The drive behind dropping The goal to lose weight is derived from the theory that if a wrestler loses as much weight as possible while building his or her strength, he or she maintains a larger body frame and can therefore wrestle people who are naturally smaller and weaker. With this strategy in mind, wrestlers subject themselves to draining physical ordeals to compete against whom they believe will be easier opponents. Head wrestling coach Jake Scott explains that the weight loss is initiated by the wrestlers themselves. Because wrestlers weigh in before matches and are assigned to the appropriate weight class, a wrestler's decision to drop weight can affect the outcome of an entire meet. The Blair team does not have enough wrestlers to fill in the roster when a first string wrestler does not make weight for the match.
Water weight is therefore the easiest and fastest form of weight to lose.
He has rarely seen wrestlers drop more than that. The maximum I have witnessed is seven pounds. That would be an individual I would take special note of. The Blair coaches prohibit workouts in saunas and plastics such as rubber suits and garbage bags because they can induce severe water loss and place wrestlers in danger. According to a member of the Blair wrestling team, there have been instances in recent years where wrestlers have gone running in raincoats without letting the coaches know.