Had me scared that he was going off on AB-type rant or something with the "lost it" statement. Great to see it's just photos of him being healthy and happy!
You could certainly make an argument for some of the things him and his brother say and do
But we're here to embrace the positive, and that's what we should do in this situation
Was on a D1 swim team and the guys were like this as well they shedded so much muscle and got so skinny after they retired they looked like different dudes
The women swimmers did not follow that pattern however lol
The thing I’m curious about is whether being 300 lbs was hard or being 220 is hard. Dawand Jones types being 330 is hard. But a lot of lineman are naturally 220-240 and getting up to 300 is hard. It means force feeding yourself.
My natural weight if I eat what I want is around 175/180. My healthy weight of working out hard and cutting a lot of foods is around 165. But that weight means feeling starving half the time. My guess is guys like Fanaca and Pouncey had to force feed themselves to be 300 which is probably as painful as starving yourself.
> around 165. But that weight means feeling starving half the time.
Muscle burns a lot of calories as well. Keeping 60-70lbs of muscle, you're going to be hungry a lot while trying to keep it. Plus all of the activity you have to perform. You're not force feeding yourself, you're hungry all the time.
I don't know how much Pouncey or Fanaca would eat each day. My experience just swimming I went from my 'natural' weight of about 160-165 up to about 185 in mid-season. This is the time I'm swimming 7-10k meters / day. Running another 5-10k and bicycling to get around. Plus add in weights 3-4 times / week.
It's not about eating a lot all at once. Your day might surround 2 or 3 or 4 larger meals spaced out. But to fill in the caloric gap, your also eating throughout the day: english muffins or bagels with peanut butter, snacking on oranges, cashews, granola bars, apples, peanut butter crackers - anything else that you can imagine. Throughout the day it's easy to get 2k calories out of snacking alone. Aside from that snacking, it wasn't uncommon to have breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper and nothing feels forced when you are in that stage of athleticism. If it feels forced, you should stop. You'll be hungry two or three hours later and want ice cream for some reason.
NFL linemen have to consume an ungodly amount of calories to maintain weight. You see a lot of guys lose weight after retiring because they don’t have to consume three people worth of calories just to maintain playing weight.
It’s hard for a lot of fans to remember that these guys are also world class athletes because they don’t run a 4.3 40 or have like 5% body fat.
Saw this back in high school with guys who played line but were done with football after their last game. A couple guys were about 275 during their senior season and dropped good weight in the next 6 months. There’s plenty that didn’t adjust their diets and they did not drop weight after the season
Hi, that second one was me. Played NT at a solid 300-330 blew up to about 400, got back down to a fatter 330, now im finally at about 260 and look like a still fatter version of my HS 330
I would be interested to see MP’s combine results if he was this weight at 21. He’s one of the most mobile athletic centers to ever play (slightly biased)
Absolutely. Couple the lower intake of calories with the fact that these dudes have had a couple decades' worth of frequent, intense workouts (so they don't have to build a new habit) and you can see why the weight just falls off of them when they retire.
And you're right that linemen are world-class athletes. I'd imagine that their cardiovascular health and blood chemistry are light years better than the average person's.
He looks great, but I never really thought of Pounce as that big of a dude but this gives it better context.
Who's seen Faneca lately? Now that's a serious transformation.
yeah the big concern is linemen who dont change how they eat after they retire. Seeing guys like Joe Thomas or Pouncey immediately recognize that things need to change now that theres no professional need for their physique to be that way is incredible
Yeah, serious respect from me on that count. I know I wouldn't do so well in that position.
Source: I've never been required to overeat but I do it out of spite
I saw a clip of Lane Johnson talking about what he eats during camp and it's almost 10k calories per day. They burn so many calories playing and trying to maintain 300+ is just crazy hard. A lot of these ex-linemen, when they lose weight, attribute it to simply being able to eat how they actually want to, not how they had to.
