Overweight GAA player

Portnew

Hi, just Looking for some information and advice. I'm in my early 30s and haven't played any kind of sport over the last 3 years. I would say I'm about 3 stone overweight and my fitness level is very low. I used to play hurling at senior club level but would be a million miles off that now. I have just started back training (junior level) but I seem to be miles behind the younger lads. I know it will takes months to drop the weight and bring fitness levels back up to what they used to be. I'm taking this serious as haven't eaten any bread, potatoes, junk food, high calories food over last 4 weeks. I train 3 times a week at the moment with the team and go for 5k job twice a week on me own. What would
be my best plan over the next 2-3 months?

randd1

Portnew wrote: »

Hi, just Looking for some information and advice. I'm in my early 30s and haven't played any kind of sport over the last 3 years. I would say I'm about 3 stone overweight and my fitness level is very low. I used to play hurling at senior club level but would be a million miles off that now. I have just started back training (junior level) but I seem to be miles behind the younger lads. I know it will takes months to drop the weight and bring fitness levels back up to what they used to be. I'm taking this serious as haven't eaten any bread, potatoes, junk food, high calories food over last 4 weeks. I train 3 times a week at the moment with the team and go for 5k job twice a week on me own. What would
be my best plan over the next 2-3 months?

Best advice would be to keep it going for another month to build up the fitness. After that maybe graduate the 5k runs to 10k with a few breaks to get your breath back, or maybe have one of them as a 10k.

Keep it up is the main thing.

Browney7

Are you doing any weights training? Weights or core/ab exercises a few times a week will do you a world of good

Portnew

I'm not a fan of weights but we do about 1 hour of core work with team Training each week. Might do another hour on why own.

rebel girl 15

Portnew, have a look at HIIT training - has been used with GAA players in a lot of studies and gives the same, if not better results in endurance tests. You will spend much less time at it and easier to fit into training schedule. Team training, plus 1 core session plus HIIT training during the week - make sure you get adequate rest as well

Connorzee

rebel girl 15 wrote: »

Portnew, have a look at HIIT training - has been used with GAA players in a lot of studies and gives the same, if not better results in endurance tests. You will spend much less time at it and easier to fit into training schedule. Team training, plus 1 core session plus HIIT training during the week - make sure you get adequate rest as well

the last T in HIIT stands for training... FYI

The man in red and black

Maybe someone else could shed some light on this as I'm not a physio or anything but would 5k running twice a week not be very tough on your knees if you are trying to shed 3 stone. Would swimming or cycling be better cardio and less concussive impact on your joints until you get the weight down?

rebel girl 15

Connorzee wrote: »

the last T in HIIT stands for training... FYI

Same as ATM machine :pac: