Arriving for his second training camp as a member of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, running back A.J. Ouellette is nearly unrecognizable.
For starters, he shed 25 pounds during the off-season following some trash talk with co-workers at his home gym in Ohio.
“I have a sports performance gym back home,” Ouellette said. “I was sitting in the sauna and people were talking about not being able to stick to a diet or something like that. We were like, ‘Everybody throw $100 in, let’s see who has the best transformation in two months.’
“We had like nine people in and every person in the competition looks amazing after the transformation.”
Ouellette may have finished second place in that competition, but he’s optimistic his off-season regimen will lead to a top place finish with the Roughriders in 2025.
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