Weight Cutting Research Paper
UNITED STATES SPORTS ACADEMY
Health Effects of Weight Cutting on an Athlete
A Class Paper Submitted for
SAD 356 Sports Nutrition
Professor: Wirt Edwards
by:
Nikhil Vashist
Daphne, Alabama
May, 2013
Weight cutting is an old and traditional practice many athletes and coaches implement as part of a pre-competition regime, making weight for a competition, or simply trying to attempt to lose weight for a variety of personal reasons. Weight cutting would be defined as an athlete making an effort to lose weight rapidly by means such as, but not limited to, extreme dieting or fasting, not consuming enough water, excessive exercising in plastic suits, saunas, abusing diuretics, laxatives, and water pills, and/or …show more content…
(2012). Advanced Sports Nutrition (2nd ed.). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
Lutz, C. & Przytulski, K. (2011). Nutrition and Diet Therapy (5th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: F. A. Davis Company.
Tarnopolsky, M. A., Cipriano, N., Woodcroft, C., Pulkkinen, W. J., Robinson, D. C., Henderson, J. M., & MacDougall, J. D. (1996). Effects of Rapid Weight Loss and Wrestling on Muscle Glycogen Concentration. Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, 6(2), 78-84.
Mountjoy, M. (2008). Weight Control Strategies of Olympic Athletes Striving for Leanness: What Can be Done to Make Sport a Safer Environment? Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, 18(1), 2-4.
Trabelsi, K., Stannard, S. R., Ghlissi, Z., Maughan, R. J., Kallel, C., Jamo, K., Zeghal, K. M., & Hakim, A. (2013). Effect of Fed-versus Fasted State Resistance Training During Ramadan on Body Composition and Selected Metabolic Parameters in Bodybuilders. Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, 10(23), 1-11.
Franchini, E., Brito, C. J., & Artioli, G. G. (2012). Weight Loss in Combat Sports: Physiological, Psychological, and Performances Effects. Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, 9(52),
Health Effects of Weight Cutting on an Athlete
A Class Paper Submitted for
SAD 356 Sports Nutrition
Professor: Wirt Edwards
by:
Nikhil Vashist
Daphne, Alabama
May, 2013
Weight cutting is an old and traditional practice many athletes and coaches implement as part of a pre-competition regime, making weight for a competition, or simply trying to attempt to lose weight for a variety of personal reasons. Weight cutting would be defined as an athlete making an effort to lose weight rapidly by means such as, but not limited to, extreme dieting or fasting, not consuming enough water, excessive exercising in plastic suits, saunas, abusing diuretics, laxatives, and water pills, and/or …show more content…
(2012). Advanced Sports Nutrition (2nd ed.). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
Lutz, C. & Przytulski, K. (2011). Nutrition and Diet Therapy (5th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: F. A. Davis Company.
Tarnopolsky, M. A., Cipriano, N., Woodcroft, C., Pulkkinen, W. J., Robinson, D. C., Henderson, J. M., & MacDougall, J. D. (1996). Effects of Rapid Weight Loss and Wrestling on Muscle Glycogen Concentration. Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, 6(2), 78-84.
Mountjoy, M. (2008). Weight Control Strategies of Olympic Athletes Striving for Leanness: What Can be Done to Make Sport a Safer Environment? Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, 18(1), 2-4.
Trabelsi, K., Stannard, S. R., Ghlissi, Z., Maughan, R. J., Kallel, C., Jamo, K., Zeghal, K. M., & Hakim, A. (2013). Effect of Fed-versus Fasted State Resistance Training During Ramadan on Body Composition and Selected Metabolic Parameters in Bodybuilders. Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, 10(23), 1-11.
Franchini, E., Brito, C. J., & Artioli, G. G. (2012). Weight Loss in Combat Sports: Physiological, Psychological, and Performances Effects. Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, 9(52),