High School And College Athletes

In fact, Christopher Bergland stresses that being active as children will lead to being healthy adults, as well as having lifelong habits of working out. Gymnasts definitely are active, as seen in the practice hours mentioned in the first paragraph. In gymnastics, flipping around requires muscle, flexibility, and strength; qualities that are easily transferable to other sports as well. Rita Wieber, the mother of Jordyn Wieber, says nutrition is very important for a gymnast. “Eat what she needs to perform at her best...be as healthy as possible,” she writes. Gymnasts usually do their sport until their mid-teens...being told about eating healthy will have a lasting impact on them. On the contrary, doctors and parents argue that because of the nature of gymnastics, gymnasts are susceptible to eating disorders. Actually, gymnasts who get eating disorders are most likely nagged by the coach to lose weight and become stronger. If the coach is verbally abusive and crude, should the gymnast even be training under them? Probably not! Anyways, gymnasts are not likely to be affected by anorexia, bulimia, and the like because gymnastics enriches confidence. Think about it- on beam, gymnasts are flipping on a four feet high, four inches wide piece of wood in front of judges. They put in their hardest work to get the best score possible, and they know it. Furthermore, healthy habits are just a few of the life skills

Wrestling is a sport about hard work and dedication. Some people say that wrestling is the hardest sport in high school because the sport is mostly a mind game. If you let someone get in your head or the workouts get in your head, then you have already lost the fight. Just like in any situation in your life, if you let the situation get the better of you, you lost.

Although some think the decision to go to the National Basketball Association should be solely in the hands of the players and although current efforts ensure that basketball players are in college for at least one year, the one-and-done rule needs to be revised because it destabilizes the college basketball system, leaves players without a backup plan, and causes players to lack the wisdom to make wise financial and life decisions.

Rodeo is a very thrilling, exciting, and dangerous sport. During rodeos, one meets many new people, travels across the United States of America, and has the glorious Friday night lights shining down on them. During high school rodeo and college rodeo athletes must meet different levels of expectations; their performance because of scholarships or money, their coaches or parent’s expectations, and academic success. Expectations for college rodeo athletes are higher than the expectations for high school rodeo athletes. First off, high school contestants do not have to perform great to keep scholarships given to them. High school rodeo athletes are not on scholarship to rodeo. The money they use to rodeo comes from the contestant and his parents. Therefore, the contestant only

Imagine you are a salesman and just made an enormous sell but you don’t receive any of the money you just brought in to your company. Well being an athlete at a top program is very similar to that scenario. College athletics is a billion dollar industry, universities generate so much revenue during the year it would only be fair if the players received a part of their share. On the other hand people believe athletic scholarships, meal plans, tutors, and a roof over their head is more than enough compensation.

ll. College Athletes are inherently better off with accepting scholarships versus a salary while participating in sports.

College athletes are finally getting attention on the fact that they are not paid. I believe that whether or not it is college or pro sports they deserve a salary. These players put their heart and soul on the field and get nothing in return. In the articles “Athletes New Day” by Paul Marx and “College Athletes Should Not Be Paid” by Warren Hartenstine, the reasons for college athletes to be paid are very evident. No matter the case, if the students move on to pro sports or not after college, they should be entitled to some pay for their contributions. College athletes deserve to be compensated for their playtime in these sports, sales of products with their name on it, and even compensation for their injuries.

However, the important factor may not be dieting per se, but rather the situation in which the performer is told to lose weight, the words used and whether the athlete receives guidance. It is very worrying to experience how unprofessionally some professional teachers and trainers may behave. There is anecdotal evidence of how they set their own standards for body shape and weight, and pass on abnormal eating and dieting myths to the new generations of performers.

The body requires a lot of nutrients to be able to perform at its highest potential. It is terrible to be competing and feel that your body is struggling because of a lack of nutrition. However, the current school rules make getting proper food difficult. According to Danelle Swearingen’s article “Eating Before Competition”, the body should be allowed between two and three hours before competing to digest a small meal. But what if a student needs to compete at three thirty after school? Then they should eat before one thirty. However, they would be in class at this time and unable to give their body what it needs. Additionally the meals that should be eaten in preparation for competition are quite large. In David Rath’s article “Pre-Competition Eating”, the math and science behind the meals a person should eat before competition is outlined. On average, a 150 pound person should eat around 272 grams of carbohydrates before a competition. There are about fifteen carbohydrates in a piece of bread. These meals are not just something that can be eaten quickly between classes. If students can not eat in class, they will be deprived the ability perform the best they could in

An essential part of living a healthy life and managing a healthy body is participating in routine weight training. Many times throughout our lives we find ourselves eating unhealthy and forgetting that being active daily is essential to our health. As individuals go through their lives, they may consider going on a diet but in doing so, they are under the impression that eating healthy is the only essential aspect of staying healthy. This is incorrect due to the fact that routine weight training is what tones up the body, keeps the body in shape, and increases physical fitness overall. Along with these things, routine

The excitement rose, nerves became as present as an imaginary figure sitting on your shoulder. Anticipating the moment when you got to step off the bus onto the campus of the drake stadium. Thinking this is where big athletes run, celebrities, and now you get a chance to run on this track. I thought about the other athletes across the world who wouldn't get the chance to have such an awesome experience that I got. It was a surreal moment in my life and I will never forget it. Being only a freshman in highschool I got to compete with some of the most legendary athletes to ever run in the state of Iowa.

In fact, one third of high school wrestlers starve themselves to “make weight”(WebMd Health par. 14). High school wrestling coaches encourage less eating, and low water intake, so that the wrestlers can get into a lower weight class. And unlike with most sports, where the athletes stop their behavior after the sports season is over, wrestlers tend to continue there behavior all year round. An average wrestler’s body fat is three percent lower than a normal high school student’s(WebMD Health par. 14).

Food means the world to wrestlers during the wrestling season. During the wrestling season wrestlers have to watch their weight for five months so they can stay in their weight class. Some wrestlers have to lose 5 or more pounds before every tournament. My freshman, sophomore, and Junior I was losing six to ten pounds in a couple days before the tournament. When I wrestled, I had to starve myself for a day or two before we weighed in. We weigh in as a team and if one person is overweight then we weight for them to loss the weight that they are over.

Bodybuilding takes a lot of discipline in the sense of when workouts are, diet planning, and timing on when to eat. Ryan breaks it everything down for you so that it’s more a lifestyle then it is a chore. Bodybuilding has also taken a rise in the sport through the younger athletes, sharing their determination and success on social media molding themselves into a living inspiration. Which drives amateur athletes to work harder and inspires non-athletes to become on and start their own journey. Bodybuilding contains a wide age range, it can start from 15 and go all the way up to the 50’s, it also contains people that tart rom all different shapes and sizes of body

There are only two days until weigh ins and wrestlers have to worry about cutting eight more pounds while sitting in a sauna, dripping with sweat. The only way most wrestlers know how to cut so much weight in such little time is through cutting water weight. Most teens would rather suffer for a couple days before weigh ins, rather than lose weight safely and effectively. A major problem in the sport of wrestling is that the athletes are not taught the proper way of managing weight. When most people want to lose weight, they just eat healthier and exercise more. For the average human, it should not be too hard to go on a diet if one wants to lose weight badly enough. There is no timetable for when one has to lose the weight. Although one might