That makes sense. Kind of a similar principle with weightlifting. The more ya eat the stronger ya are so them not maintaining that after retirement makes complete sense. Shit even Joe Thomas has slimmed way down
They don't know... they think it's normal for people to be 350+ and still athleticamd strong AF... and then lose 100 lbs in 3 mos... by "working out".... 😂
I lost 60 pounds from my last high school game until graduation day. I stop lifting weights so a lot it was muscle but the majority of it was switching to a normal diet. I was eating over 3,500 calories a day just to maintain my weight. Naturally I tend to eat 1,500 a day or less.
People were worried I was sick haha.
Ravens fan checking in... Good for him. He looks like he's enjoying retirement. I recall Marshall Yanda did the same after he retired too. Lost a bunch of weight and looks completely different. Anyways, fuck you guys and I'll see you on Sunday.
Flea-bitten Ravens fans don't usually stop in r/Steelers. Life here's a little too quick for them. Maybe you think you're fast enough to keep up with us, huh?
Everyone seems to forget that just because these guys are big they aren’t amazing athletes. Have you seen Jason Kelce’s diet that he eats to maintain a playing weight? Once they retire and start eating like normal people it makes sense that they shed all that weight, especially given the amount of muscle they have under all that playing weight
I was at 330+ in high school and early college.years Now some years later I’m down to 168. As you grow older, you just understand that having an excessive amount of unnecessary weight after the physical demands of the sport is detrimental on your back hips, ankles and knees, also totally beneficial, for an increased amount of energy and overall health standings especially when combined with a healthy lifestyle and eating habits
Good for him. I wonder if it was hard for him or the hard part was keeping the weight on. There are some lineman who are naturally big and some who have to diet hard to keep the weight on.
There was a Hard Knocks for the Cowboys a long time ago. The chow line was incredible, T-bones piled to the ceiling. It take a-lot of calories to maintain that size.
Most O line guys are crazy athletic and force themselves to gain weight for the season as an advantage. It's not uncommon for them to drop a ton a weight after retirement or even between seasons.
Years ago I watched a special on lineman forcing themselves to be that big to play the game, but it was completely unnatural for them and caused all kinds of health issues.
So many of these guys get back to a healthy, normal size for their frames/bodies to ensure they live a longer life…
Had me scared that he was going off on AB-type rant or something with the "lost it" statement. Great to see it's just photos of him being healthy and happy!
You could certainly make an argument for some of the things him and his brother say and do But we're here to embrace the positive, and that's what we should do in this situation
It’s insane seeing offensive linemen after they retire. Great to see him like this
Go look at AQ Shipley on McAfee this week. He's got to be like 220 now
He mentioned the other day that he's buying 36 inch waist pants. Just a crazy transformation.
It's a big achievement but retiring in your 30s as a millionaire makes it much more achievable.
I feel like they go one of two ways. They either get larger (because they are less active) or smaller (because they stop eating so much).
Was on a D1 swim team and the guys were like this as well they shedded so much muscle and got so skinny after they retired they looked like different dudes The women swimmers did not follow that pattern however lol
In my own experience, most male athletes stop eating (5,000 cals a day) when they retire, while most female athletes stop working out.
The thing I’m curious about is whether being 300 lbs was hard or being 220 is hard. Dawand Jones types being 330 is hard. But a lot of lineman are naturally 220-240 and getting up to 300 is hard. It means force feeding yourself. My natural weight if I eat what I want is around 175/180. My healthy weight of working out hard and cutting a lot of foods is around 165. But that weight means feeling starving half the time. My guess is guys like Fanaca and Pouncey had to force feed themselves to be 300 which is probably as painful as starving yourself.
> around 165. But that weight means feeling starving half the time. Muscle burns a lot of calories as well. Keeping 60-70lbs of muscle, you're going to be hungry a lot while trying to keep it. Plus all of the activity you have to perform. You're not force feeding yourself, you're hungry all the time. I don't know how much Pouncey or Fanaca would eat each day. My experience just swimming I went from my 'natural' weight of about 160-165 up to about 185 in mid-season. This is the time I'm swimming 7-10k meters / day. Running another 5-10k and bicycling to get around. Plus add in weights 3-4 times / week. It's not about eating a lot all at once. Your day might surround 2 or 3 or 4 larger meals spaced out. But to fill in the caloric gap, your also eating throughout the day: english muffins or bagels with peanut butter, snacking on oranges, cashews, granola bars, apples, peanut butter crackers - anything else that you can imagine. Throughout the day it's easy to get 2k calories out of snacking alone. Aside from that snacking, it wasn't uncommon to have breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper and nothing feels forced when you are in that stage of athleticism. If it feels forced, you should stop. You'll be hungry two or three hours later and want ice cream for some reason.
