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Acute weight gain and its relationship to success in high school wrestlers
The purpose of this study was to investigate 1. the extent of weight gain by high school wrestlers between an evening weigh-in
and the first round of wrestling the next morning and 2. the relationship between weight gain and wrestling success.
Result: The difference in weigt gain (WG) and relative weight gain ( RWG) between winners and losers was significant (P < 0.05). In 74 of the 130 bouts (57%), the heavier wrestler was successful.
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| Notations: | combat sports biological and medical sciences |
| Published in: | Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise |
| Language: | English |
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1998
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| Online Access: | https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Fulltext/1998/06000/Acute_weight__gain_and_its_relationship_to_success.26.aspx |
| Volume: | 30 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Pages: | 949-951 |
| Document types: | article |
| Level: | advanced |