I have managed to gain just under 0.5kg in the last week or so. Got a bit lazy again, and even had some chocolate cake with my coffee last week.

I am making a renewed effort to go along to kung-fu twice a week, tricky some nights as my son is often late to bed on the days he goes to nursery, and those are the days I go kung-fu in the evening.

I am on holiday for a couple of weeks, so in between playing dad and doing DIY, and am making an attempt to increase my fitness activities. Today I jogged over to my local park (which is just a stones throw away) and did some simple football pitch interval training. The training was a simple circuit of the pitch. I warmed up with one large lap, going around the edge of the park, and then sprinted the length of the pitch, then jogged around it, back to the starting corner, then sprinted again.

I think that I did 5 sprints in total. No idea how long I exercised for, or how many sprints I did (could have been 4). I really need to buy a heart rate monitor / pulse reader and timer, so I get an idea of how much I have done.

It felt good to sprint, the second and third sprints were the fastest, and it made a pleasant change to the plodding around the village I was doing last year. Hopefully I can keep this up. The session is quicker than a plod/jog, and it may even help to improve my fitness quicker, if the interval training research is correct.

You can learn more about football fitness training here.