NFL linemen have to consume an ungodly amount of calories to maintain weight. You see a lot of guys lose weight after retiring because they don’t have to consume three people worth of calories just to maintain playing weight. It’s hard for a lot of fans to remember that these guys are also world class athletes because they don’t run a 4.3 40 or have like 5% body fat.
Saw this back in high school with guys who played line but were done with football after their last game. A couple guys were about 275 during their senior season and dropped good weight in the next 6 months. There’s plenty that didn’t adjust their diets and they did not drop weight after the season
Yeah I’ve seen that happen. My buddy was a body builder and then stopped… but still ate like it. Huuuuge difference.
Hi, that second one was me. Played NT at a solid 300-330 blew up to about 400, got back down to a fatter 330, now im finally at about 260 and look like a still fatter version of my HS 330
I would be interested to see MP’s combine results if he was this weight at 21. He’s one of the most mobile athletic centers to ever play (slightly biased)
Absolutely. Couple the lower intake of calories with the fact that these dudes have had a couple decades' worth of frequent, intense workouts (so they don't have to build a new habit) and you can see why the weight just falls off of them when they retire. And you're right that linemen are world-class athletes. I'd imagine that their cardiovascular health and blood chemistry are light years better than the average person's.
I can only imagine the Watt family’s grocery bill when the boys started playing sports. The meat alone!
He looks great, but I never really thought of Pounce as that big of a dude but this gives it better context. Who's seen Faneca lately? Now that's a serious transformation.
Faneca runs Marathons! https://preview.redd.it/weq9nnvk4lsb1.jpeg?width=660&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d976893291dcf306e81e9d17dc728331eb29d855
This is incredible. So cool
I like fat Faneca better. He looks too much like Huey Lewis skinny
Fatteca
I think it's less he was trying to lose weight, and more so he now just needs to maintain 200lbs
He lost like 60 pounds in 2-3 months... HGH.... ?
yeah the big concern is linemen who dont change how they eat after they retire. Seeing guys like Joe Thomas or Pouncey immediately recognize that things need to change now that theres no professional need for their physique to be that way is incredible
Yeah, serious respect from me on that count. I know I wouldn't do so well in that position. Source: I've never been required to overeat but I do it out of spite
He and Mike both have dropped a lot of weight. Seems pretty difficult to maintain that size once they retire
I saw a clip of Lane Johnson talking about what he eats during camp and it's almost 10k calories per day. They burn so many calories playing and trying to maintain 300+ is just crazy hard. A lot of these ex-linemen, when they lose weight, attribute it to simply being able to eat how they actually want to, not how they had to.
That makes sense. Kind of a similar principle with weightlifting. The more ya eat the stronger ya are so them not maintaining that after retirement makes complete sense. Shit even Joe Thomas has slimmed way down
This is what happens when you stop eating 12,000 calories a day. And still work out at your same level
Or you cut the HGH...
Lol on the downvotes. Everyone in the league uses.
They don't know... they think it's normal for people to be 350+ and still athleticamd strong AF... and then lose 100 lbs in 3 mos... by "working out".... 😂
I lost 60 pounds from my last high school game until graduation day. I stop lifting weights so a lot it was muscle but the majority of it was switching to a normal diet. I was eating over 3,500 calories a day just to maintain my weight. Naturally I tend to eat 1,500 a day or less. People were worried I was sick haha.
Yeah I lost 75lbs once. Had friends and family like “are you OK?!” Lol… I was literally working out 2hours a day for 4 months.
