Fitness guru's I need you! Four weeks to get into shape!

Here is my situation.

I play Aussie Rules every year. Normally I'm carrying a few extra kilos and make it through. This year I have really let myself go due to a number of personal factors that have taken priority over attending preseason and what-not.

Round one is April 9. So that gives me about 4.5wks to get cram and get into some sort of fitness.

Quick profile about me;
181cm or 5ft11.5in
Ideal playing weight – 90-95kg
Playing weight last 2 years – 105-110kg
Current weight – 116kg

Just by training at a moderate level 2-3 times a week with football training I usually find I lose weight without much effort as long as my diet isn't completely crap. What I want to do it drop as much as possible over these next four weeks and then ease off a bit once the season starts and continue to drop weight steadily throughout the season.

Cardio has always been my weak point, even when I was 90kg and fit as a fiddle I would struggle bigtime with anything over 3-4km.

Anyone suggest some sort of regime that won't burn me out too much and will be efficient and effective? I can't afford a gym membership and semi-recent shoulder dislocation prohibits me from doing the majority of weights.

The only thing I have locked in at the moment is Footy training 2 nights a week and 1 practice match on the saturday. I was thinking about going to a GP and asking for some type of medication to help the process along...

Another thing that may be of note is that unsuprisingly, I love my food. Whether I eat healthy or not I eat big servings. I find that I will eat a big home cooked dinner and then be hungry within a few hours and thats what kills my diet because I snack on all the bad stuff.
Any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
 
I do not think you will have a issue losing weight if you are playing football 2-3 times a week. Supplement that with a good diet and you will be fine. If you find that is not enough, then you will want to begin some resistance training work.

Do you do any type of resistance training work, I think that will be very beneficial to your weight, and your overall fitness levels and sport performance.
 
I do not think you will have a issue losing weight if you are playing football 2-3 times a week. Supplement that with a good diet and you will be fine. If you find that is not enough, then you will want to begin some resistance training work.

Do you do any type of resistance training work, I think that will be very beneficial to your weight, and your overall fitness levels and sport performance.

By resistance training do you mean weights and the like?

I have a stuffed shoulder that means I cannot do any sustained weights or things like pushups. I definately am not aiming to gain any muscle mass because I have found its detrimental to my sport. Aussie Rules football requires you to be well-rounded rather then just bulk or just speed. An average football training session will consist of 20min - warm up running, slow jogging, progressively faster 30m sprints, etc. Then about 45-1hr of full ground drills using the balls, with about a half hour of boxing thrown in between. Finishing with some lower intensity drills and core work like crunches, pushups, squats, etc.

I think my main issue is my diet. It really is quite horrid. Is there a resource around that gives me decent easy recipes to achieve weight loss? I would happily eat grilled/steamed chicken breast a few nights a week and some steamed vege's but Im not the most confident cook so a how-to guide would be great.
 
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