My coach thinks I'm overweight,,,,,am I???

Monkeyshines wrote:

Notafatty wrote:

I'm 5-7 140 lb. My body type is very mesomorphic --if you saw pictures of my relatives they all had big shoulders, narrow hips, and muscled legs.

Damn, girl. You sound like a goddess.

This actually made me laugh out loud. Many congrats

we need pictures,we dont need the face but just body shots naked body shots would be best so we can really see if your overweight

Your coach is a numb nut if he did say something so idiotic.

The numbers you want to be concerned with are your body composition #'s, your lifting #'s (particularly in the power clean, back squat, and bench), your standing LJ, and 5 bound distances, and most importantly your RACE TIMES and PLACES.

I hate it when I hear a coach make comments like that. It's just plain ignorant on so many levels. Tell him you'll race him in a 100 and when you kick his ass he can agree to never speak again. We got your back Champ!

Your "coach" should be reprimanded for going any where NEAR that topic with a high school female athlete. Not with a sprinter, a distance runner, or the team waterboy/girl. You should print out a few of these responses and give them to your school's athletic director. Guiding you in a positive manner, suggesting some type of training, core work, recovery work, and healthy nutritional ideas is what your "coach" should be doing for you...not to nag about some misinformed ideas concerning weight. Poor judgement on his part. Maybe he should be given an opportunity to be educated on the subject of inappropriate behavior as it pertains to the coach/high school athlete relationship.. but if I were his supervisor, I would be inclined to fire him on the spot.

Good luck with the remainder of your high school career!

Notafatty wrote:

My coach thinks I'm overweight,,,,,am I???

Yes.

First you're 16 so you are in a growth zone. You are fit as noted by being a state finalist. You feel comfortable in your body.

I don't think your coach should pressure you to loose weight under any set of reasonings.

Enjoy running,stay fit and your weight will settle at the right point automaticly. The fitter you get the more your body automaticly shapes itself for that higher fitness level - you might even gain some weight... who knows.

You're 16 enjoy the pure joy of the sport, scales and stopwatches mean nothing.

Notafatty wrote:

I'm female, 16 years old. I'm a sprinter (100-200-400) and ranked in the top 5 in state. I'm 5-7 140 lb. My body type is very mesomorphic --if you saw pictures of my relatives they all had big shoulders, narrow hips, and muscled legs. My coach is a distance runner and he's constantly nagging at me to drop 5 to 10 lbs. He says my weight slows me down. I feel good, not porky or sluggish. I tried to find out the height and weight of other girl sprinters or maybe some elites. If you are a girl sprinter can you post your height and weight? Do you think I'm too heavy?

Serious posts please!

Now before everyone jumps on the "don't tell girls to lose weight" bandwagon we would need some more information. Are you a better 100/200 runner or a better 400 runner? If you are a better short distance sprinter you could probably afford to drop 5 pounds, if you're a 400 runner maybe 5 to 8, certainly nothing more than that. There is absolutely nothing wrong with losing weight in high school. What is wrong is when a coach tells a girl to lose some weight and she goes all ballistic and becomes anorexic. That is NOT the coaches’ fault. Women who become anorexic are a lit fuse that will blow up regardless of what a coach says.

How about try this. Lose 5 lbs see if you improve. If not put it back. Wow, that wasn't so hard now was it?

Thank you to everyone who posted. I just had a bodyfat test and I'm at 19.2% which is in the "excellent" zone. I also had a talk with my coach and showed him the results and he agreed that although I'm probably carrying too much mass for a distance runner I'm good for a sprinter and he was pleased with the body fat results. I told him I'd keep a log of my diet this summer to see if there could be any improvements. He said he didn't want to upset me but wanted to see me perform at my best and hopefully get top 3 in state next year. So I think we are both good with this and thank you for all the comments.

Made a mistake! It's 16.2% not 19.2%!

16.2 is good for an athlete from what I have read. Good for you talking this over with your coach instead of getting all pissy and whiny behind his back. That was a mature thing to do. I think he was wrong in telling you were fat but it sounds like you two got it worked out. Good luck next year and hope you win state!

Coaches who are distance runners speak with a different kind of dialect than "NORMAL" people. Too fat means Too fast.

Loose 10 pounds is a prediction. He knows you can get 10% better soon.

Notafatty, 16.2 is good. Keep up the good work! You sound like you are trainin' hard and on the right track!

GerrytheJogger wrote:

Coaches who are distance runners speak with a different kind of dialect than "NORMAL" people. Too fat means Too fast.

Loose 10 pounds is a prediction. He knows you can get 10% better soon.

I don't understand what you mean.

I am 5-8 and was about 141-144. Bigger than usual but what the hell. I was a 5 time All American.

But I am a dude and was a distance runner...so maybe it isn't relevant.

I think what he is trying to say is...um, never mind

It depends on the size of your balls really :)

TurnHimIn wrote:

Your "coach" should be reprimanded for going any where NEAR that topic with a high school female athlete. Not with a sprinter, a distance runner, or the team waterboy/girl. You should print out a few of these responses and give them to your school's athletic director. Guiding you in a positive manner, suggesting some type of training, core work, recovery work, and healthy nutritional ideas is what your "coach" should be doing for you...not to nag about some misinformed ideas concerning weight. Poor judgement on his part. Maybe he should be given an opportunity to be educated on the subject of inappropriate behavior as it pertains to the coach/high school athlete relationship.. but if I were his supervisor, I would be inclined to fire him on the spot. Good luck with the remainder of your high school career!

Well we don't know the whole story here. Probably the OP could stand to lose 5 pounds, or thinks she could, and has said so to her teammates, and perhaps that opinion has drifted to the coach, and maybe now the coach is just giving moral support. No one's calling her a fattie.

I'm a bit concerned about the ideological cant (what Orwell called 'duckspeak') in the following: 'given an opportunity to educated on the subject of inappropriate behavior as it pertains...'

'Educated'? You mean bullied, browbeated, propagandized? Sent to a re-education camp, perhaps?

'Inappropriate behavior'? A coach's advice about an athlete's physical condition--how could offering this advice be considered inappropriate? Proposing a Brazilian bikini wax in the locker room--now that could be construed as inappropriate behavior. Advice on sport-specific physical training is not.

To the idiot from "actionagainstobesity.com"...why are you telling this girl that she is obese??? She is not even close to being obese! Her weight is normal for an athletic sprinter- muscle weighs more than fat! For example, I too am an avid runner, but no where near the elite level this girl is at (short, fast distances, under 3 miles) and I also lift weights regularly. Now, I am 5'7" and I weigh 160lbs!!! But, I'm at 19% body fat!!! To be considered "obese", you would be over 30% body fat! This girl weighs way less than I do, and I guarantee you that she is not over 20% body fat! In fact, even if she was, under 25% is considered healthy for females and certainly no where near obese. To the girl who posted this question originally- don't listen to people like this who clearly are projecting their own body image issues onto others!

MeMe Roth wrote:

Yes, you are not a good role model for young rfemale unners to look up to. You will have problems with diabetes and high blood pressure and high cholesterol unless you lose weight now.

http://www.actionagainstobesity.com

...but it sounds like your coach has some issues of his own.