The majority of Michigan high school wrestlers engaged in at least one potentially harmful weight loss method each week of the wrestling season. Fasting and various methods of dehydration were the primary methods of rapid weight loss. Wrestlers who lost weight each week were more likely to binge eat. Potentially harmful weight loss practices were found to be common at all grades and success levels.

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There is no difference between dynamic stretching and D+S stretching in the prevention of lower-extremity, core, and back injuries in high school male soccer athletes. Static stretching does not provide any added benefit to dynamic stretching in the prevention of injury in this population before exercise.

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