Hello everybody,
So over the summer I pretty much became a vegetable, due to being sick for a good month. I lost alot of muscle mass (about 10-15 pounds), and gained around 10 pounds of fat while I was recovering from my illness.
Now that I am fully recovered, I would like to try to get back into shape too how I was before. I was a competitive rower last year, and went to the Canadian National championships. During my training I was at a very high level of fitness (my V02 Max was 59.48 at that time). I have since then stopped rowing for good, and am beginning to train for general fitness and strength training.
One component of my training is running. I have began running 6km ideally every other day to get back to a decent level of fitness. Once I am back into relatively good shape with good endurance, I'll start crossfit to build up muscle max, anaerobic/aerobic threshold, etc..
I plan to run for at least another month before I start crossfit. My questions is, while I'm running, would it be beneficial do do some intervals (such as 1 minute at 40% effort, 1 minute at 100%) for training, or would just running at a steady pace be fine?
Cheers
-Apex