The research aims at identifying the effect of losing weight on some psycho-physical symptoms of the Egyptian national wrestling team. The researcher used the experimental method of three groups design on a purposive sample of the Egyptian national wrestling team (the first wrestlers group losing less than 5% of their normal body weight, the second wrestlers group losing less than 7% of their normal body weight and the third wrestlers group losing less than 10% of their normal body weight). Moreover, conducted the psycho-physical symptoms index was applied onto the three groups. The most important results were that losing weight less than 5% of body weight does not affect the psycho-physical symptoms. While losing weight less than 7% of body weight moderately affects the psycho-physical symptoms and losing weight less than 10% of body weight largely affects the psycho-physical symptoms.
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