Kieran Read

I'd lose weight because I wasn't doing the gym and having all this extra stuff.

So I'd always come back to pre-season, a few kgs down, having to put on weight but also do all the running and things like that.

So it was always quite tough to kind of get the body up to weight and most definitely even when I was younger.

I came to Canterbury and into the academy down here as a skinny fella and

I got put on a 10 by 10 program you know like it was 10 reps 10 sets yeah oh man it was deadly and I was just smashing protein and just like had you know all that stuff the creatine things and yeah yeah so when I did I put on a bit of weight man I'd certainly uh struggled around the field those initial kind of little bits to kind of figure out what it what it was but

Um, yeah, I think now I'm in a pretty good space.

I just think you don't want to go the opposite way when you're finished.

So, um, yeah, happy to be in a good place.

A lot of people have either had to work really hard to keep the weight on or work hard to keep it off.

So you kind of drop into that natural thing.

But I think if I look around a lot of ex-players now and like yourself, right?

Like you're in great nick.

It's like you've been trained in that for such a long time.

It's become part of who you are, your mindset.

And it's like, well-

That's what you do.

So, you know, you just keep doing it, don't you?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's right.

So, yeah.