Turner, wrestlers and boxers often feel pressure to lose weight, to boost performance but the drastic methods that sometimes use - including strictly limiting calories and deliberate Dehydratation-- experts warn dangerous for their health.
Guidelines for athletes, to offer coaches and parents, trainers Association has published a new set of guidelines for safe weight loss of athletes to the national athletic.
These include: using body composition reviews for measurement of lean body mass versus fat; not more than 1.5 percent of the body to shed weight per week; Eat a balanced diet, which includes all food groups; and losing weight under the supervision of nutrition, health and weight-management experts.
"In the sports performance-gymnastics, dance, ballet-have this enormous responsibility, not only do, to see a performance but well, while they do it." It is an unwritten rule that they have be a certain weight, and they get a lot of pressure, not only of dance masters, but by the public "Paula Sammarone Turocy, lead author of the guidelines and the Chairman of the Department of sports education at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh said themselves, and expectations." "We see it traditional Sportarten--jockeys, wrestler, Boxer." You all have a weight requirement. "If they make the weight, not compete."
And the pressure to shed weight over all sports cuts, she added. Many cyclists, swimmers, runners, football players and even football player believe that losing weight means you can run, swim and faster jump.
Use at the bottom an ideal body weight to improve performance is not a problem in and of itself, she said. It's when athletes go to the extreme, that your drive can backfire. "If it has done wrong or done up to the extreme, that performance interfere with it," she said.
The new guidelines, and are published in the June issue of the journal of athletic training were, the Monday at the annual meeting of the national athletic trainers Association in New Orleans.
Ashleigh Clare-Kearney did exist. As a high school student, she was a standout Turner in more ways than one. She was powerful and graceful, even though it was 5-foot-4 and weighed 155 pounds.
"I do not fit the stereotypes framework, which is 4 feet, 10 inches, 110 pounds,", said Clare-Kearney. "I was told, ' you need to lose weight." They will be considered as a risk. You want to compete in elite international competitions. " "People said I would make it because of my size."
They defied their predictions. As a gymnast at the Louisiana State University (LSU), she was the NCAA champion in the vault and floor, Captain of the team and a NCAA woman of the year finalist.
However, she could not leugnen-- slimming to below would their performance help. She'd put on weight have, when she got to College, and she knew that carry less weight you could allow even higher Vault.
Work with the athletic trainers and the coaches at LSU is located, she studied 145 pounds by focusing on nutrition is about. "I wanted to be never to 110 pounds." "The not building I'm is", she said. "What really with me response was the way, the sports training of the staff who understood." You said, ' Let's be realistic.' "
Contain for Clare-Kearney, to keep a food diary, and you always eat breakfast, drinking water instead of sweetened drinks and eat more fruits and vegetables and less processed foods.
But not every athlete creates it, the pressure to lose weight, to treat as well.
Before competitions, some wrestlers, jockeys and Boxer drain intentionally through the exercise in heavy clothing and restriction of certain food and liquids to lose weight quickly.
There are even anecdotal reports that elite international athletes have removed their blood by IV before the weigh in. The blood is then before the competition re-infused.
Under wrestler at least, deliberate dehydration may be less popular than in the past are due to changes in the rules of the high school level on this reputation for urine tests for the detection of hydration status with the balance. In 2006, for example, the National Federation of State high school associations adopted not only hydration status rules, but also minimum body fat requirements (more than 7 per cent for boys and 12 per cent for girls) to compete.
Not only can affect performance in the short-term rapid weight loss, because athletes just have not the power, to their best performing, but experts add, that restrict calories also long-term consequences may have.
Can dietary restrictions of the endocrine system in the course of time, impede the growth and functioning of muscles and bones have an impact. A poor diet can also impair thyroid function, lower metabolism and hormone production, and the immune system to suppress.
Clare-Kearney, now a law student at Southern University Law Center of Baton Rouge and a volunteer coach for her alma mater, called young athletes, to consider the consequences of their diet.
"Eat fuel really your body." Your body only so much without the right fuel and nutrition can process, "she said." "And there is life beyond gymnastics." "We need to maintain healthy our body as well for life after gymnastics."
More information
The US National Institute of mental health has more on eating disorders.
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