Wrestling Athletes Training CHallenges

Background A considerable number of wrestling athletes in all age groups are faced with and the subsequent consequences during training and competition. So, the WATCH project identified the gaps in the strategies used for the prevention of musculoskeletal injuries in wrestling it proposed specific exercise drills and a concomitant knowledge cultivation of the wrestling athlete body weight control contributing in this way to a safer participation in wrestling and sports. Objectives The Wrestling Athletes Training Challenges (WATCH) project was based on the interdisciplinary approach and its aim was to focus on the area of “protecting athletes –especially the youngest– from health and safety hazards by improving training and competition ”conditions” while is focusing on an European grass-root sport, the wrestling. Implementation The main goal of theWATCH project was to create an open educational innovative approach for wrestling injury prevention, strategies while fostering regulation skills for weight control related to wrestlers, providing key techniques for the modern wrestling athletes and exercise experts (wrestling trainers, athletic trainers, physiotherapists etc). Achievements Thus, the WATCH project aimed to actively contribute to at the prevention of musculoskeletal injuries in sports offering a massive open online course for the protection of all athletes (especially the young male and female ones) enhancing the knowledge and increasing the awareness of all wrestling sport involved specialists,as regards the role of preventive strategies,at the same time upgrading them with proper weight control counselling skills and finally focusing to European grass-root sport