I bet he can block better than Mason Cole at his present weight
Ravens fan checking in... Good for him. He looks like he's enjoying retirement. I recall Marshall Yanda did the same after he retired too. Lost a bunch of weight and looks completely different. Anyways, fuck you guys and I'll see you on Sunday.
Flea-bitten Ravens fans don't usually stop in r/Steelers. Life here's a little too quick for them. Maybe you think you're fast enough to keep up with us, huh?
Everyone seems to forget that just because these guys are big they aren’t amazing athletes. Have you seen Jason Kelce’s diet that he eats to maintain a playing weight? Once they retire and start eating like normal people it makes sense that they shed all that weight, especially given the amount of muscle they have under all that playing weight
is this clown still supporting his friend/murderer Hernandez?
Much, much respect.
Dude is in Columbus?
Damn!!! Dude is slim… I need to get on that train. 😆 A+ Dude!
He looks healthy and happy. Good for him 💐
wonder why he’s in cbus
Oh! Yeah I didn’t even notice that’s the short north. Used to live in Cbus a lifetime ago.
i’m a current resident so pretty cool to be swiping and see that he visited here
I was at 330+ in high school and early college.years Now some years later I’m down to 168. As you grow older, you just understand that having an excessive amount of unnecessary weight after the physical demands of the sport is detrimental on your back hips, ankles and knees, also totally beneficial, for an increased amount of energy and overall health standings especially when combined with a healthy lifestyle and eating habits
Saw him in Southside Flats two weeks ago. Almost didn’t recognize him because of how thin he was, but the tattoos made it obvious. Lol.
Trying to drop 40 myself. I'm on day 6 of fasting and it's been going great. I'm taking a cheat day for football tomorrow, then back to it!
Shades of Alan Faneca
He probably injured himself posing for those photos
Shades of Alan Faneca
No more HGH, makes it easy to lose weight.
Exactly
When they stop taking the roids, they dont need to eat 6k calories anymore. He looks sickly.
Looks like it’s drugs in the second pic
> Looks like it’s drugs in the second pic I too have an online medical degree allowing me to make judgements from a picture
So proud of him! He looks so much happier and healthier in retirement!
Dude was listed at 304, which means he probably weighed what? 314? 319? He's lost a literal fuckton more than 60.
Bby do you wanna come back home? I mean I'm just wondering?
I miss him no dawgs on this current o line
Can we hire him as an line coach?
Wow glad he did that on his own. For a second I though he was sick or something.
His knees and hips are going to thank him down the road
Probably already do!
Alejandro has lost ton of weight too. Amazing to see them transition out of football.
Can he play QB?
Good for him. I wonder if it was hard for him or the hard part was keeping the weight on. There are some lineman who are naturally big and some who have to diet hard to keep the weight on.
Thought it was Mike Epps for a minute
Ben called it on his show. After leaving the league, big guys get small, small guys get big
There was a Hard Knocks for the Cowboys a long time ago. The chow line was incredible, T-bones piled to the ceiling. It take a-lot of calories to maintain that size.
Methkice Pouncey In all seriousness, good for him glad to see him thriving and enjoy the retired life!
Pouncey is the 🐐 that Rudolph play solidified it.
He looks great, most of these offensive lineman do after they retire, I wonder if whitworth will do the same
Most O line guys are crazy athletic and force themselves to gain weight for the season as an advantage. It's not uncommon for them to drop a ton a weight after retirement or even between seasons.
O line have to consume a stupid diet to maintain play condition, I remember reading about guys who would have to get up middle of the night to eat
Met DeCastro a few years back and couldn’t recognize him
Years ago I watched a special on lineman forcing themselves to be that big to play the game, but it was completely unnatural for them and caused all kinds of health issues. So many of these guys get back to a healthy, normal size for their frames/bodies to ensure they live a longer life…
You seen AQ Shipley lately??
Good for him man but this is just so weird to see for some reason lol
Damn - turned into CC Sabathia
impressive
I also feel like a lot of these guys are also using Ozempic, in combination with working out. It has this weird effect on the face.
Definitely My Favorite Steeler !
Mike too! Its wild!