This week's show is a special interview with the fat loss troubleshooter Leigh Peele.
Leigh specialises in helping people in any walk of life lose weight when they have tried everything else and given up. She does this through personal training clients and her excellent fat loss manual: The Fat Loss Troubleshoot. We at miCricketCoach know a lot of readers and listeners want to lose a bit of weight but don't want to try the latest fad diet so we thought an interview with Leigh would clear things up.
In the show we discuss:
- Why cricketers should be interested in getting lean
- Simple ways to lose weight
- What to do if nothing works
- Losing weight during the cricket season
- How to stop the post-tea sugar crash
- Electrolyte balance and vitamin D
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This is the wrong approach for a naturally big guy. The focus should be on strength, speed, agility and work capacity not on getting lean. Getting in better 'shape' is a result of training and nutrition ( i dont like to use the misleading word diet as that is associated with calorie restriction and starvation simply not appropriate for a sportsperson) Not everybody will be lean and fit into this stereotype.
Cricketers are not figure athletes.....
What approach are you referring to peter?
David, the approach that cricketers should be lean and focus on weight loss .
I agree that fat loss should not be the focus for cricketers, but a lot of people would like to lose weight for various reasons (cricket and non-cricket related) so it's a valid topic for discussion is it not?
However to say cricketers should not be lean is to suggest they should be fat! As we discuss in the beginning of the interview, having a favourable body composition leads to better speed and power while reducing injury risk. Who would not want that? Even if you are not a serious cricketer, to be leaner is better for your health and looks (which is the motivation for a lot of people at every level of the game whether they admit it or not).
Perhaps it's my mistake. At no point do Leigh or I suggest cricketers should be 6% body fat and competing in body building contests. That would be wrong. I should have made that clearer.
I am saying that cricketers should not be stereotyped as proposed by trainers like Leigh. This is cricket specific and we are not talking about weight loss for a general population for health reasons. Most competitive cricketers are already fitter than the general population. While a favorable body composition will help a cricketer, that is not the end in itself. The body composition will be different for various individuals and even a caliper test for fat percentage is inaccurate. That is not even necessary. The right training program and lifestyle may help the player but that weight loss website is not the way to go. Replace the first point of why cricketers should be interested in getting "lean" with getting "strong." And replace simple ways to lose weight to simple ways to get stronger.
I agree on every point apart from your one about stereotyping by Leigh. I didn't hear that come across in the interview. Perhaps I misunderstood where Leigh was coming from but I felt she was sympathetic to the needs of cricket throughout within the context of a club level cricketer who wanted to lose weight. Didn't you peter?
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