Why the study?
Does weight reduction affect anthropometric, physical, and performance measures in college wrestlers?
Does weight reduction affect anthropometric, physical, and performance measures in college wrestlers?
College wrestlers can lose up to 7 percent of their body weight without adversely affecting strength, cardiovascular endurance, and response time.
May allow up to 7% weight loss in wrestlers without performance loss; hypothesis-generating and requires randomized confirmation.
Eighteen girth, skinfold, cardiovascular, cable tension strength, and response time measurements were obtained in order to assess the effects of weight reduction on a group of college wrestlers. In 10 of the 18 measurements mean differences were found to be significant at the .05 level from the statistical analysis provided by a repeated measures analysis of variance. It was generally concluded that for the ten subjects studied up to 7 percent of body weight may be lost without adversely affecting factors apparently related to wrestling performance —strength, cardiovascular endurance, and response time.
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