160302 - CrossFit Benchmark | Wednesdays with Hannah
How to Workout While Traveling (or Stuck at Home in the Snow)
It is all too easy to make excuses to workout, like “I can’t work out because I am traveling” or “There is too much snow for me to make it to Crossfit so I can’t possibly workout.” Here are some things you CAN do in those situations:
- If you are traveling, see if there is a Crossfit gym nearby that you can contact in advance to request to drop in. If not, perhaps you can get a short term pass to another gym nearby.
- Interval bodyweight exercises. Push ups, sit ups, lunges, squats, etc. Such a great workout and you need very little space or equipment. Perfect for a hotel room or when you are stuck at home due to nasty weather/unsafe roads!
- If traveling, another option is going for a run (interval sprints, anyone?) or using a local playground to do pullups and other exercises on! I found one recently and practiced headstands and handstand work against the flat wall on the side of the playground equipment.
- Do something! Get outside for a hike or rent a bike to see the area you are staying in.
- Look up a 20 minute vinyasa yoga video on youtube. Even if you don’t have a yoga mat or blocks, you can usually make do with a towel and pillows/books (or just skip that movement with the blocks), or do yoga outside if the weather is nice.
- Use this time to work on skills you really need practice with! For me, that means pistol squats!
I’d love to hear other suggestions for travel workouts/being stuck at home! How do you get your movement in when you can’t get to our favorite box CFNFC?
-Hannah P.