Well it's official...tendonitits in my elbow (tennis) pretty much cant do any pull excercises and heavy weights with other excercises stress it too.

Rest is the only way this will get better and to be totally honest, being new to this, I am pretty terrified that if I dont alternate my routine to something I can do and fall out of the habit I have formed this last year, I will quickly find myself back up to 250lbs. It's been a tough road to 205 and I can't let that happen.

I am considering altering my workout to 80% cardio, 20% strength training which is a flip-flop of the ratio now. I'd like to use this 4-6 week period to tackle the subdermal fat that hides my gains (particularly abs) and to work on definition elsewhere.

My plan is to lift low weight w\ high rep (on what I can do without aggravating this injury) in the 20% and spend a majority of my time 80% doing some tread, elliptical, & bike.

I am a little worried that I will end up losing some of my mass gains and since I have been so focused on building muscle I also dont really know the best ways to do cardio for the specific purpose of fat burning. (i.e. Heart Rate Targets, Varying Intensity, etc) I usually just do 25 minutes on the tread to warm up before lifting and then finish with another 15 minutes (4MPH, 15 Incline, typical total burn is 700-800 calories by the machines count). I should mention baseball ruined my knees so any kind of heavy impact (running) is rough to say the least.

Anyone have any recommendations or even a set routine they'd recommend that will help with this?