Posted on 03/19/2009 9:02:01 AM PDT by ventanax5
So let’s add another item to the list of impossibles: I have lost more than 20 pounds in less than 24 hours on more than a dozen occasions.
The most extreme example was 33 lbs. — from 185 lbs. to 152 lbs. — in less than 20 hours, which produced a rather unpleasant 120 beat-per-minute resting pulse while attempting to sleep.
In 1999, I was a gold medalist at the Sanshou (Chinese kickboxing) national championships in the 165-lb. weight class (here is a video sample of Sanshou). This is perhaps the most controversial accomplishment in the 4HWW, as I make it clear:
I arrived the on-site at 187 lbs., weighed in at 165 lbs., and stepped on the platform to compete the next morning weighing 193 lbs.
This post will explain exactly how it’s done — the techniques, the “drugs”, the science — and include excerpts from a series of articles I wrote for Powerlifting USA in 2004 called “The New Technology of Water”. Even if you have no need to cut weight, after reading this, you will know more about organ function and hydration than 99% of all athletes in the world…
(Excerpt) Read more at fourhourworkweek.com ...
This just doesn’t even make good sense.
It will cost you an arm and a leg.
I lost 15 pounds during my divorce.
Apparently that’s how much a soul weighs ;)
think I’ll stick to eating right and walking 5 miles per day... eeks!!
Wouldn’t drinking ocean water or wandering around aimlessly in the desert during the day with no water do the same thing?
It’s not all that expensive to rent a wood chipper!
Interesting, especially the section about immersing in hot water for 10 minutes at a time. I used to suck weight with a rubber suit and running circles in a hot room or doing calisthenics in a sauna. IMO, its safer than what this guy is suggesting, but who knows? In retrospect its all pretty stupid behavior.
The easy way to stop this madness is to require athletes to weigh-in just a few minutes before a competition. Done.
Nowadays, High schools have wrestlers weigh in before the season and restrict their weekly weight loss and limit the total loss by measuring body fat percentage. Dehydration is discouraged, although there is some cheating. But not like when I was younger, its a miracle I came out of my teens in one piece.
My husband once lost about four or five pounds as a teen to fit into his wrestling weight division. It was all water weight and he says it was a stupid thing to do. But, he did accomplish it in a day.
Used to be that dropping anything less than 15 lbs from natural weight was almost cowardly. Then you were expected to drop another weight class after Christmas.
We didn’t even know the word “bulimia” but we sure practiced it.
At least on the surface at the high school level, the sport is safer now.
Unless he took diuretics, it might not have been so stupid after all. It's easy to lose 5 pounds in two days just by drinking more water. Most people are dehydrated to one degree or the other. When we are dehydrated, our bodies retain water and we don't feel thirsty. I usually drink two liters of water per day and am always thirsty. When I don't drink as much water, my thirst stops and I gain 4 or 5 pounds in a day or two.
What I mean is that he dehydrated himself.
In high school, there was this wrestler dude I knew who was chewing gum and spitting in a towel all day to drop weight. It was really gross. While I find little appeal in watching or playing most organized sports, wrestling seems especially baffling.
>I used to suck weight with a rubber suit and running circles in a hot room or doing calisthenics in a sauna. IMO, its safer than what this guy is suggesting, but who knows?
I have the opposite problem, that is gaining [healthy] weight. (I’m kind of a beanpole.)
I’m a little dehydrated right now, so I’m wondering if the water uptake method could be used to replenish some of that.
Very common attitude amongst the ignorant.
Oh. That's not good. The paradox is that he could have acheived the same results in a couple of days by drinking lots of water.
I think it was within less than 24 hours. But, thanks for the tip. It’s good advice.
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