After my son’s big victory last night, he weighed himself to make sure that he would be under the weight limit for this morning’s weigh in. As is so often the case, what should have been a mere formality turned into another small adventure.
He was 4 pounds overweight!!!
To make matters worse, it was indirectly my fault!
Last weekend, I had found an article written by doctors and wrestling coaches on how to eat and drink during a wrestling tournament. It said that he should drink 8 ounces of Gatorade one hour before his next match and 4 ounces of water 20 minutes before the match.
It worked great at last week’s tournament. However, last week he wrestled one match every three hours. This weekend’s tournament was run so much more efficiently. He wrestled 5 matches in 5 hours.
So, he drank 48 ounces of Gatorade and at least 20 ounces of water in 5 hours!
because I told him to!
So, after cutting two pounds earlier in the day to make the initial weigh in, going to school and then wrestling 5 times in 5 hours, instead of going right to bed when we got home at 11:00 P.M., he put on three layers of sweat clothes and went to the gym to sit in the sauna for more than an hour.
He had to be back at school at 6:00 A.M. this morning.
All that work paid off. He pinned his first two opponents to make it to the finals to where he lost to the reigning Missouri Group 2 state champion by a 12-4 score. He went 7-1 for the tournament. His record for the year is now 31-7.
