'I didn't want my stomach to be over the belt anymore.' And Shaquille O'Neal lost weight because he wanted to 'avoid a Charles Barkley retirement body', writes analisbailey
Basketball legend, Steph Curry, has finally graduated from Davidson College, completing his degree 13 years after he quit school to join the NBA.Shaquille O'Neal opened up about his weight loss during a podcast, joking that he wants to become a sex symbol and one day be in an underwear ad.
"I've been working out and I posted a pic a couple of weeks ago and it went viral. And I was like man! So I've been really really working out," the Hall of Fame NBA player and business mogul said onThe four-time NBA champ said that the motivation to become fit was his desire to no longer look like his NBA on TNT co-host Charles Barkley.
"I like to create crazy motivation," O'Neal said."Because I was looking at myself and I had that Charles Barkley retirement body. I didn't want my stomach to be over the belt anymore. So I was like, 'let me go ahead and get slim.'"after a workout in September has gained over one million likes and nearly 13,000 comments.
"I was 401 pounds. Now I am 365," O'Neal continued. "I am trying to take it back to 345. I want to have muscles everywhere and I want to do an underwear ad with my sons.", O'Neal revealed that he revamped his diet and training routine since retirement from the NBA to help him lose weight and say healthy, joking that he had"Charles Barkley Over The Belt Syndrome.
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