Grant Fisher is no doubt skinny, but he looks strong, not gaunt. The whole "Gaunt is beautiful" trope that Coaches like to pound into their athletes is not only dumb, but dangerous.
My freshman year at the naval academy I had a legit eating disorder due, in no small part, to Coach Cantello's obsession with food and weight.
Some coaches promote old-school ways of obsessing over body weight: it's damaging to athletes and their performance. Strength training and healthier eating habits are becoming more mainstream. Its basic sports psychology and exercise physiology to know that obsessing over caloric intake and BMI does little to help your athlete perform and it seriously increases their chance of burnout, injury, and extended fatigue. Yes, weight plays a big factor in performance up to a certain point. The issue is controlling coaches who push way past that to the point where it becomes damaging.
As for "choosing" to have an eating disorder ... uh, no. It's a pretty complex combination of genetics, culture, and what you're being told by your coaches who you TRUST to train you in a healthy, effective way. Oooooh but that's a lot of nuance and critical thinking for an internet forum.
Maybe in highschool, but now I'd guess he looks to be about the 145-150 range. He kinda has more of a build that is typical in cycling, pretty lean on top but some bigger stronger legs.
Some coaches promote old-school ways of obsessing over body weight: it's damaging to athletes and their performance. Strength training and healthier eating habits are becoming more mainstream. Its basic sports psychology and exercise physiology to know that obsessing over caloric intake and BMI does little to help your athlete perform and it seriously increases their chance of burnout, injury, and extended fatigue. Yes, weight plays a big factor in performance up to a certain point. The issue is controlling coaches who push way past that to the point where it becomes damaging.
As for "choosing" to have an eating disorder ... uh, no. It's a pretty complex combination of genetics, culture, and what you're being told by your coaches who you TRUST to train you in a healthy, effective way. Oooooh but that's a lot of nuance and critical thinking for an internet forum.
No coach should chastise someone about their weight. However, one can’t deny that weight does play a significant factor when it is changed abruptly due to in some cases hormonal changes. Let’s not pretend that this doesn’t greatly affect female athletes. I have a girl who was a pretty fast runner right off the bat. She started getting Injury after injury then noticed some hormonal changes which I think caused some of these injured due to hips/pelvic moving. All of sudden she’s a shell of what she was before. It’s like night and day. Should I tell her to lose weight absolutely not, would it help, most likely. I Believe someone in this situation already knows the change and how it’s affecting them and so theirs no need to tell them. They’ll either figure it out or not. Do not put your coaching career on the line for one athlete. Focus on the ones that are healthy and support the ones that aren’t positively motivate them and hope for the best. Be there for them until they can be there for you(perform well) and put your energy into the ones that are ready to perform at a high level.
I highly doubt Grant Fisher is 134 pounds at 5'10" It is my opinion he is a bit shorter. It is my opinion he is heavier than 134 pounds. I am an elite level State Fair caliber weight guesser. I have G. Fisher at 5'9 3/4" 151 lbs.
I highly doubt Grant Fisher is 134 pounds at 5'10" It is my opinion he is a bit shorter. It is my opinion he is heavier than 134 pounds. I am an elite level State Fair caliber weight guesser. I have G. Fisher at 5'9 3/4" 151 lbs.
I really want this to be true. The state fair caliber weight guesser part.
Grant Fisher is no doubt skinny, but he looks strong, not gaunt. The whole "Gaunt is beautiful" trope that Coaches like to pound into their athletes is not only dumb, but dangerous.
My freshman year at the naval academy I had a legit eating disorder due, in no small part, to Coach Cantello's obsession with food and weight.
Also, not even the most weight crazed coach would say fisher is overweight — he’s more muscular and built thicker than most guys of his caliber. That doesn’t mean there’s much extra weight on him. Those are very different things
Some coaches promote old-school ways of obsessing over body weight: it's damaging to athletes and their performance. Strength training and healthier eating habits are becoming more mainstream. Its basic sports psychology and exercise physiology to know that obsessing over caloric intake and BMI does little to help your athlete perform and it seriously increases their chance of burnout, injury, and extended fatigue. Yes, weight plays a big factor in performance up to a certain point. The issue is controlling coaches who push way past that to the point where it becomes damaging.
As for "choosing" to have an eating disorder ... uh, no. It's a pretty complex combination of genetics, culture, and what you're being told by your coaches who you TRUST to train you in a healthy, effective way. Oooooh but that's a lot of nuance and critical thinking for an internet forum.
Someone needs to drill this into Salazar's head. From what I know, the Nike Oregon project athetes engaged in strength training but promoted unhealthy practices to get athletes lean. For example, athetes with normal thyroid hormone levels were prescribed synthetic thyroid hormone in effort to lose weight. While this might stimulate weight loss, having too much thyroid hormone leads to muscle weakness, anxiety, diarrhea and heat intolerance, all of which negatively impacts running performance. Anouther issue I saw was implementing an overly aggressive caloric deficit. The issues that Mary Cain had as a runner at the Nike Oregon Project were heavily tied to underfueling. Mary Cain was so hungery she stole Ritz's Cliff bars and ate them in secret, away from Salazar. If you are so hungry you need to be taking other peoples' food and eating it in secret, you are most definitely underfueling. It seems that the Nike Oregon Project was not only missing a psychologist but also an exercise physiologist. In this article, It was not only Mary Cain by which he pushed unhealthy weight loss but multiple other runners as well.
My intriguing question is why don't more coaches promote body recomposition to improve performance? My thought is having runners eat in maintenance or in a very small deficit while stimaltanously running and cross training alongside strength training. I understand it might take much longer to achieve an optimal result, but it will be much more beneficial to both health and performance in the long term. A more desirable body composition would be achieved as a result of resistance training and being able to take in sufficient calories. This in turn would improve the runners' strength to weight ratio, thereby resulting in faster times. In addition, because you are giving your body sufficient calories and nutrients to support both health and performance, healthy immune, endocrine and metabolic function can be maintained at a lower body fat percentage than if you were to undergo an aggressive caloric deficit.
I highly doubt Grant Fisher is 134 pounds at 5'10" It is my opinion he is a bit shorter. It is my opinion he is heavier than 134 pounds. I am an elite level State Fair caliber weight guesser. I have G. Fisher at 5'9 3/4" 151 lbs.
I really want this to be true. The state fair caliber weight guesser part.
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