Vacation with no gym available ...

[transcend2007]

So I am heading on vacation to a small town in PA where unfortunately the closest gym is over 45 minutes away.

My college age nephew gave me a body weight routine he does and I am wondering what you guys do when gym time is unavailable ...

Body weight routine:

AM
100 Pushups
100 Sit-ups
100 Bodyweight squats

PM
100 Pushups
100 Sit-ups
100 Bodyweight squats

I cannot do 100 of any at 1 time so I was thinking over breaking in 5 rounds ... perhaps with a short rest (1 minute) in between rounds.

Does this sound reasonable or do you have other non-gym recommendations ... ?

 

[TomJ]

lol your nephew got that workout from an anime called One Punch Man

 

[TomJ]

 

[transcend2007]

I've watched the whole season of One Punch man on Netflix ... I forgot how hilarious it was or that routine was in there ... thanks TJ ... !!!

 

[eazy]

how long will you be gone?

my initial thought was deload, relax, come back refreshed.

 

[transcend2007]

how long will you be gone?

my initial thought was deload, relax, come back refreshed.

I had not even considered that option ... but now it does sound reasonable ...

10 days is the time away ... maybe I'll take the first 3 days off ...

 

[TomJ]

how long will you be gone?

my initial thought was deload, relax, come back refreshed.

this is what i would do, use it as recovery time

 

[CJ]

Take the week off.

 

[buck]

10 days....just have fun and if some of that fun is an activity so much the better. There will be no protein loss form the muscle in 10 days unless you stop eating protein.

 

[Reader591]

Like others have said, I normally take times like these to take it easy. I might do some body weight stuff if it’s a little longer like you have, 10 days, but not from fear of losing muscle. It’s just cause after a few days of not moving everything as much, I just feel better getting some blood flow going.

In my camper I keep some bands. Light bands all the way to heavy ones. A few DBs and an area I can do pull ups in it for traveling. If we are in a nice weather area I might even go outside and do it, like at the beach, as long as I don’t feel like a weirdo doing it. Otherwise I’ll do it inside. Normally some type of Full body routine.

Just get a small pump, little bit of elevated heart rate and call it a day. Takes 20 mins.

 

[white ape]

So I am heading on vacation to a small town in PA where unfortunately the closest gym is over 45 minutes away.

My college age nephew gave me a body weight routine he does and I am wondering what you guys do when gym time is unavailable ...

Body weight routine:

AM
100 Pushups
100 Sit-ups
100 Bodyweight squats

PM
100 Pushups
100 Sit-ups
100 Bodyweight squats

I cannot do 100 of any at 1 time so I was thinking over breaking in 5 rounds ... perhaps with a short rest (1 minute) in between rounds.

Does this sound reasonable or do you have other non-gym recommendations ... ?

If you do want to get a quick workout in you could always break them into sets of 20 and do a circuit routine. Maybe that’s what you were saying with the 5 rounds.

 

[Diesel59]

I agree with others that taking the week off is a good idea.

I'm taking vacation in a few weeks. There will be a pool where I can try learning to swim more and burning some calories. But I'm going to give my body a break from the weights and just about everything else.

 

[Reader591]

I agree with others that taking the week off is a good idea.

I'm taking vacation in a few weeks. There will be a pool where I can try learning to swim more and burning some calories. But I'm going to give my body a break from the weights and just about everything else.

You can’t swim?

 

[white ape]

I agree with others that taking the week off is a good idea.

I'm taking vacation in a few weeks. There will be a pool where I can try learning to swim more and burning some calories. But I'm going to give my body a break from the weights and just about everything else.

I’m typically walking a lot on vacations and either in the ocean or playing with my kid in the pool so I’m getting some activity.

When I was in Europe earlier this year I was averaging 22k steps a day. One day almost hit 30k.

 

[Diesel59]

You can’t swim?

No

When I was in Europe earlier this year I was averaging 22k steps a day. One day almost hit 30k.

I'm guessing it was refreshing to be somewhere that wasn't super car dependent like 95% of the U.S. is?

 

[white ape]

No



I'm guessing it was refreshing to be somewhere that wasn't super car dependent like 95% of the U.S. is?

Always is. There were plenty of cars but I didn’t rent one. Cities were walkable and if I got tired there was solid public transport

 

[transcend2007]

No (To cannot swim question)

If you can learn to bench and squat you can learn to swim ... no problem ... just practice in the shallow end where you can standup if your start to drown or anything ... like 90% of life it is mostly mental ... I had to teach my previous wife how to swim .. being from Israel that was pretty common ... but she was scared to death of the water .. I taught her the same way I taught hundreds of kids when I was teenage lifeguard about 200 years ago .. lol .. its called the dog paddle ... it prevents dyeing because you don't know how to swim (and being scarred of it). You can literally learn in 1 afternoon ... and then practice of months and years plus learning other swimming methods (strokes) ...

 

[white ape]

If you can learn to bench and squat you can learn to swim ... no problem ... just practice in the shallow end where you can standup if your start to drown or anything ... like 90% of life it is mostly mental ... I had to teach my previous wife how to swim .. being from Israel that was pretty common ... but she was scared to death of the water .. I taught her the same way I taught hundreds of kids when I was teenage lifeguard about 200 years ago .. lol .. its called the dog paddle ... it prevents dyeing because you don't know how to swim (and being scarred of it). You can literally learn in 1 afternoon ... and then practice of months and years plus learning other swimming methods (strokes) ...

Learning proper strokes is important. Like I can swim but can’t SWIM. My strokes are inefficient and I expend too much energy too quickly

 

[PZT]

I use vacations as a Deload now days.

 

[j2048b]

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