Exercise on the road

[swan_tower]

Apropos of my previous post: any recommendations as to ways for me to get exercise on a trip that will involve a new city almost every single day? I know that if step one is “leave your room and go to the hotel gym,” I won’t manage it. But stuff I can do in my room, without equipment — that might happen. I’ll need to do PT for my ankle regardless, so I’m going to have to set aside time for activity; it should be possible to tack other things on, if people have suggestions.

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[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

Yoga? Or sit-ups and whatnot, I suppose, but jumping jacks would probably be loud for the people below you.

I've seen travel weights for sale that have like expandable bottles on the end that you fill with water when you get where you're going.

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

There are LOTS of exercises the require no equipment, and no gym:

1. Burpees (aka squat-thrusts) are, by far, one of the best exercises out there. They work the entire body.

2. Just good old pushups - you can do them on your knees if you aren't able to do them on your toes.

3. Tricep dips: need nothing more than a chair (and the bed, or another chair if you want to kick it up a notch and put your heels on the other chair instead of the ground.

4. Good old squats.

5. Front/side planks.

6. Yoga "crunch" style pose/move: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/12/health/la-he-try-this-yogi-crunches-20130112

7. Russian Twists - lift your legs off the floor much like in #6, and then twist your upper body side to side, lightly touching your hands to the floor at the end of each "twist."

8. Lunges - you can do them front/back, or side.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Do you like Pilates? They have DVDs for mat workouts for that to introduce the exercises if you're not familiar, and then you can mix and match those on the floor with whatever yoga stuff and other exercises you might like, even if you don't have a DVD player in a given hotel room.

[vcmw]

I was thinking about pilates too. If you don't have travel space for a mat, a towel can stand in not-too-badly. I have a DVD but I think there are downloadable videos for that kind of thing you could put on a phone or tablet too.

[pathseeker42.livejournal.com]

The "Seven Minute Workout." I normally go through this twice as a warm up to running, but it works well by itself, too.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-minute-workout/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

[gollumgollum.livejournal.com]

This. One of my hockey friends swears by it.

[hakamadare.livejournal.com]

maybe 5BX/XBX? i've had hit-or-miss experience with these (my level of fitness is generally such that some exercises at a given tier are easy for me and some are difficult), and they also may not be at all a good fit for your ankle.

-steve

[eve-prime.livejournal.com]

Maybe yoga, Pilates, or basic calisthenics, accompanied by helpful videos on your laptop. YouTube has oodles of yoga videos; I haven't looked for the others.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

If you know any yoga techniques, they can be done in your room. Also, hotels have long hallways, which can be walked (quietly, even). Depending on where they are, such as in a bustling downtown, the walks can even be to interesting places.

[rosefox]

Download the You Are Your Own Gym app to your phone or tablet, or pick up the book and/or DVDs if you don't have an app-compatible device. Highly highly recommended.

Also, Netflix has a lot of yoga and pilates videos on Watch Instantly.