Andy Murray reveals staggering weight loss since retirement

Former Wimbledon champion and Team GB gold medalist Andy Murray has lost almost a stone since calling time on his illustrious tennis career following last month's Paris Olympics

Andy Murray reveals staggering weight loss since retirement - despite not going to the gym

Andy Murray has lost 11 pounds since hanging up his racket for good at the Paris Olympics last month.

But the former Wimbledon champion admits he hasn't stepped foot in a gym since the first few days of his retirement, despite promising his wife, Kim, that he would do so.

Murray cut a lean figure on the course at Wentworth on Wednesday in the Celebrity Pro-Am, which takes place before the BMW Championship. And he revealed his new physique certainly wasn't forged in a gym, even if he did plan to throw himself into a new routine.

He said: “I haven't been to the gym for five weeks. I said to my wife, I was like, Look, I'm going to make sure when I stop, I'm going to make sure I stay in good shape.

“And she said: ‘Oh, if you're just going to go and play golf, I don't want that’. I was : ‘No, no, I'll get myself in the gym, make sure I stay in shape’.

“I went to the gym three of the first four days after I stopped, worked really hard, and then went up to Scotland for a couple of days for a holiday, and haven't been back since. It's been five weeks I've not been in the gym, longest ever for me probably. I don't know if it's like appetite, if I'm not eating as much, but we obviously have like loads of the sport drinks have got lot of calories in them, and I only really drink water and coffee now.

“So I don't know, I think just less calories and probably loss of muscle. I've lost about 11, 12 pounds. It's a lot. I was expecting the opposite to happen. It's about five kilos, yeah.”

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The Scot wasn't holding out high hopes for his round, which he played alongside Ryder Cup star Bob MacIntyre, cricket icon Jimmy Anderson and Anton Du Beke: the former Strictly Come Dancing dancer who partnered Murray's mother, Judy, on the show.

While Murray was quick to dismiss suggestions he would follow in his mother's footsteps on the hit BBC show, he did suggest he could soon put more hours in on the range.

“I haven't played loads weekends but during the week, probably a few hours, 2 1/2, three hours probably, Murray responded when he was asked how much work he'd done on his game since quitting tennis.

“I think my expectations currently are pretty low. I'm not expecting to play very well. But yeah, I can see how if you're playing a lot and practising a lot and getting better and better, that changes.

“But no, I haven't been hard on myself yet.”

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