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🗓️ 14 January 2025
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If you travel regularly, you will have to continue to strength train as you travel. Learn fitness travel hacks in this ultimate guide to strength training while traveling.
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.
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:
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 | All right, all right, all right. |
0:01.4 | Welcome to the Barbell Logic podcast, Beast Over Burden. |
0:04.9 | I'm Nikki Sims. |
0:05.9 | With me as Andrew Jackson. |
0:07.4 | Long time, no C. |
0:08.9 | It's been a long time. |
0:10.2 | Full week. |
0:11.0 | It's too long. |
0:12.3 | So we've got a fun one. |
0:13.6 | I like this episode because you and I were in it, |
0:16.7 | among many other reasons. |
0:18.7 | But this one we did just in 2024, tips for training while traveling, |
0:23.7 | which you and I do a lot of, a lot of traveling. Man, did we do a lot of that in 2024? |
0:31.1 | Yeah. I was actually thinking about going through my calendar to count the number of trips that |
0:36.7 | you and I have taken and how many different |
0:38.4 | gyms I've trained in in 2024. It's a bunch. And I would say I was traveling pretty much |
0:45.4 | every week for 2024 as a commuter. So lots of hard lessons learned on the road that we've packed into this one super-duper episode. |
0:59.3 | Yeah, there's a lot in here. |
1:00.2 | All things training while traveling. |
1:03.2 | Which I love that we have travel in our lives. |
1:05.5 | So if you're someone who doesn't want to sacrifice that and still wants to train, you can |
1:09.6 | totally do it. |
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