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disturbing. rec.

nice…I guess that’s one way to win

I can’t remember what high school came to wrestle with Parkersburg South (my high school), but one of them was in the middle of a match when a brown spot appeared on their ass. Slowly but surely the brown spot got bigger and bigger. Came to find out afterwards the kid literally crapped his pants while wrestling one of our guys. We still joke about that to this day, 12yrs later.

Great story.

Losing water weight will not help Josh Cribbs on the football field. It might kill him, if that’s what you would want.

If there are an extra 13 lbs of water in him from chugging gallon jugs of water that he doesn’t need, he’ll pee it out and lose the weight. Otherwise, you kinda need water to function in the August heat.

If there are 13 lbs of fat (to safely be lost) on Cribbs’ body, I’d be very, very surprised and disappointed. They certainly weren’t on him last year.

And you can burn as many calories as you want, you still have to go into a deficit to actually shed the mass. If you play an intense 4 hour session of basketball and then go eat dinner, many if not all of those calories go right back into your body. So it would require him to do all that extra exercise and then not fuel himself for workouts, which would hurt his performance.

And yes, Cribbs probably does have a lot of muscle mass which will burn more calories just by being there, but for each pound of muscle he’s burning 35-50 calories per day. Not the absurd amount he would need to burn to drop this weight in a matter of days. And again, he would have to starve himself to get into the kinds of deficits he would need because eating just replaces those calories.

And you’re making the assumption that he’s trying to alter his body composition. It’s possible he could have put on weight during the offseason, and needs to lose weight regardless if it’s water weight or fat. Playing 13 pounds heavier than normal is a huge difference from what his normal weight is, especially for his position.

Unless he pumped creatine into his veins with a syringe, he is not carrying around 13 pounds of water weight that was not there before.

By burning fat, he is attempting to alter his body composition. He will have to be very dedicated in both his diet and exercise, although that certainly isn’t foreign to him as a professional athlete. Still, it is a prohibitive task to lose approximately 6% of your total weight in that time frame, especially when that weight is fat. Carbohydrates are the first to go when you exercise, so he will have to monitor the composition of his food with a careful eye.

It’s nothing that can’t be done, but it is not going to be easily done.

Santa Teresa H.S. San Jose CA. Lots of kids played multiple sports at once.
There were quite a few football players who wrestled too. It was just conditioning, the season didn’t start till after football was done. But training started midway through football.

At my school, wrestling conditioning started the minute football ended, literally. I could see some schools overlap it

Yeah. It wasn’t really a serious suggestion, just a flashback.

doesn’t have sunday ticket. that is all.