falsehood support your looking for somewhere else.

i am sorry i made myself unclear, i didnt mean EACH AND EVERY WEEK, i ment starting out from. usually week by week, i would loose 15 and sometimes 20 lbs. the 30 is including the small layer of pudge i built up during off season (which wasnt there and didnt come back after i lost it until after season again), sorry for the missunderstanding. i wrestled 145 my sr year and started off 173 or something, but like i said, i had built up some fat over off season and leand back down pretty quick. during the season id usually start a monday off at around 160ish and if i really pigged out 165ish, once again sorry for the missunderstanding.

Sounds like you gorged yourself to see how much you could weigh on Monday. I would bet that you even weighed in with your clothes on after eating big and drinking heavily before weighing. Your natural weight was somewhere around 155 which is not a hard pull to 145. You were probably also the guy that walked around looking tired and trying to get the attention of the girls by making sure everyone knew that you were pulling. I hated those guys. Just out of curiosity, when did you wrestle, how did you do, and what is your name so we can confirm all of this?

my name is ryker, my sr year was 2005, i took 4th that year (lost to romero cotton in semis by 1 pt lol) but no, i wasnt one of the guys who moped around. i acually didnt like to be bothered and slept alot. one reason i went to 145 and not 152 was because one of my teamates wanted to go 52 and asked if i could make 145 and i told him i would try and ended up making it. i didnt weigh in clothing. the whole arument didnt really come up specifically talking about wrestilng. someone said that you would die if you didnt eat or drink anything for 2 days because of dehydration and i told him that that was untrue. he asked me how i knew this and i told him that i had done it in past. he asked why i would do that and so on and so forth, one thing led to another, i ended up spilling out my cut weight schedule (without thinking) and ended up being called a liar. really and truthfully i shoulda been a 52 pounder but you know how it is when teamates decide who is going to go where. (i was lighter of 2 so thats y i went down) it was more for team than me going to 145.

ever heard about the 3's?
3 mins without air
3 days without water
3 weeks without food

theres a good chance one will not recover after any of these 3 are exceeded. just fyi for ur friend

i wrestling 130lbs and i have lost 8 lbs in 2 day before to make weight it can be done