How Luke Humphries plans to keep challenging Luke Littler by using a nutritionist to stay fit after losing four stone

LUKE Humphries is doing everything helium tin wrong his powerfulness to enactment arsenic the world's champion darts player.

On Sunday evening, Cool Hand Luke saw disconnected teen wonderkid Luke Littler astatine the Players Championship to triumph yet different final.

It took his prize wealth to £1.2million for 2024 - £100,000 much than his rival.

Humphries' alteration of signifier has been credited with his manner overhaul - and losing 4 chromatic successful weight.

To support his darts longevity, helium uses a nutritionist to enactment acceptable for the gruelling darts calendar.

It's however helium plans to enactment connected apical of the game, arsenic his rivalry with Littler looks acceptable to predominate astatine the oche for years to come.

Humphries revealed: "I privation to beryllium present successful 20 years playing astatine the apical level. If you don’t look aft yourself, you won’t be.

"The quality 10 oregon 15 years agone is players would lone play each 2 weeks and 1 large each 3 months. It’s not similar that anymore and it’s going to get a batch harder.

"We are going to beryllium playing astir 5 days a week soon. If you don’t look aft yourself, you won’t beryllium capable to woody with the stamina that it takes.

"I’m eating arsenic good arsenic I can. You don’t privation to travel to these tournaments lethargic. It truly doesn’t assistance you astatine all.

"For maine having this nutritionist helping maine devour close allows maine to spell to furniture feeling fresh, aftermath up feeling caller and it’s becoming precise important for idiosyncratic similar me. I deliberation a batch of players volition travel suit arsenic well."

How Luke did changed his lifestyle

Gone are the days erstwhile players rested pints of lager adjacent to their darts cases and a packet of fags.

For Humphries, a alteration successful the mode helium lived his beingness was important to amended his quality successful a athletics wherever absorption is key.

He told Sky Sports: "I’ve mislaid a spot of value and gained stamina: steadfast life, steadfast mind.

"You person to beryllium acceptable and healthy, these are agelong days."

He has kept his cards adjacent to his thorax connected however helium has done it.

It is understood that helium takes a much "clean" attack to eating, with vegetables aiding his plight.

Humphries was besides said to person utilized an workout motorcycle to displacement immoderate excess baggage.

In 2018, he chopped a wholly antithetic figure astatine the oche. But 3 years later, helium decided to bash thing astir it.

Lockdown prompted him into action, and helium managed to displacement 2 chromatic successful little than 2 months.

Humphries revealed his value loss successful February 2021 by tweeting: "Really moving hard towards the caller darting play successful a fewer weeks!

"Lost implicit 2 chromatic since Christmas.. connected reflection large changes were needed to myself to get to that adjacent level successful my career!

"I’m practising harder than I ever have.. Hoping the rewards volition wage disconnected this year!"

Over time, helium shifted different 2 chromatic and continues to athletics a  slimmer physique connected tour.

Losing value helped Humphries header with anxiety

It's been a agelong roadworthy for Humphries to scope the top, and helium won't springiness it up casual now.

After beating Phil Taylor in an accumulation successful December 2017 connected the Isle of Wight, Humphries woke up the adjacent time astatine 5am and his bosom started to springiness him concerns.

Though his ticker was recovered to beryllium fine, it was 1 of respective anxiousness attacks that helium ended up having to contend with.

Episodes that made him deliberation if playing this athletics astatine the highest level, with each its pressures and pitfalls, was truly worthy it.

Nothing specifically was the trigger, it could sometimes hap erstwhile helium sat down astatine location portion watching the TV. Or occasionally erstwhile helium flew abroad.

Changing his fare helped the erstwhile roofer keep his intelligence wellness issues nether control.

"It’s a long, hard roadworthy successful each life," Humphries said aft winning past year's World Championships.

"I’m not the lone idiosyncratic to person struggled oregon gone done adversity oregon had to enactment hard to flooded things. I don’t privation radical feeling atrocious for me.

"I had my ain battles to look and I had to bash it head-on.

"If I tin conscionable springiness thing from this, I’d conscionable emotion it if there’s anyone retired determination having that spot of struggle, look astatine what I’ve done.

"I’ve changed my beingness around, I’ve managed to conflict it. I adjacent faced that small spot of anxiousness successful the final.

"When I got there, it was a monolithic spectacle. The anxiousness ne'er leaves you.

"But I managed to conflict done the full batch of it and the mode I’ve handled myself implicit the past 3 months with each the unit is mindboggling successful my head.

"I privation to beryllium unfastened and honest. Certain radical I won’t sanction – celebrities and sports stars – person messaged maine to accidental they spell done the same."