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The Wisconsin wrestling minimum weight project
- Source :
- Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 27:1220
- Publication Year :
- 1995
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1995.
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Abstract
- In 1989, the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association implemented a project including new rules and an educational program, consistent with ACSM and AMA guidelines, to curtail "weight cutting" among high-school wrestlers. The project included skinfold estimates of body fatness to determine a minimum competitive weight, a limit on weekly weight loss, and presentation of nutrition education information to help wrestlers diet effectively. Implementation of the project has overcome a variety of obstacles and has received widespread endorsement from parents, teachers, wrestlers, and coaches. The success of this project offers a model for other states to emulate and should encourage clinicians in other sports to initiate interventions addressing these unhealthy weight loss behaviors.
- Subjects :
- Program evaluation
medicine.medical_specialty
Medical education
Sports medicine
business.industry
Nutrition Education
Psychological intervention
Minimum weight
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Weight control
Weight loss
Physical therapy
medicine
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
medicine.symptom
business
human activities
Educational program
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01959131
- Volume :
- 27
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........6cb716bf599d5486e447e88f7544ca37