Former AFL champion and radio star Brendan Fevola has teased fans with a huge career change.
The 43-year-old Carlton Football club legend, who currently co-hosts the Fox’s Fifi, Fev and Nick Show, says he is eager to get back to work as a coach.
Fevola’s shock announcement came after he spent a day training with Collingwood’s AFLW team.
“It makes me want to 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.
‘Yesterday I was busy all day. I haven’t trained for any of the teams I’ve played for in the last fourteen years, not once.”
Fevola, who rose to fame as the top goalkeeper for Carlton Football Club’s AFL side in the early 2000s, said he was originally asked to join the training session by Collingwood chief executive Craig Kelly.
The former footy star explained that the invite was likely a ‘joke penalty’ after Fevola made public his prediction that Kelly would soon resign from Collingwood.
Former AFL champion and radio star Brendan Fevola (pictured) has teased fans with a huge career change
“I know Craig Kelly did it as punishment, but I absolutely loved it,” Fevola said 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 taking time away from 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 Fox’s Fifi, Fev and Nick, says he is eager to get back into coaching.
‘After I retired I didn’t see the point in it as I had no reason to keep fit.’
Brendan added that when he stopped exercising, the calories he consumed continued to ‘pile up’.
‘When I was playing football it was fine to eat as much as I used to because I burned a lot of it through exercise. But after I started exercising less, it all piled up.”
After realizing he needed to make a lifestyle change, Brendan lost a whopping 30kg in the last 12 months, including an impressive 14.5kg in the last month by following the keto diet.
Brendan said the early hours working in breakfast radio had led to him eating more carbohydrate-rich foods.
“The breakfast hours I work leave me tired at the wrong times, and before I was just eating consistent 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 about the decisions you make.’
He overhauled his diet with a 30-day challenge from Keto Australia.
The keto diet is a low-carb, high-fat diet that aims to put the body into a state of ketosis, where it burns fat for fuel, which helps cause weight loss.
Fevola has been broadcasting on Fox FM with Fifi Box since 2016. (Both photos)
