Monday, April 1, 2013

Optimum Nutrition: Is There Such a Thing for Wrestlers?

By Rob Sutter


I can't help but feel like people in professional wrestling have stayed true to a specific diet before the 2000's rolled around. These athletes stayed to a pretty solid diet all-around and there wasn't much room on the road for any other. Recently, a tread has occurred and people have started to eat more healthfully than they did in the past. Everyone has their own opinion of what optimum nutrition is and now the wrestling business has seen more than just one solid example in recent memory.

I'd like to take you back to the 80's when it seemed like there wasn't a single noteworthy wrestler who didn't possess an overly muscular physique. These people took pride in being behemoths, even though I found that they weren't exactly captivating in the ring. Personal opinions aside, it was apparent that these people ate a great deal and I have to believe that meat was one of the bigger options for them. On the road, though, there seems to be little room for compromise.

These days, though, you can make a case about there being many examples of the optimum nutrition people take up. I believe the 2000's can now be a time when smaller, more athletic wrestlers have made it into the mainstream. They seemed to make great use of what they had, whether it was their own physical prowess or usage of supplements supplied by companies like Muscular Development. In comparison to the diets back in the day, though, how do these particular ones match up?

If you were to ask me what I believe this change was a response to, I could imagine a few answers being legitimate. Maybe these workers are aware of the untimely deaths of the people who had stepped into the ring before them and want to live as healthy as possible. Perhaps it's the idea that they have to perform at high levels, which cannot be so easily done if a strong diet is not in place. They have potential; it's just a matter of meeting the levels which they had set for themselves.

Let's say if a wrestler decides to go vegan, even though protein is typically needed in order to build and retain muscle. This is not a problem for those who have their optimum nutrition in mind, as they can invest in items in order to take care of that otherwise missing nutrient. It's almost like people can go about whatever diet they want, as long as it fits within their profession, not to mention their budget. You only have to make certain that you're taking in the right components.




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