I'm the right size and weight again now, bar a bit of flab all over which I'm trying to lose to get more definition, purely for vanity purposes
What's the best way to do it?
I am thinking of (over the summer) doing a lot more fitness work - maybe a month at lower rates to burn fat, then 2 months intensive to get as fit as possible for next footie season. My stamina, fitness and to a lesser extent speed have all improved a hell of a lot during this season, losing a couple of stone has helped that, but now I want to stay roughly the same size but change the last bits of fat into muscle (which seems to be the hardest bit to do??) and then concentrate on fitness as well as doing my regular weights set.
This sound about right?
Sounds good Col - if you're doing runs during your intensive period integrate hill work and interval training, the latter will help with football enourmously. Even if not running you can still do intervals on a rower or bike, it really helps with fitness and monotony.
For an example, this is one session I do on a treadmill: 0.5km walking warm-up at 6-6.5kmh pace, 1k at 12-12.5kmh, then 0.5km at 14-14.5kmh followed by 0.5km recovery at 12-12.5km, then repeat the intervals for your required distance (I usually do 6-8km)
If outside just substitue the distances for durations. Easy!
Hill training really helps too - find a decent incline and aim for a hard run up it, then jog back to your starting point for recovery and repeat the climb/recovery as many times as you feel up to (three to four sets should be plenty)
Hope that helps - got plenty of running info from running a marathon last year so yell if you want any more info
Found out today I got rejected from this year's NY Marathon, but am signing up for Chicago instead - training begins with a 10k on Sunday, then roll on Christmas and all the chocolate it brings, then it will be time to try and get fit again next Spring