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Nutritional guidelines for wrestlers: nutrient intake, making weight, recovery strategies and supplementation.
Abstract
<p>Wrestling is a very popular Olympic sport, however up to date there are no studies to include findings of original researches about wrestlers’ nutrition, weight management and supplementation. In this review we attempt to concentrate the existing literature about all aspects of wrestler’s diet and draw evidence based conclusions about optimum nutritional practices that could benefit these athletes. Nutrient intake, weight manipulation, recovery strategies and dietary supplementation are the main sections that are examined here. Finally, we provide a practical nutritional guide for dietitians, coaches and wrestlers which covers the full year training macro-cycle needs, from pre-season to competition.</p>