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Do you have studies on that? I don't want to be a brat, but I would really like to know. Because that sounds like some risky statement - not good off-ice training, not good physiotherapy - but a strict diet is the way to go? Being underweight is the way to go in order to prevent injuries?Less weight is less pressure on the joints- especially with jumping. As a regular person, when I was really heavy I had a lot of problems with my joints. When I lost weight the pain was gone- and returns if I put on pounds.
The manner in which Jenny kept her weight down was counterproductive to her health. However a lighter body does help prevent injury. Both Baboo and Elvis are robust skaters but both had to deal with a lot of injury. Evan is much thinner after having sustained his stress fracture in his hip than he was earlier in his career.
Keeping a strict diet during the competitive years is probably the best preventative against injury. A skater can always return to a normal diet after the competitive years, but hip, knee and back injuries can last forever and affect everyday life.
The way you describe it, it means that it is best to be underweight. Because Joubert is in the lower normal weight. I know it is better for the joints to be of normal weight. But it is better to be underweight? Would Joubert have been less injured (by the way, I don't think he has suffered more injuries than others. Lysacek has always had a hip problemm, now the stress fracture, Weir a foot and back problem, Lambiel has his knees, Takahashi with his knees, Yagudin with his hip, Plushenko with his knees, Buttle with his back...) if he would weigh 65kg at his height?