Fat Burning Workouts for Hotels & Travelers
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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 .
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.
Then 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.
I wasn’t planning to workout on Friday night, but I heard legendary American wrestler Dan Gable speak for 2 hours on Friday morning and it made me realize there is no reason to lie around and be lazy. Very inspiring and intense guy. Apparently the first thing he did upon arriving to the hotel on Saturday morning at 2:30am (due to delayed flights) was to sneak into the pool and workout. That’s dedication.
And Saturday morning, same thing. I wasn’t planning on a workout, but I felt like doing something before heading to the airport for a 6-hour journey home (including all the sitting around time).
So I ended up doing a hotel room workout that I’m calling the “Hotel Room Turbulence Training Bodyweight 750″. Seven hundred and fifty repetitions of various bodyweight exercises all that can be done in a hotel room.
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.
So overall, two 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.
My schedule was actually so jam-packed that I didn’t even go outside once in the 4 days I was in Tampa, since the hotel was connected to the airport. Fortunately the weather is stil quite nice in Toronto and I’ve been out a lot since getting home.
The next time you are on the road and want to stay fit, realize their are no excuses. From supersets you can do in the hotel gym to bodyweight exercises in your room (I don’t necessarily recommend sneaking into the hotel pool after hours). You can burn fat and get fit - no excuses.
By Craig Ballantyne
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Learn more workouts you can do in hotel rooms and find out how to burn more belly fat in the free report from Turbulence Training for Fat Loss. Craig Ballantyne’s interval training workouts have helped thousands of men and women with weight loss and fat burning in less than 45 minutes three times per week. Craig’s home gym workouts help you lose fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment. Craig’s bodyweight fat loss workouts help you lose fat without any equipment at all. You have permission to publish this article in your web sites, ezines or electronic publication, as long as the piece is used in its entirety including the resource box, all hyperlinks (HTML clickable) and references and copyright info |
on November 12th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
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