twistmalchik: feminishblog:sugaredvenom:mattreadsthings: fatswaggin:Found this in a bathroom
twistmalchik: feminishblog: sugaredvenom: mattreadsthings: fatswaggin: Found this in a bathroom at my college. A lot of guys had eating disorders in football and wrestling at my school and even in the rec league. I remember guys taking laxatives before weigh ins even. Male eating disorder awareness ~ Wrestling is infamous for that kind of shit. It’s one of the reasons my brother left the sport— his coaches were ENCOURAGING him to engage in unsafe behavior. I’ve seen a lot of it the other way round, especially in rugby, I know several men who were encouraged to go to unsafe measures to gain weight. Yes. ^^^ The masculinization of eating disorders. I knew some wrestling guys back in high school - it became this competition as to who could lose then keep of their weight the best. The guys would have competitions to see who could go the longest without eating, and if you lost, of course, you were a “pussy” Thankfully a suspension went on while they reviewed these practices that were of course encouraged by the coaches. It got so bad at my high school that my biology teacher started threatening to Childline the wrestling coaches for encouraging the behavior. I remember trying to convince one of my friends (who was a relatively educated guy) that he needed calories and eating only tiny amounts foods that weighed very little was not a valid or healthy diet. How the crap do you win at wrestling if you’re lightheaded and weak from starving? My dad went to college on a full wrestling scholarship (back in the 80s when regulation was even more of a joke, and yes he was ED) so he has given me a little insight into how you win at wrestling while being eating disordered, since that was his job for many years.You probably know the basic idea is that you’re trying to be at the top of a lower weight class rather than being at the bottom of a higher one. So if you’re 121, you might have to wrestle people who are 130; if you’re 120, however, you’ll be wrestling people who are 111. And I think a lot of the time the coach assigns you a weight class or recruits you because they “need” people in a certain weight class, because they don’t have a lot of wrestlers at that weight. If your weight goes up, they might not have someone to pair you with? I think it has more to do with being able to compete in the first place. Also, at least in my dad’s era, literally everyone was doing it. So if you starve yourself down to 120, the 111 kid you’re wrestling is equally lightheaded because he is trying to starve himself down to 110 so he won’t have to wrestle you anymore. -- source link
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