Dan Gable once said, “Once you’ve wrestled, everything else in life is easy.” This simple quote represents just how much toughness and grit wrestling really requires. We all know everything in life is not easy, but Dan Gable is saying if you have wrestled it will be much easier. The sport of wrestling will set forth in front of you some of the hardest and almost impossible tasks that you will ever face in life. The sport of wrestling is one of the hardest and most demanding sports through the rich history, the physical nature of the sport, and the diet and cutting weight aspect.
The sport of wrestling has been around long before we were ever born and still remains in today’s world as a high school athletic event. The history of the sport dates back
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No other sport requires an athlete to make a certain weight only an hour or two before competition. “Wrestlers sometimes have to sweat away several pounds in a matter of hours or days to make their weight class” (Hanley). If a wrestler is unable to make their weight class they are not allowed to wrestle and are forced to miss the competition for that day. In other sports you always get to compete if you are the best athlete for the job. One problem wrestlers run into is becoming dehydrated. “Weight loss in wrestling usually occurs in a short period of time and consists primarily of water loss” (“Wrestlers’ Diet”). Also, when you are cutting weight and watching what you eat you start to become very malnourished and it’s harder to do tasks that you would normally do very easily. “Keeping up your strength and fitness levels without gaining too much mass represents a rare blend of mental and physical fortitude not often seen in other sports” (Kelliher). After a day long of competition in other sports you get to go out to eat or come home to a feast but for a wrestler you still have the limited amounts of food you have had all season