Thread: Any good hotel routines? (where no gym or weights)

Hi everyone

I'm new to this site and to BB. I've been training about a year, my form and nutrition is right, but my progress is hampered by the amount of travel I do for work. Most hotels don't have any equipment, and since I travel long haul flights from Australia I don't want to cart any around.

Does anybody have any good routines that will maintain strength and size that one can carry out in a hotel room?

Finally, any travel tips relating to maintaining a low fat, hi protein diet while travelling? Restaurants twice a day and carting tubs of protein around suck!

Cheers, Munchie

BTW I think these forums are great, I'm impressed by the community here and the level of informed comment.

There are lots of simple bodyweight exercises you can do when you have no better option. You can add to these by buying a theraband that will give you some resistance (it's better than nothing, cheap and easy to store in a bag).

Bodyweight exercises include: pushups, squats, standing lunges, chins (if possible), dips on the edge of a chair, you can use books or full bottles for shoulders and biceps, calf raises.

If you have a theraband you can do rows, bicep curls, tricep extensions, squats with resistance, shoulder presses/lateral raises/front raises/rear flyes.

Of course you can do abs anywhere and anytime.

It doesn't take much to get a good workout...do it circuit style and you will do fine. It's not as good as throwing iron around, but it will give your body something different.