Mar 19, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min · 17 segments
This week on Rugby Rodeo, Jess and Ellie are joined by a VERY special guest… Olympic skeleton gold medallist Tabby Stoecker in the Spotify studio! From flying head-first down an ice track at…
Tabby StoeckerGuest
Ellie KildunneHost
Jess BreachHost
We get asked a lot in rugby, do you have to be really strict on your diet? And for us, we don't.
I can't really speak on the other girls, but obviously there's loads of different ways of playing, but it seems like it's so minute, the differences that it can make.
and staying at a certain weight? By and large, I'd say I'm similar to you guys.
Like the type of training you do and I do, I imagine is fairly similar with the like short explosive sprints and power and strength.
For me, i don't know i guess like being a really fast sprinter you want to have that balance right too you don't want to be carrying too much extra weight because you just get injured so i think um for the sport we we try and be healthy and obviously like clean with everything yeah but you don't have to be straight i'll eat a whole pack of it's balance right it makes me feel better yeah yeah and for me like the struggle for me has always been putting on weight um which like obviously it all comes with like different kind of stigma stigmas attached to it but for me it's always been about trying to like put on the muscle put on the good weight um to try and be more competitive yeah i get that
We have a lot of that in rugby, like the stigma, like eating loads of carbs, like pasta, like all that stuff.
Like I think it's quite a negative spiral you can get in, especially as a female.
But actually the sport, I guess, that we're both in, you need to be strong and have like muscle density around you, which then is
And one of the things I do love about skeleton is it's one of those sports where all the athletes look different.
And I just think that's such a fantastic thing to display, especially within women's sport.
You're just going to look how you look, but you're strong and you're fast and you're powerful and you're going to excel.
We get asked a lot in rugby, do you have to be really strict on your diet? And for us, we don't.
I can't really speak on the other girls, but obviously there's loads of different ways of playing, but it seems like it's so minute, the differences that it can make.
and staying at a certain weight? By and large, I'd say I'm similar to you guys.
Like the type of training you do and I do, I imagine is fairly similar with the like short explosive sprints and power and strength.
For me, i don't know i guess like being a really fast sprinter you want to have that balance right too you don't want to be carrying too much extra weight because you just get injured so i think um for the sport we we try and be healthy and obviously like clean with everything yeah but you don't have to be straight i'll eat a whole pack of it's balance right it makes me feel better yeah yeah and for me like the struggle for me has always been putting on weight um which like obviously it all comes with like different kind of stigma stigmas attached to it but for me it's always been about trying to like put on the muscle put on the good weight um to try and be more competitive yeah i get that
We have a lot of that in rugby, like the stigma, like eating loads of carbs, like pasta, like all that stuff.
Like I think it's quite a negative spiral you can get in, especially as a female.
But actually the sport, I guess, that we're both in, you need to be strong and have like muscle density around you, which then is
And one of the things I do love about skeleton is it's one of those sports where all the athletes look different.
And I just think that's such a fantastic thing to display, especially within women's sport.
You're just going to look how you look, but you're strong and you're fast and you're powerful and you're going to excel.
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