The body shape and weight of professional athletes are often as erratic as a fan. It is not surprising that there is a difference of more than 10 to 20 kg in weight between [slimming in clothes and fleshy in undresses] during the competition and easy [out of shape] after the competition.
Let’s see, what happened to them.
Boxing champion: lose 15 kg two weeks before the match,
The familiar Chinese [boxing champion] Zou Shiming, unfortunately, is not on the list for this Olympics.
He won gold medals in the 48kg and 49kg categories in Beijing and London Olympics respectively. However, his weight may remain at about 55kg two weeks before the competition. Is it amazing?
Among the 28 major events and 306 minor events in Rio Olympics, weightlifting, wrestling, boxing, judo and taekwondo have one thing in common: the competition is divided into weight levels. This can offset the advantage brought by weight and make the competition fairer. The result is no doubt.
Experienced athletes will use the rules to lose weight before the competition to form a situation of “beating with big weight and beating with small weight”: keep a large weight until before the competition, and use fast weight loss methods such as dehydration to supplement water and energy during the interval (ranging from 3 hours to more than one day) between the end of weighing and the start of the competition through the weighing process before the competition.
In this way, the weighing process can be smoothly passed, and the weight may not be recovered, but the exercise state when the weight is heavy can be maintained.
How to Lose Weight Quickly Before Competition
There are also some professional bodybuilders or combatants who can even neglect their weight of more than 20 kilograms in 6 weeks and only take off more than 10 kilograms of water two days before the competition.
If you want to lose weight quickly before the competition, the specific implementation is generally as follows:
- Preparation period (about one month before the competition): Continue to gain weight, during which the body’s muscle content and fat will increase; Pre-competition period (one month before competition) to one week of competition: for slow weight loss period, athletes will control calorie and salt intake through aerobic training during this period; If the weight still does not fall to the expected range one week before the competition, various means are needed to quickly reduce the weight.
In order to pass the weighing process, athletes will do everything they can. Various scientific and unscientific means are multifarious. Dieting, dehydration and sauna are routine means. Some even cut off their hair and lose [weight]. What’s more, they will use laxatives regardless of the consequences to carry out pathological dehydration.
A large amount of dehydration and weight loss will affect exercise ability.
Chen Wenbin, head coach of Chinese men’s weightlifting, once recalled the story of Olympic champion Zhang Guozheng losing weight. Before 2004, Zhang Guozheng had to lose 6-7 kilograms before taking part in international competitions, and was used to losing 2 kilograms on the last day.
He will definitely go to the sauna on the last night, but this kind of subtraction is simply unbearable. You think, you have already lost 5 kilograms, and you have to lose 2 kilograms at one go. It really feels like drying the meat. The process of death and life, think about it, feel horrible.
At the end of the sauna, you can only wipe it with a dry towel, because if you use a wet towel, the water will be sucked in instead, often taking three or four hours.
In the 2012 London Olympics, Wu Jingbiao, a weightlifter, lost the men’s 56kg Olympic gold medal because of improper dehydration before the match.
Too much and too fast weight loss will not only cause harm to the body, but also affect the exercise ability and increase the risk of exercise.
A large amount of dehydration in a short period of time (exceeding 5% of body weight is moderate dehydration) will cause blood volume to decrease, heart rate to increase, blood concentration, blood flow speed to slow down, affect the body’s blood circulation ability, and is not conducive to exercise. However, if weight loss exceeds 10% of body weight, it is severe dehydration.
In addition, dehydration will also take away a large amount of salt, which greatly increases the probability of electrolyte disturbance during exercise, easily leads to muscle spasm and increases the risk of exercise.
Therefore, experienced athletes will keep their weight under control before the competition and replenish water as soon as possible after weighing.
Health is less important so
Athletes’ sports spirit is worth learning, but athletes’ unscientific weight loss methods are not worth learning.
Losing weight does not mean losing weight or fat. Many quick weight loss advertisements call out [losing 10 kg a week] and apple weight loss methods, etc., which are nothing more than extreme restrictions on your short-term energy intake and water intake, plus certain dehydration. They are just the illusion of short-term weight loss, but damage your normal health.
For most ordinary people who need to lose excess fat and increase the proportion of lean body weight, it is not recommended to lose more than 0.5 ~ 1kg (or 1% of body weight) per week. It is more appropriate to create an energy difference of 300 ~ 500 kilocalories by controlling diet and increasing exercise every day.