‘I’m a vest guy now!’ Jason Manford collapses on the grass showing off his new fit look following beach run… having admitted to ‘self-loathing’ in the past
Jason Manford has caught the fitness bug during the COVID-19 pandemic.
And on Tuesday, the 39-year-old comedian snapped a selfie of himself collapsed on the grass after taking on a beach run.
Jason looked athletic in the snap as he lay on the lawn in a sports vest, showing off his arms.
Knackered! Jason Manford has caught the fitness bug during the COVID-19 pandemic – and on Tuesday, the 39-year-old comedian snapped a selfie of himself collapsed on the grass after taking on a beach run
Flashing his white teeth, Jason looked exhausted, captioning the Twitter snap: ‘I’m a vest-guy now!’
Flashing his white teeth, Jason looked exhausted, captioning the Twitter snap: ‘I’m a vest-guy now!’
He added: ‘5 minute outdoor run on Selsey Beach this morning. Thought the sand might make it easier. It didn’t.’
Jason has recently signed up for the next Soccer Aid for Unicef – alongside other celebrities, including Olly Murs, Kem Cetinay and Joe Wicks.
And the father-of-six has been looking to the latter to get fit at home.
He posted a snap of himself, shirtless in the garden, undertaking a Body Coach workout.
‘In garden on hols doing a HIIT session. Doing Joe’s classes to get fit will make it all the sweeter when I go past him on the wing & bang it into the top corner during [Soccer Aid] [sic],’ he posted.
![Now: He has been working out during lockdown in 2020 [pictured last week]](https://i1.wp.com/i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/08/18/12/32086768-8639095-Now_He_has_been_working_out_during_lockdown_in_2020_pictured_las-a-33_1597749938130.jpg?resize=306%2C506&ssl=1)
Then and now: Jason admitted in 2018 that he felt ‘self-loathing’ about his body when he posted a shirtless snap on Instagram [pictured L]; but he has been working out during lockdown in 2020 [pictured R, last week]
Earlier this year: Jason is pictured in January, pre-lockdown
Jason admitted two years ago that he has body confidence issues, telling Lorraine Kelly about his battle with ‘self-loathing’.
Afraid to post a snap of himself wearing sporty shorts at the time, he told Lorraine: ‘I kept pulling myself in. [I’m] sort of just getting into this [health] thing. I see the guy from Thor and I think, “Oh that’s what arms are supposed to look like”.
When he eventually posted the snap of himself wearing the shorts, Jason captioned the Instagram snap: ‘Here it is. I got sent these amazing James Bond shorts by the brilliant folks at @orlebarbrown and all they wanted for it was a picture on my social media.
‘Absolutely bargain I thought as someone who never ever does that sorta thing. But then I realised that I had forgotten I was fat and not the most photogenic especially in a pair of swimmers!
Fitness kick: The father-of-six has been getting fit at home
Back of the net! Jason has recently signed up for the next Soccer Aid for Unicef – alongside Joe Wicks
‘The good folks at @orlebarbrown waited many weeks before politely enquiring “would you be able to do a post” but my own self-loathing and embarrassment about my body stopped me and made me break my promise with them.
‘Then today, I just thought sod it! Yeah I’m overweight, I try and train at the gym, I know what to eat and what not to eat, I fluctuate, I’m trying, I’m struggling, I have unhappy days about my body and I have days when I forget but I never have good days.
‘I’m not a good advert for clothes but I’m a good comedian and I’m a good dad and I’m trying my best to be good at everything else too. I need to remember my own advice, ‘Just because You’re struggling, it doesn’t mean you’re failing.
‘Anyway, not many people would turn a pair of free swim shorts, no matter how nice they were, into a soul searching session but sod it, that’s me. With my moobs and my stretch marked skin and my cavernous belly button! At least I’m nice [sic].’