Did you have a pre-match go-to meal?

[Jimmy Cinnabon 224]

And if so, what was it and when did you consume it?

[TobusRex 1,836]

Sour dough bread rolls (usually 2 of 'em), some chunks of sharp cheddar cheese and Italian sausage. I made little sandwiches out of them. I usually ate them right after weighing in.

[Yellow_Medal 189]

Spaghetti with meat / pasta sauce and orange juice jello. 

[BigTenFanboy 1,710]

peanut butter and jelly sandwhich, Bagel with cream cheese, gatorade/pedialyte.

[Rocep 44]

Not a meal, but I always drank not from concentrate orange juice on match/tournament days. 

[hammerlockthree 2,039]

I was always a big escargot guy post weigh in. 

Edited December 27, 2018 by hammerlockthree

[krippler 14]

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[Idaho 790]

Bear claws, taco salad, meatball sandwich and a six pack of Milwaukee. After the appetizer I usually had something more solid right before the match. 

[gowrestle 634]

Hydration only. Food will deprive blood from delivering energy to muscles. 

[HokieFan 88]

My best recollection is that we went directly from weigh-ins to the JV matches and then the varsity dual.  So there wasn't a lot of time.  I always had 2 or 3 pop tarts and a big gatorade.  The pop tarts were easy on the stomach  after starving myself, and had plenty of carbs.  Energy gels would probably have been ideal but they either didn't exist at the time or I didn't know about them.

[treep2000 903]

I went to a pretty decent wrestling high school.  Our coach was very strict with us, and worked with parents to require us to follow his post weigh in nutrition strategy:

1.)  Exceed energy drink

2.)  Noodle soup (chicken)

3.)  Strawberry and Bananas fruit mix

Super easy on stomach, tasted good, and we looked forward to it. 

He got results, no question.  

[rpbobcat 53]

When I was in college we weighed in, in the morning,for afternoon matches.

Except for matches where we stayed overnight,we  weighted in ,in our own locker room,with the Head Coach supervising.

That gave a use a few hours to hydrate and have a pre-match meal.

Usually it was a bottle of Gatrorade, as soon as you stepped off the scale.

Then the whole team was off to the local  IHOP.

 

Edited December 27, 2018 by rpbobcat

[TobusRex 1,836]

11 hours ago, Idaho said:

Bear claws, taco salad, meatball sandwich and a six pack of Milwaukee. After the appetizer I usually had something more solid right before the match. 

 

Brilliant plan. If your opponent applies any pressure whatsoever to your midsection you will...."mass expel" various noxious gasses from the ignoble orifice, possibly rendering him helpless and subject to a "shock" pin.

[Idaho 790]

10 minutes ago, TobusRex said:

 

Brilliant plan. If your opponent applies any pressure whatsoever to your midsection you will...."mass expel" various noxious gasses from the ignoble orifice, possibly rendering him helpless and subject to a "shock" pin.

If you can't win...make them suffer. 

[Zebra 545]

Snickers and an orange Gatorade about 1 hour before a match.

[jchapman 1,092]

11 hours ago, Idaho said:

Bear claws, taco salad, meatball sandwich and a six pack of Milwaukee. After the appetizer I usually had something more solid right before the match. 

Old Milwaukee or Milwaukee’s Best?  Trust me, it matters.

[PSUSMC 173]

4 hours ago, rpbobcat said:

When I was in college we weighed in, in the morning,for afternoon matches.

Except for matches where we stayed overnight,we  weighted in ,in our own locker room,with the Head Coach supervising.

That gave a use a few hours to hydrate and have a pre-match meal.

Usually it was a bottle of Gatrorade, as soon as you stepped off the scale.

Then the whole team was off to the local  IHOP.

 

Strawberry waffles at IHOP.

That stomach pain in the 1st match of tournaments had to be the cut, never the IHOP breakfast!

[Idaho 790]

2 hours ago, jchapman said:

Old Milwaukee or Milwaukee’s Best?  Trust me, it matters.

Depends on who I was wrestling. 

[jammen 304]

I usually have a ribeye steak, baked potato, lettuce salad with bleu cheese dressing, and a beer before I turn on the live stream.

[Zebra 545]

7 minutes ago, jammen said:

I usually have a ribeye steak, baked potato, lettuce salad with bleu cheese dressing, and a beer before I turn on the live stream.

Yea well, that blue cheese stuff has to go. Nasty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Witherman 359]

For duals it was usually Gatorade, small lunch meat sandwich (either subway or homemade) and some form of fruit. 

On tournament days in high school one of the team moms would make breakfast of some sort (egg scrambolia, breakfast casserole, etc) and again fruit, some carbs. 

[TobusRex 1,836]

8 hours ago, Idaho said:

If you can't win...make them suffer. 

 

I had a rival in JH that smelled like stinky sweat socks. That guy REEKED. One of his teammates told me it was intentional.

[custom fitch 48]

The meals I looked forward to most were in the mornings before an evening dual, directly after weighing in: A bowl or two of cereal, english muffin covered with butter, and chocolate milk. 

[TobusRex 1,836]

8 hours ago, jchapman said:

Old Milwaukee or Milwaukee’s Best?  Trust me, it matters.

 

I think better names for those beers might be "Old Horsepiss" and "Horsepiss's Best"!