Lincoln McIlravy - Why Cutting Weight Is a Waste of Time
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Interview with Lincoln MclLravy: Olympic Bronze Medalist, World Champion, 3x NCAA Champion
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some really GREAT advice from one of the BEST and a class act, he almost always won, but when he lost, he stood up and displayed great sportsmanship toward the guy who beat him > Igali in Olympics. The medals gather dust and are forgottan, but the good character of a good man is never forgottan
Cutting weight just to get to a lower weight class for “better” competition is a waste of time, but if you want a starting spot on a wrestling team, sometimes that’s your only option.
No great coach tells their kids they have to cut for the sake of the team. They simply give them the option if they want to compete and can’t beat a kid in a wrestle off at the weight they’re at, they either need to move up or move down.
Offseason is a critical time for kids to put muscle on and build their strength. I find promoting and encouraging kids to try and move up weight classes during the offseason really helps their development. Weight cutting just takes a lot of the fun out of the sport.
Easy to say in retrospect. Not so easy to do when you're actively wrestling and there is huge pressure to win every time out.
Awesome information 👏
Awesome
I think the title of the video should be, "why cutting weight IMPROPERLY is a waste of time". Lincoln cut huge weight and still was successful so he's not exactly the best example.
I wonder why he’s not a head coach somewhere?
From my experience, athletes that have achieve greatness doesn’t always translate to good coaching. I’ve coached along side an Olympic Silver Medalist and another NCAA Champion; they were impatient and had a hard time bonding with their wrestlers. One was fired from missing too many practices and the other was let go due to parents complaining on how bad of a coach he was.
Lincoln was married and had kids before his college was done. He coached for a few years but went into the hotel business to support his family.
Amen and what permanent damage did we do to ourselves cutting all that weight.
Kidneys could always be an issue. I severely cut in high school for 2 seasons or so with no long term effects. Others are less fortunate.
So true but difficult to manage social pressure. Wrestlers need develop a healthy lifestyle including good diet instruction. The average American diet is unhealthy. Good nutrition, explosive power, technique and aerobic fitness wins matches. Young wrestlers need to work on technique with drills and quality coaching at an early age. Wrestling is a long-process sport and part of that process is working on your personal style.
He's just saying that because it's the responsible adult thing to say. Nobody over the age of 30 that's thinking of kids best interest tells them to cut serious weight. But if you don't you're going to get swallowed up, unless you're a complete genetic freak of nature. Taking on somebody that's 8 to 10 lb bigger than you by match time, that's a very difficult feat when they're an equal talent.
only scott steiner the genetic freak can take on guys bigger than him. i totally agree
Mark - - - forgot his last name, the Penn State 174 lb national champion and 3x finalist, he weighs like 172 yr round ? He looks small compared to opponents, but he is almost always a better wrestler
@@davidgdmz4551 there's exceptions to every rule but by and large if you're giving up size to somebody you're giving up an advantage, after all that's why they have weight classes. I can name 50 wrestlers that cut substantial weight for each one someone can name that cuts zero weight.
@@victorpistone1073true. During my senior year in high school I wrestled at 112 lbs for the first half of the season before cutting to 103’s. I was undersized for 12’s and I noticed a huge difference in strength at the higher weight class. 9 lb difference doesn’t seem like much to the average person but it is.
@@davidgdmz4551 Mark Hall is a genetic freak born to wrestle. Explosive and moves like a cat. Not the normal human.
Don’t cut weight, find a sustainable diet that you can continue once you make the weight. My biggest mistake when I was younger
I mean, you have to cut some weight some times.
Yeah but you shouldn’t have to
@@somerandomguythatlikesmeme7396 no one has to to do anything. But once you’re fully developed, like a senior in high school, if you’re within a pound or two of a weight class, some very light dehydration will likely be OK.
@@daytonasayswhat9333 well when you put it like that I guess it’s okay