Female at 6.2% BF. Coach is asking me to lose weight

Get your body fat tested with one of those underwater scales.

Tell your coach you will eat whatever you damn well want. Then proceed to bake sumptuous cakes and desserts for the other girls to indulge in after workouts. Do not invite your coach to join the feast even though he most certainly will want to sample the goodies.

A couple things to keep in mind:

1. Health is a gift. If you are healthy now, don't change anything. When you come back from the summer looking the same, just tell coach that you ate 'clean', and thanks for the advice. Otherwise, ignore him.

2. As you said, your coach doesn't know you and what you eat. If he is dead set on making you unhealthy, then you shouldn't be on the team. You need to learn how to talk to him as if you care, while 'shining it on' on the inside.

3. College coaches (every sport), as a whole, have ZERO job and close to zero life skills outside of coaching (if they even have coaching skills). What would your coach do for a living if he couldn't coach? I'll answer that for you - probably working at Arby's. So, you just smile and nod for the next few years if you want to be on the team, or just walk away and focus on school (what you should be doing) if he remains an a!*hole. Either way, please don't take what this joker says seriously.

Pics. Seriously. You would be shredded as hell if you were a female with 6% BF. So let’s see.

You moved the decimal place over. It was 62% and yes, you need to lose weight.

compressed wrote:

A couple things to keep in mind:

1. Health is a gift. If you are healthy now, don't change anything. When you come back from the summer looking the same, just tell coach that you ate 'clean', and thanks for the advice. Otherwise, ignore him.

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^^ I agree with this poster's advice except for the aforementioned. Do not lie to your coach. Tell him your diet is none of his bloody business followed by a quick backhand to his sunken cheek.

1. You're not 6.2%, you would be a skeleton if that were accurate.

2. Ignore the coach anyway. Most women can't even get down to 10% BF and stay healthy, and it's not worth risking your health just to be decent at the college level.

3. Hopefully this is a troll.

Outside of running, I get comments all the time on how skinny I look. But on a D1 distance team, I look pretty average, I guess. He's had the same talk with several others on the team.

You are not 6.2% body fat

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OP is a male at 62%

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klodo wrote:

You are not 6.2% body fat

http://ee85019fd821af767b70-f458b2f4b4b80b1a6f1dc7d41583c151.r97.cf1.rackcdn.com/women-bodyfat-chart-visual.jpg

Thank goodness someone posted that you’re not 6.2%

Body fat calcs are notoriously wrong. 6.2% is nearly impossible for a man and extremely unhealthy for a woman. You’re probably 15% or more which is totally fine and healthy for a female athlete. You’re healthy now and not injured, then he needs to back off.

He’s way outta line to be telling you this. The world changed when he wasn’t looking. I bet you Could sue your coach for sexual harassment and body image problems. You can get your college paid for with the settlement. Seriously, your coach is stupid AF if he thinks it’s ok to tell you to lose weight. #metoo

Who is your coach, Mugatu?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KndO-dKr5YA

Seriously, if you look overweight for a distance runner then you probably are.

Would you race in the heaviest pair of hoka shoes you could find?

So what's the uproar over losing a few pounds to help you run faster?

Your coach may be a little blunt, but you can't blame him for wanting you to be faster, not fatter.

Yes 6%. Nice troll

How many college coaches do you even know? WTF is wrong with you? Maybe her coach is wrong, but to make that statement about all college coaches is ludicrous.

As for the body fat %, it seems obvious that 6.2% is wrong. You probably were tested with calipers. I was tested once (on the same day) once with calipers and once underwater. Calipers said something like 6-8% and water said 15%. Both were wrong anyway as I was most likely around 12% (male). The underwater test is better but you have to exhale fully before being submerged and I didn't.

This is correct. I once tested at 1.8% with calipers in high school. I was skinny but that was ridiculous. Starving kids in Africa are probably over 1.8%.

Look up Kara Goucher's interviews about her former coach, Alberto Salazzar. He told her to take excess amount of thyroid hormone to lose weight after pregnancy even though it was unhealthy. She was already really skinny. Just because your coach tells you to do something, doesn't mean you should. They aren't God. Just someone you pay to assist you.

As far as relevant body fat goes, you can do the jump test. Stand in front of a full length mirror in underwear. Jump up and down, and anything that moves substantially that isn't butt or breasts is excess fat.

Just rinse your bacon before you eat it - clean!