The Wisconsin wrestling minimum weight project: a model for weight control among high school wrestlers.
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.
D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D001823:Body Composition; D001835:Body Weight / Q000502:physiology; D004038:Diet, Reducing; D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000193:education; D010290:Parents; D010820:Physicians; D010865:Pilot Projects; D015397:Program Evaluation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012574:Schools; D012885:Skinfold Thickness; D013663:Teaching; D015431:Weight Loss; D014922:Wisconsin; D014952:Wrestling / Q000502:physiology