Is wrestling beficicial for Xc and track ?

You'll probably be a better mid d runner

Do not wrestle. What do wrestlers do to each other? They twist opponents feet, twist opponents lower legs and twist opponents arms to attempt to take opponent down. I had a wrestler XC teammate. He tried to recruit me to wrestle; his ligament damage from wrestling encouraged me to say, "No!"

It’ll probably be more beneficial for track than XC because wrestling is all about power and more power won’t hurt you in the sprints, jumps or even middle distance if you dabble in the 800. Keep in mind wrestling shape and running shape are COMPLETELY different

I wrestled in HS, and ran XC in college. XC is much easier. Wrestling is much more exhausting. Wrestling is constant power, moving at all times with your own weight on top of you, and you are constantly fighting fatigue. XC, you can get into a rhythm, get slightly uncomfortable for a period, and at times push. Wrestling, that feeling never ends. Total exhaustion by the end.

Several Wrestlers use XC to stay stay in shape. So, I would say it's the other way around from what you are thinking about.

i broke my left big toe in wrestling when my practice partner smashed it with his knee coming in for a takedown. The trainer just taped it to the other toe and from that day forward, my shoes wear out funny. I was terrible at wrestling and would have been better off just trying to build up strength in the weight room and doing easy runs over the winter before track.

Of course it will help. You will learn the discipline to not eat and learn new ways to make yourself throw up for when you do eat.

Those are surprisingly good times for a kid who doesn’t know the first thing about running training.

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Building base mileage, and possibly tempos and hill repeats when you get closer to track season, will be much more beneficial for your running. Other posters are correct, XC is beneficial for wrestlers for overall fitness. It's not the same the other way around for distance runners and it's an injury risk.

I would advise against trying pickup wrestling your senior year. You can get seriously injured not knowing what you are doing.

How much do you weigh and how tall are you? I assume you are built like your typical distance runner. In wrestling you will go up against guys in the same weight class that are built like muscular fire hydrants. With no previous wrestling, you will get destroyed. Even if you don't wrestle in any meets the risk of injury is too high.

Use the winter season to recover from XC, keep a good base running on your own. Then rock your final season of track.

Running XC is far more beneficial to wrestling than wrestling is for running track.

Judo is safer.

A shot putter might benefit from wrestling at heavyweight.

But a distance runner, no.

Gronkowski (or somebody) was asked to run a marathon for a charity.

He said, he was currently training for 8 second explosions of energy,

and training for a marathon would be detrimental.

Wrestling is not running. The physical exertion is not the same and their

is little benefit to using wrestling as base building for running.

Swimming or biking would be more beneficial to a distance runner than wrestling.

On the other hand, if you don't intend to try for elite status and like wrestling anyway,

go ahead. You are young only once.

You're probably a troll, but how is this even a serious question? You think participating in a combat sport where the training alone will leave you battered and bruised will somehow benefit your running? That's just idiotic. You'd be limping around like a cripple at track practice.

The injury risk is quite high so I would not recommend it. Everybody says it would not be beneficial but I'm not so sure that's completely true. There are two brothers in Utah who wrestle and run xc/track. The older one, Caleb, won a few state titles in Idaho in xc/track before moving to Utah. I know that they both wrestle and Caleb has I think two or three state titles in wrestling. He is an amazing athlete as he has won multiple state titles in xc, track, and wrestling in two different states. His brother Joshua is similar. While only a sophomore this year, he competes on a state level in xc/track and wrestling. He might even have a state title in wrestling too. I'm not sure though.

You're way too quick to mess yourself up by wrestling. Work hard this winter, and you'll save some cash on college.

You will never regret going out for wrestling.There is something special about how you compete in that sport.It will toughen you physically and mentally.

I weigh 128 and am around 5’8

Yea I understand the risk in injury and truly I think I’m just gonna run on my own. I saw a couple wrestling videos and they twist their legs in extremely bad ways. Thanks for your reply!

This was actually a pretty serious question. Wrestling is pretty much the most difficult sport in the world in terms of stamina and endurance. What do track runners and xc runners need ? Stam and endurance. Probably just working out with them would be benificial but actually wrestling would get me injured.

You’re too good at running to waste time wrestling