cgf wrote:FOB wrote:cgf wrote:
Yeah. One of my favorite players, Max Kruse, recently came out of retirement to play for a lower division team and the pics of how much weight he put on after just 9 months of no longer running a marathon or two a week went viral lol.
Yeah...pretty OT but just wanted to jump in quick and say that the way the media positioned that picture is pretty disingenuous and sensationalist. He's certainly not as lean as he used to be but nowhere near what the above picture would suggest: https://www.imago-images.com/offers/622325/Sports/Football/Football,-Kreisliga-A,-BSV-Al-Dersimspor,-Training-with-Max-Kruse-?db=sport
Anyways, back to topic. Excited for the games tonight!
Oh it was definitely a very unfavorable angle...but a lot of footballers plump up as soon as they're no longer burning as crazy a number of calories as they do during their playing days, because they do do an unreal amount of running during their careers.
I've heard a ton of former athletes in cardio-centric sports saying the biggest change they had to make after retirement was reducing food volume. When you're running 9-10 miles a day regularly you can just binge anytime you feel like it. If you keep that up after you retire you balloon fast