Former AFL champ and radio star Brendan Fevola has teased fans about a massive career change.
The 43-year-old Carlton Football club legend, who currently co-hosts the Fox’s Fifi, Fev and Nick Show, says he’s itching to get back into footy as a coach.
Fevola’s shock announcement has come after he spent a day training with Collingwood’s AFLW team.
‘It makes me wanna be a coach,’ an emotional Fevola told his co-hosts Fifi Box and Nick Cody on Friday.
‘You wouldn’t understand how much I loved it.
‘I was up and about all day yesterday. I haven’t trained for any of the teams I’ve played for in the last 14 years, not once.’
Fevola, who rose to fame as a top goal kicker for the Carlton Football Club’s AFL premier side in the early 2000s said he was originally asked along to the training session by Collingwood CEO Craig Kelly.
The former footy star explained that the invite was supposedly a ‘joke punishment’ after Fevola had gone public with his prediction that Kelly would be soon resigning from Collingwood.
Former AFL champ and radio star Brendan Fevola (pictured) has teased fans about a massive career change
‘I know Craig Kelly did it as a punishment, but I absolutely loved it,’ gushed Fevola during the segment.
Fevola has been broadcasting on Fox FM with Fifi Box since 2016.
It comes after Fevola recently revealed he lost a whopping 14.5kg in just a month without doing any exercise.
Speaking to Australian Men’s Health last month, the radio host explained that after he called time on his playing career, his health started to take a backseat.
‘I haven’t been to the gym in 13 years,’ Brendan told the publication.
The 43-year-old Carlton Football club legend, who currently co-hosts the Fox’s Fifi, Fev and Nick, says he’s itching to get back into footy as a coach
‘After I retired, I just didn’t see the point because I had no reason to keep fit.’
Brendan added that when he stopped training, the calories he was consuming continued to ‘stack up’.
‘Eating as much as I used to was fine when I was playing footy, because I burnt a lot of it off with exercise. But after I started not exercising as much, it all stacked up.’
After realising he needed to make a lifestyle change, Brendan lost a formidable 30 kilograms in the past 12 months, including an impressive 14.5 kilograms in the last month by following the keto diet.
Brendan said that the early hours he works in breakfast radio had caused him to eat more carb heavy foods.
‘The breakfast hours I work mean I’m tired at the wrong times, and before I was just eating constant carbs and not getting the good stuff to keep me awake,’ he said.
‘I don’t want to put all the blame on breakfast hours though, because you can still eat well at those times, but it’s all about the decisions you make.’
He overhauled his diet with a 30-day challenge from Keto Australia.
The keto diet is a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet that aims to get the body into a state of ketosis where it burns fat for fuel, which helps induce weight loss.
Fevola has been broadcasting on Fox FM with Fifi Box since 2016. (Both pictured)
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