BLT If a kids wants to wrestle 76 and weights in the day sign-ups are due at 77 we move him/her up and sign them up for 79. We don't tell them to lose that pound.

Hotrodder I will agree with you that it is about weight managment and nutrition. We don't bump kids up so they get worked over by a bigger stronger wrestler. We try to teach them to cut the sopa pop and junk food out and maintain weight. I just think that a wrestler who is a pound over the morning of a tournament and spends an hour running and is exhausted, or does not make weight and gets schratched ia not the way to go either.

With all that being said it does really depend on the wrestler. If the kids has 30% body fat then maybe health eating and some extra exercise to help lose some weight is a good thing but if the kids has 8% body fat then it may not be such a good thing.

A. Steele