Holiday Maintanance.

Morning chaps,

So I am off to the bush for 9 days, maintaining diet won't be easy as I am being hosted but I will do my best. However, my main concern is the training. I have just taken a good few weeks off as a few of you know and just recently managed to claw back my escaped 3-4kgs. I am adamant I will not lose them again.

So the dilemma, I cannot unfortunately treat the next 9 amazing days as a simple 8 week training interim as I have only been back for 2 weeks tops.

So I would appreciate any of you who can sling some ideas my way for some form of training, to start slinging. Press ups, dips, burpees, I don't really care, if anything comes to mind, please, put it out there. I will have no access to weights whatsoever, maybe a rock or two.. I obviously have an idea but all the same I want to pick your brains :evil:

Good Stuff, cheers.

Wha ha ha:p you can do dead lifts with a car:lol:

I'm thinking some lekka Crossfit training in the Bushveld.

Tyre flips, Tyre Carry (maybe theres and old John Deere Tyre lying around somewhere).
Not sure what it's called by we do a squat press with a 'lapa pole'. Squat down and then press up with the pole.
Any form of a step can be magic, Step up kick, step down, lunge.

Hope it helps???

Perhaps a morning jog to burn off some excess fat

Your concern holds great merit bud! I recently had to go to South America 1 day after my last pin and apart from the daily great steak i had my nutrition was not so good. To top it off i got a little food poisening from the airplane food on my way back. Lost about 5kg since last week wednesday.

My tips: stick to as much protein and veggies as you can. The carbs you will be consuming would probably be of the not so good type so try and keep those to a minimum. I was forced to eat bread/cheese/cold meats for breakfast every morning. I have not had food like that the last 5 months! Off course there was copious amounts of sweet stuff offered with every meal.

Try and do some form of cardio for at least 30min every morning - fasted if possible. This is where true dedication comes in - keeping it clean while on holiday.

All the best

I agree, and if need be pack in some whey, biltong, etc and keep your food intake as clean as possible, with the aim of maintaining your mass.

When I'm out of town and stranded, I usually do push ups (outter and inner shoulder positions) until failure, and dips from a chair.

Heavy Duty boet. Just do one session before you leave and when you get back you'll be in time for the next one :whistle:
Kidding

I think you best bet would be your burpees, pushups, chinups if there is a tree, single leg squats if you can do it and make throwing in some isometrics could help. I really think ANYTHING will go a long way towards holding onto that muscle.

I bought myself a nice 25kg kettlebell that I take with me whenever I vacation. It was like R200 so maybe drop a few notes on something like that.

You can't beat burpees when it comes to bodyweight exercises. I have plenty of crossfit travelling workouts that I can forward to you if you want. All high intensity stuff that will get your heart rate up whilst still giving your body a decent beating

Also consider some tabata drills. Some handstand push ups against a wall to work those shoulders.

Let me know if you're interested and I'll forward you the list.

an example is:

10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1

Burpees, hand stand push ups (if you can), Sit ups

pr0gr3s1v3 wrote: Wha ha ha:p you can do dead lifts with a car:lol:

There will be a few land rovers lying around, little bit light but I will cope

Rookie wrote: I'm thinking some lekka Crossfit training in the Bushveld.

Tyre flips, Tyre Carry (maybe theres and old John Deere Tyre lying around somewhere).
Not sure what it's called by we do a squat press with a 'lapa pole'. Squat down and then press up with the pole.
Any form of a step can be magic, Step up kick, step down, lunge.

Hope it helps???

Shot, there probably will be some of that. If not I will nick a tyre haha

beemer wrote: Perhaps a morning jog to burn off some excess fat

Also not a bad idea, but scared of the muscle loss, I really am adamant not to lose anything.. haha..

ABC01 wrote: Your concern holds great merit bud! I recently had to go to South America 1 day after my last pin and apart from the daily great steak i had my nutrition was not so good. To top it off i got a little food poisening from the airplane food on my way back. Lost about 5kg since last week wednesday.

My tips: stick to as much protein and veggies as you can. The carbs you will be consuming would probably be of the not so good type so try and keep those to a minimum. I was forced to eat bread/cheese/cold meats for breakfast every morning. I have not had food like that the last 5 months! Off course there was copious amounts of sweet stuff offered with every meal.

Try and do some form of cardio for at least 30min every morning - fasted if possible. This is where true dedication comes in - keeping it clean while on holiday.

All the best

Wow sounds like you had it great.. airplane food always tends to turn around and bite you in the ass.. I will definitely be keeping the carbs relatively low, about 200gr a day and will up the fats and protein as mush as possible, unfortunately they are already not so stoked about me having to bring extra food so I may just mission into Nelspruit and buy what I need there..

Stanabolic wrote: I think you best bet would be your burpees, pushups, chinups if there is a tree, single leg squats if you can do it and make throwing in some isometrics could help. I really think ANYTHING will go a long way towards holding onto that muscle.

I bought myself a nice 25kg kettlebell that I take with me whenever I vacation. It was like R200 so maybe drop a few notes on something like that.

Ya they are worried about space, and some bright spark decided we would drive up in my friends yaris because they don't want to spend the money on fuel in my defender, so rather than cause more hassle I doubt I'll buy the kettlebell but thanks for those ideas that helps.

ninjajuice wrote: You can't beat burpees when it comes to bodyweight exercises. I have plenty of crossfit travelling workouts that I can forward to you if you want. All high intensity stuff that will get your heart rate up whilst still giving your body a decent beating

Also consider some tabata drills. Some handstand push ups against a wall to work those shoulders.

Let me know if you're interested and I'll forward you the list.

an example is:

10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1

Burpees, hand stand push ups (if you can), Sit ups

This sounds great, guess I am going to have to learn some stuff fast any chance you could forward one or two workouts? Nothing overly drastic I will probably train every second day.



Thanks guys didn't expect so many replies!

Sure bro, I have quite a few documents. Ask admin for my email address and I'll send them all to you. That way you can pick and choose. Most are very simple. If anything doesn't make sense I'll answer all your questions or just watch clips on youtube.

Just take a shake weight with you !!!all in one gym that thing !!!

Here's a little motivation for them handstand pushups bro

Take a pillow sheet or two and fill them up with sand. Sure you can do a thing or two.

Nice one Kkkyle :woohoo: someone you know?

Haha I freakin wish! Check all the supps behind the pot plant!

Our Bootkamp training was moved indoors earlier. The trainer killed us on a aerobic step.
So many forms of excercises one can do on that.
All you need is a step / elevated something and ur A for Away...

Kkkyle wrote: Haha I freakin wish! Check all the supps behind the pot plant!

:whistle: kyle............... :blink: im afraid i have some BAD news for you.... if you actually noticed the supps in the background :pinch: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Hahahahahahahahaha! +1 for that comment PoisonedPulse! Hahahahahaha

lol, I didn't see them either

Yoh still can't see them..

Found them!!!

To the right of the picture, round that lovely little rump, between the washing basket and pot plant.
Ah, eyes are sore from staring at the computer screen now.

You got them Chap?

It seems my girlfriend has me well trained :pinch: :blush: Like one of em horses that pull carts with the things on the side of the eyes to stop them from looking at the other horse haha :lol:

Inja wrote: Found them!!!

To the right of the picture, round that lovely little rump, between the washing basket and pot plant.
Ah, eyes are sore from staring at the computer screen now.

You got them Chap?

by the frid... no still not it..

There's a fridge! :ohmy: