You can burn fat and build muscle even if you are staying
in a hotel and using a crappy hotel gym. There are no
excuses. In fact, you can even do a fat burning workout in
your own hotel room with bodyweight exercises.
Here's how to workout for fat loss when traveling...
I recently did a 4 day trip to Tampa Bay, where I was busy
with a seminar, but still needed to do my workouts. On
Wednesday, I did dumbell swings supersetted with pushups in
a fast workout that replaced my normal Wednesday workout
with kettlebells.
A dumbell swing or kettlebell swing is a great fat burning
exercise. Just hold a light dumbell or kettlebell in both
hands (or in one hand), squat down, and swing the weight
between your legs behind you, then stand up and use that
momentum to swing the weight up to chest height.
Be careful, and don't let the weight hit your legs or body.
Two days later, I did a decent fat burning, muscle building
Turbulence Training workout in the hotel gym on Friday
night. Supersets of dumbell chest presses (very high reps)
and split squats and some other upper body stuff.
Got this hotel gym workout done in only 25 minutes. It was
another classic hotel gym set-up. A bunch of relatively
useless (and definitely inefficient) machines, along with a
lot of cardio equipment, and then some light dumbells.
Its annoying, but when you know as many exercises as I do,
its not that hard to come up with a decent hotel gym
workout as long as you use the Turbulence Training
principles of Supersets and intervals if you want to do
cardio.
So here's a general plan on how to workout when traveling,
even when you are pressed for time.
Down in the gym, simply pick a dumbell exercise and a
bodyweight exercise and pair them together in a superset,
doing one exercise and then the other with no rest.
Try to pick an upper body exercise and a lower body
exercise (i.e. a dumbell chest press and a forward lunge)
or a pushing exercise and a pulling exercise (such as a
pushup and a dumbell row). Do 3 sets of 8-15 repetitions
for each exercise.
If you are really pressed for time, you can do bodyweight
only exercises in your hotel room. A circuit of bodyweight
squats, pushups, lunges and abdominal planks will use all
the muscles in your body and boost your metabolism for the
day.
I ended my stay with a bodyweight workout in my hotel room
on the Saturday morning before my flight. I did a
Turbulence Training Bodyweight 750 repetition workout.
I used lunges, pushup variations, stickups, mountain
climbers, and plenty of others as I trained for about 30
minutes and felt great afterward - I really benefit from
this type of activity before going to the airport and being
strapped into a seat for 3 hours.
Overall, 3 surprisingly good hotel workouts using
bodyweight and dumbell exercises only. Goes to show you
there is no excuse for letting up on your fat burning
workout routine when you are on the road - even when you
are really busy.
You can do supersets in the hotel gym and bodyweight
exercises in your room. So no matter where you are, you can
burn fat and get fit - no excuses.
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