Tips for Training While Traveling - Beast Over Burden - #535

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🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Tips for Training While Traveling: Whys

Why train while traveling?

While, in part, it depends on how often you travel, your goals, the length of travel, and how consistent you are outside of travel. For those who are extremely consistent and rarely travel, it might make sense to take the week off.

If you travel for business, you need to train.

You will feel better if you train. The workout might not feel good, especially to start, but you will feel better afterwards. You might even feel better during the workout (e.g. initial warm ups feel terrible, then the heavier warm ups and work sets move well and feel good).

It also helps provide structure to your days, which on vacation can often lack structure. Additionally, it gives you some short amount of you time, and, importantly, healthy you time.

Tips for Training While Traveling: Hows

Incorporate your gym seeking into your travel planning. Checkout the hotel gym and nearby gyms. You can often find a serviceable gym that has a guest policy. You might need to call the gym to check the visitor policy.

Pack and prioritize some equipment. Belts and other bulky items are not needed. Having a pair of shoes that you can both lift and do cardio with makes sense. You might pack some small things like liquid chalk, straps, or knee sleeves.

Plan your workout ahead of time. Intend to do at least something hard - get into that "worth it" zone.

Depending on the number of times you will train and decide whether you will do full body and a split. Fewer times means full body makes more sense.

Besides that, Niki and Andrew have some general tips and approaches they take:

Mentally let go of the weight on the bar
AMRAPs
supersets (antagonistic or similar)
burn out sets
drop sets
hard exercises that don't require tons of weight (e.g. bulgarian split squats)
bend these joints: knees, shoulders, elbows, hips

Try out these tips for training while traveling.

A couple links for helping you train while traveling can be found here & here.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Barbell Logic.
0:04.7	The podcast where we talk about what it means to experience strength.
0:08.3	And how you can use simple, hard and effective strategies in training and nutrition to improve your life.
0:15.0	It starts with meeting you where you are right now and finding lasting solutions.
0:20.0	Welcome to the show. Hello everybody.
0:35.0	welcome to the Barbelogic podcast.
0:37.0	Welcome to Beastover Birden.
0:38.0	I'm your host Nicky Sims.
0:39.7	I'm a coach and chief experience officer at Barbell Logic.
0:42.9	With me is Andrew Jackson.
0:44.8	Good morning.
0:46.6	Andrew is also a coach and he is the Chief Operations Officer
0:49.9	at Barbell Logic and the Product Manager
0:51.7	for a turnkey coach.
0:53.0	Nice to be with you today, excited about being back.
0:58.0	Spring finally.
0:59.0	Actually, I don't know if it's technically spring yet, but it sort of feels different when the hour, the clock jumps ahead.
1:06.0	Yeah, definitely taking daylight savings time. That's been wonderful.
1:10.0	But yeah, we just got back from a, about a week-long trip, which I highly recommend everybody do.
1:17.9	Taking a vacation is really nice.
1:21.9	It gets super cut up in working and training and just like into the grind as they say and
1:28.8	man it's refreshing just to step out of it for a moment and only will make you appreciate things more in my opinion.
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