12 lbs.lost in 90 minutes?
Is that even possible? Perhaps I didn't understand that correctly.
shareI heard 2 pounds. Which, yes.
shareAs a High School wrestler I remember losing about 3 1/2 lbs in one 90 minute practice session, but I was a dehydrated 100 lb. bean pole sucking weight that always left me anemic and with no energy all the time.
I think a thicker 180 lb. wrestler could lose the 12, but it would have to be as shown in the movie.
Did the purging after the binging have anything to do with it too? I wish they would have explained how far after he ate all the room service ordered food that David came into his room. Was it a few hours, the next morning..
Needed a probability of how much calories his body would have absorbed.
I wrestled in High School as well and would typically lose 3 pounds in 90 minutes. After one particularly grueling 90 minute practice I dropped from 103 pounds to 98.. Our middle weight guys (150 - 170) would drop 6-8 pounds and our 185 pound and up guys would lose 9 or 10.
Mark Schultz wrestled at 82 kg (180 pounds) in the Olypics which means he probably walked around at 205 pounds or so and would start dropping weight in the month before a match. A guy that size could definitely go from 192 to 180 pounds in 90 minutes by sweating off a gallon and half of water.