Allowed by whom? Whose permission did you think you need to say this?
The leftist mob. You see, if you're a man or woman from the US or UK, it is absolutely unacceptable to acknowledge that body weight plays a part in the success of a distance runner. If you even mention it, you deserve to be fired, banished from the sport, sued for various types of assault, and have your life and good name ruined. You are a horrible ghoul who deserves to die.
But if you're from less developed country, it is totally fine and OP is weird for even bringing it up.
The issue is that a lot of girls and women in the U.S have serious eating disorders and it really takes a toll. If you had a daughter, you'd see it. No one thinks that Doncic or Anthony Davis (both of whom have come to camp overweight) can't take criticism about their weight and do something about it. Shift the attack to the girls and women and they associate it with their entire identity, not just a detail to fix through diet and exercise, and feel horrible about themselves about it, so lay off on their weight.
I follow college football, player weights are mentioned constantly. It is part of sport.
Unhealthy expectations do exist in our sport but I think it is because we tip toe around the subject. Also the US diet is CRAP, so it is a lot harder to be healthy and well fueled.
We see losing weight as being starved.
When I coached college I was forbidden from mentioning nutrition or weight.
Pretty hard to have a girl in your office crying about how much she has regressed asking what to do to get better knowing she gained 25 lbs over summer. Can’t say anything though.
Our athletic trainer had to have conversations with certain athletes that their old uniforms were inappropriate with their current body comp.
Sounds pretty unhealthy to tell someone they can't wear a certain type of kit because of their body composition? What does their uniform have to do with anything? It's just what they happen to be wearing while they do their event.
No wonder the girls are confused. Yes excess body fat is unhelpful for athletic performance. No you don't have to be a certain weight or percentage of body fat in order to wear buns and if people try and police that they can get in the sea.
my nanny of years, we met last year, instead of cross fit skinny, i was lifting and 20 pounds muscle heavier, and it is the shape women like as they tell you.
still nanny said, in a foreign language, you are fat! she kept saying that. so i called her fat.
we laughed calling each other fat, for days.
these type of people don't care much if you are fat.
that said, i am a hypocrit, and went to the extreme to be optimal weight, which became an obsession, and self reflected, in a moment of clarity, this never became an issue again.
and that said, coaches want to watch if an athlete develops an eating disorder, in the regular base traning, you should be five pounds or so over your competitive weigh and infact that is the goal.
There must be a way for coaches to talk about achieving an optimal weight for optimal performance as part of comprehensive training, while being sensitive to and maintaining both the physical and psychological health and well-being of the athletes.