Sports Science

Articles on health and training issues related to wrestling. Article selection and review by DrMWSpanakos, Sports Science author and lecturer.

Soviet Philosophy of Physical Training

• Read the 8 interrelated principles to the Soviet method of scientific sports preparation.

Strength and Conditioning

• The importance of isometric maximum strength in college wrestlers.
• Left ventricular morphological changes due to vigorous physical activity in highly trained football players and wrestlers: relationship with aerobic capacity.
• The Effect of a Competitive Wrestling Season on Body Weight, Hydration, and Muscular Performance in Collegiate Wrestlers

Exercise Physiology

• Physiological models to understand exercise fatigue and the adaptations that predict or enhance athletic performance.
• Effect of Carbohydrate Intake During Wrestling Practice on Upper-Body Work in Adolescents.
• Assessment of urine specific gravity across a season in college wrestlers
• Effectiveness of physician observation in determining minimum weight classifications for Pennsylvania high school wrestlers.
• Change in the capability of reactive oxygen species production by neutrophils following weight reduction in female judoists.
• The main neutrophil and neutrophil-related functions may compensate for each other following exercise-a finding from training in university judoists.
• Physiological and performance responses to tournament wrestling.
• Comparison of muscle cross-sectional areas between weight lifters and wrestlers.
• Congenital absence of the pectoralis muscles in two collegiate wrestling champions.
• Effects of a competitive wrestling season on body composition, strength, and power in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III college wrestlers.
• Glycogen depletion and lactate responses in freestyle wrestling.
• Lactate profiles of wrestlers who participated in 32nd European Free-Style Wrestling Championship in 1989.
• Body composition and isokinetic strength of professional Sumo wrestlers.
• Physiological profiles of elite senior wrestlers
• Reversible insulin resistance in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
• The contribution of maximal force production to explosive movement among young collegiate athletes.
• Weight loss and weight cycling in amateur wrestlers: implications for performance and resting metabolic rate.
• Work-time profile, blood lactate concentration and rating of perceived exertion in the 1998 Greco-Roman Wrestling World Championship

Nutrition & Weight Loss

• Nutritional Analysis: food and weight loss recommendations
• The case for low carbohydrate diets in diabetes management
• The case for not restricting saturated fat on a low carbohydrate diet
• The changing roles of dietary carbohydrates from simple to complex
• Very low-carbohydrate and low-fat diets affect fasting lipids and postprandial lipemia differently in overweight men
• Dietary stearic acid reduces cholesterol absorption and increases endogenous cholesterol excretion in hamsters fed cereal-based diets
• Dietary cholesterol and atherosclerosis
• High intake of cholesterol results in less atherogenic low-density lipoprotein particles in men and women independent of response classification
• Regular meal frequency creates more appropriate insulin sensitivity and lipid profiles compared with irregular meal frequency in healthy lean women
• The influence of the glycaemic index of breakfast and lunch on substrate utilisation during the postprandial periods and subsequent exercise
• Effects of meal frequency on body composition during weight control in boxers
• Beneficial metabolic effects of regular meal frequency on dietary thermogenesis, insulin sensitivity, and fasting lipid pro
• Decreased thermic effect of food after an irregular compared with a regular meal pattern in healthy lean women
• Deleterious effects of omitting breakfast on insulin sensitivity and fasting lipid profiles in healthy lean women
• Effect of meal pattern during food restriction on body weight loss and recovery after refeeding
• Eating disorders in the male athlete
• NCAA Rule Change Improves Weight Loss among National Championship Wrestlers.
• A comparison of bioelectrical impedance and skinfold measurements in determining minimum wrestling weights in high school wrestlers
• Weight cycling of athletes and subsequent weight gain in middleage .
• Competition and Food Restriction Effects on Oxidative Stress in Judo.
• Food restriction, performance, biochemical, psychological, and endocrine changes in judo athletes.
• The effect of exhaustion exercise on thyroid hormones and testosterone levels of elite athletes receiving oral zinc.
• Relationships between serum leptin and bone markers during stable weight, weight reduction and weight regain in male and female judoists
• The Actual State of Weight loss among the Contestants for the All Japan Wrestling Championships
• Effects of weight loss on body segment size and thigh composition in Japanese collegiate championship wrestlers
• Weight loss methods and nutritional routines in international weight-class athletes
• Update on the relationship between magnesium and exercise.

