Weight cycling causes problems with people's health. It's bad. How can anybody use this as an asset?
The weight loss of as little as five pounds does not hurt an athlete or an average person walking around. It's the point that while people yo-yo diet, they will gain it all back. The problem then occurs when gaining the weight back, especially if they were to lose over 20 pounds. The more weight they lose, the more weight they gain back, and that then causes problems to the heart, the fat and muscle tissue.
Athletes are typically known for doing this, especially wrestlers and boxers. They must make a certain weight and the only way to do this is to rapidly cut out fatty foods, dehydrate and sweat. After making their desired weight, they then gain it all back by binge eating possibly. This is so bad in many ways. Yet, coaches and trainers let their athletes do this? There is not way this should be allowed.
The affects of this are long lasting and a lot of people won't even realize what they find themselves doing and the affects of what happened because of weight cycling. People will eventually experience high blood pressure, heart disease, maybe a stroke, type 2 diabetes, arthritis, breathing problems and maybe a cancer. This isn't even all the bad problems with the cycling of weight.
The only way to fix this is for the coaches, trainers and people around the sport to be more involved. Make sure their athlete is not going through a drastic weight loss. And for the higher people who control the sport, maybe a weight master or a board member, should make it illegal. Athletes can die from this, and some have. Only they can stop the athletes, because the athletes will do almost anything to gain that competitive advantage.
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