Wrestling is a different kind of sport. In wrestling, you are pushed to your limit physically and mentally with little to no breaks. Even when you aren’t at practice, you are still being tested by fighting your natural urge to eat and drink. You have to dehydrate and starve yourself a ton so that you can actually make weight for the meets. You also only get to eat food that is super healthy and doesn’t taste good. I have had many experiences where I feel like I want to give up and just drink water right before a meet but I push through so that I can wrestle. Other times I was already at the limit but needed to lose more weight so I had to run for over 45 minutes before the meet. These all were horrible at the time, but now that I look back …show more content…
You have to be dedicated every day and give all that you have in you. You have to talk to the coaches to get on the team but you aren’t actually a wrestler without the dedication that everyone else puts into the team. Being on the team doesn’t mean you are part of the family culture that the team has because you have to prove that you are actually a part of the team. If you say you’re on the team, but you never go to practices or lifts then you aren’t actually a part of the team and you aren’t going to be treated like family like the rest of the team. If you aren’t a part of the team, then you aren’t looked at negatively, you just aren’t going to be looked at in a positive light for being tough. To really become part of the team, you have to show that you are devoting yourself to the team and the sport. You have to push yourself and your teammates to do better and encourage them through their best and their worst. Another thing is wrestlers like to keep things the same when they’re doing good so it becomes a …show more content…
They talk about how they could never handle not being able to eat and drink whenever they want and still being able to practice. Most people think of wrestlers as super lean and always tired and lazy because they’re starved. They also say things about how if you wrestle then you like touching other guys. Most wrestlers aren’t tired all of the time but are normally only really tired on meet days when they’re hungry and dehydrated. Most wrestlers are very lean so it is normally right but the last reason doesn’t make sense because it isn’t sexual when people wrestle for sport. Most guys that do wrestling have a girlfriend because they’re normally very strong and lean and know how to eat right. This goes against the statement that they try to make against wrestlers. Another thing is, wrestling is very good for getting in shape and there are many other ways to join it that aren’t for the