Should Eli Manning Lose Weight To Be A Better Player?

Numerous sport coaches push players to diet for the idea they will play better and run faster. This is promoting an ideology idea the thinner is better performance. Pushing this mindset in sports can lead to everyday males, such as my boyfriend, to lose weight so he can have better performance. By this argument that thinner equals a better player, how thin is enough? Should Eli Manning lose weight to be a better player? Should we keep pushing male athletes to be as thin as they can be to gain better speed, or should coaches push them to train harder as they do heavier player’s thin counterparts. If a player is thin and they do not perform well, they are told to train more; however, if a bigger player does not do well they are told it is because