Body Composition

• Within-day and between-day variations in urine specific gravity and osmolality measurements
• Bone density in elite judoists and effects of weight cycling on bone metabolic balance
• Prevalence of risk for eating disorders in NCAA Division I wrestling.
• Effect of mode selection when using leg-to-leg BIA to estimate body fat in collegiate wrestlers.

Sports Medicine

• Wrestlers Cauliflower Ear; Care & Prevention
• Predictive factors of brachial plexus neuropathy in wrestling athletes: A prospective longitudinal study .
• Olympia participation 6 months after surgical replacement of a cruciate ligament -- optimal rehabilitation of a top athlete
• Color Doppler ultrasonography study of highly qualified wrestler and football players upper and lower extremity arteries.
• Posterior dislocation in a voluntary subluxator: a case report.
• Lower extremity vein digital photoplethysmography in highly qualified football players and wrestlers.
• No effect of moderate hypohydration or hyperthermia on anaerobic exercise performance
• Low back pain and lumbar disc degeneration are related to weight category in collegiate wrestlers.
• Descriptive epidemiology of collegiate men's wrestling injuries: National Collegiate Athletic Association Injury Surveillance System

Infectious Disease

• The Importance of a Clean Wrestling Room
• Pinning Down Skin Infections: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention in Wrestlers
• Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Competitive Sports: A Review of the Literature.
• K. Tagami, T. Kudidome, T. Kamiharma, and Y. Ichiman . Two outbreaks of systemic lymphadenitis with fever among contact sports players following wound infection. Bulletin of Institute of Health & Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba 29:67-69, 2007.
• S Bereket-Yucel . Risk of Hepatitis B Infections in Olympic Wrestling. Br J Sports Med Mar 1, 2007 .
• M. T. Hedayati, P. Afshar, T. Shokohi, and R. Aghili. A study on tinea gladiatorum in young wrestlers and dermatophytes contamination of wrestling mats from Sari-Iran. Br J Sports Med 41 (5):332-334, 2007.
• Ergin, S., C. Ergin, B. S. Erdogen, I. Kalel i, and D. Evliyaoglu. An experience from an outbreak of tinea capitis gladiatorum due to Trichophyton tonsurans . Clin Exp Dermatol 31 (2):212-214, 2006.
• T. Mochizuki, M. Kawasaki, H. Tanabe, K. Anzawa, H. Ishizaki, and J. S. Choi. Molecular epidemiology of trichophyton tonsurans isolated in Japan using RFLP analysis of non-transcribed spacer regions of ribosomal RNA genes. Jpn J Infect Dis 60 (4):188-192, 2007.
• Hedayati, M. T., Afshar , P., Shokohi, T., & Aghili, R. (2006). A study on tinea gladiatorum in young wrestlers and dermatophytes contamination of wrestling mats from Sari-Iran. Br J Sports Med. Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Competitive Sports: A Review of the Literature.
• Barr, B., Felkner, M ., & Diamong, P. M. (2006). High school athletic departments as sentinel surveillance sites for community-associated methicillin-resistant staphylococcal infections. Tex Med , 102 , 56-61.
• Questions and Answers about Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Schools
• Sports Hygiene - Guidelines to Minimize Infectious Diseases - Position Statement and Guidelines
• Prophylactic valacyclovir to prevent outbreaks of primary herpes gladiatorum at a 28-day wrestling camp .
• A study on tinea gladiatorum in young wrestlers and dermatophytes contamination of wrestling mats from Sari-Iran
• A study on tinea gladiatorum in young wrestlers and dermatophytes contamination of wrestling mats from Sari-Iran 2
• Elite college wrestlers' immune response to In Vitro Echinacea stimulation changes over the course of intense preseason training.
• Risk of Hepatitis B Infections in Olympic Wrestling
• Two outbreaks of systemic lymphadenitis with fever among contact sports players following wound infection
• Molecular epidemiology of trichophyton tonsurans isolated in Japan using RFLP analysis of non-transcribed spacer regions of ribosomal RNA genes
• High school athletic departments as sentinel surveillance sites for community-associated methicillin-resistant staphylococcal infections

Sports Psychology

• Frequency and direction of competitive anger in contact sports.
• Personality and mood of former elite male athletes--a descriptive study.

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