Key Dieting for Wrestlers and Other Athletes

I am making this post in an attempt to increase the popularity of my blogging. This, however does not indicate that I lack experience with dieting. As a wrestler whom has to maintain a certain weight class, I know a good deal about dieting. There are many different categories of dieting. If a category doesn't apply to you, feel free to skim over to the others. 
     
Category #1- Staying in Shape
The easiest way to manage your meals is to never break the rules. This is monumental if you wish to make any forward progress whatsoever. Plainly, you must have a healthy environment, meaning no junk or binge food anywhere in the house. Three "meals" a day may still apply, but not alone. You need to have balanced meals as well as small healthy snacks in between. These snacks may include: Banana chips and crisps, wasabi peas, dried fruit such as kiwi, pineapple, coconut, and peaches. Six eating sessions a day with regular excercise should do the trick, but if it fails you should make sure your workouts are burning enough calories and if your not building muscle you may only be losing tissue, not fat. This is directly resulting from lack of calorie intake. Consume enough calories, workout the right amount, and space out your meals and snacks.


Category #2- Maintaining Weight
All of the steps in the previous category are helpful here, but others are necessary as well. This step is extremely crucial to your confidence. If you work all the way down to a slimmer you and then gain it all right back, it can be quite depressing. Healthy meals need to be a constant, you can't be lax in your diet, or you'll feel its okay to break later on. Eat lots of low burning carbs such as pasta and noodles for your dinner, but protein meals and red meat is okay every once in a while. If you plan on building muscle, you should not be surprised if you gain a little weight, because muscle does in fact weigh more than fat. 


Category #3- Cutting Weight for a Weigh-in
Nutrition is still important but all meals and snacks throughout the week must be reduced. Additional salt must be added to all food in order to absorb water weight. Eat low burning carbs for lunch such as pasta and spaghetti. Lean red meats for dinner including steak and liver are a few good choices. Water weight should not be cut until the day before and the day of weigh-ins.