Losing 5% of body weight quickly makes muscle damage worse than just training hard without losing weight.

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Acute muscle damage as a metabolic response to rapid weight loss in wrestlers

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Wrestlers who lost 5% of their body weight quickly had more muscle damage than when they only trained hard without losing weight, so the weight loss made their muscles more damaged.

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Acute muscle damage as a metabolic response to rapid weight loss in wrestlers

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DOI: 10.2478/bhk-2024-0010

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