Wrestling
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Make sure your cardio is up. Keep upp with what ever weight routine you had in football. Alot of the explosiveness you used in football off the line can come in hand on the mat. Pay close attention to the techniquies you are taught and then tweak them to make them work best for you.
it depends on what weight class you want to wrestle. I wrestled at my walking weight (at the time) of 171. I walked around at 175. So i would get a good work out the night before a match and eat a light dinner and make weight no problem. If you want to drop a weight class you should find a diet that works for you.
Work on your technique/conditioning/strength before completely altering your diet and trying to make a certain weight.
Your coach is really the person you should be asking these questions too, as he would have a much better gauge of what kind of level you're at. (not that it's bad or wrong to ask for some advice here as well)
I know you said you don't start until next season... my personal advice would still be to talk to the coach of the team, let him know you're excitied to start wrestling and ask him if there's any kind of off season conditioning program or specific exercises he would recommend to get you prepared for the first practice.
osubuckeye4 said:
Work on your technique/conditioning/strength before completely altering your diet and trying to make a certain weight.
Your coach is really the person you should be asking these questions too, as he would have a much better gauge of what kind of level you're at. (not that it's bad or wrong to ask for some advice here as well)
I know you said you don't start until next season... my personal advice would still be to talk to the coach of the team, let him know you're excitied to start wrestling and ask him if there's any kind of off season conditioning program or specific exercises he would recommend to get you prepared for the first practice.
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Yeah i'll do that once i see him. thanks
osubuckeye4 said:
10thplanetJJ said:
When I was in high school, it was a requirement for all Varsity football players to be on the wrestling team in the off season.
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What if they wanted to play basketball or run indoor track?
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They didn't play varsity football.
The coach made it a requirement to ensure all of his players maintained their conditioning and strength training during the off season.
Our coach made it mandatory that you either play another varsity sport in the offseason, or you do the offseason lifting/conditioning program.
If someone was a scholarship athlete in basketball and happened to be a starting football player, they wouldn't have gotten kicked off our team... that would be ridiculous.
You guys probably missed out on some good players... Lebron James was an all-state wide reciever as well as a pretty decent high school basketball player, good thing he didn't go to your school or he would have had to choose one or the other. Terrell Pryor was also all state in both basketball and football.