WALLACE’S WEIGHT BET
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SIX weeks ago, Jarrod Wallace had a serious numbers problem.
Specifically, he weighed 118kg. Which wasn’t only too heavy, but it was double digits too heavy.
“And that number,” the Gold Coast forward recalls, “it just wouldn’t come down.
“Normally, I’ve got no problem coming back from summer and shedding kilos. But I’d done extras right through Christmas and, for some reason, the figure wasn’t dropping.”
Enter the Gold Coast club’s medical co-ordinator Craig Catterick.
On Australia Day, when at a team barbecue and with beer in hand, the man responsible for Titans extra sessions suggested Wallace should give up $1000 if he could not lose 10 kilos, at which he would make his ideal playing weight, by, say, March 12.
And just to make things interesting, Catterick continued, he would drop just as much, too.
“Which didn’t turn out to be easy for anyone,” Wallace laughs. “By the finish ‘Cat’ was living on chicken broth.” Still, it worked.
The Queensland Origin forward, who returns in Round 3 from a 2017 suspension, finally hit the scales yesterday at 107.7kg, which had him home by 300 grams. And game ready.
The 26-year-old’s dramatic weight loss was thanks to countless extra sessions each week.
Apart from sweating alongside Catterick it also included boxing with trainer Steve Driscoll, field work with Titans head of performance Hayden Knowles and gym work with strength coach Scott Campbell.