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General Discussion => Sport => General Discussion Boards => Fitness => Topic started by: acinod on December 15, 2011, 07:08:07 pm
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Have to go overseas soon and too scared to try any of the gyms :(
Was wondering what my workout program would look like if I have absolutely NO equipment.
Don't want to just do push-ups all day (even though apparently that's all you need :O)
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If you stay at a hotel you may find theres a gym there.
Otherwise.., pushups, situps, mmm.. its hard to match the gym i spose.
Pack some resistance bands i guess!?
(http://www.makeoverfitness.com/images/stories/resistance-bands.jpg)
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Is it possible for you to ship a squat rack, a bench, Olympic plates and a Barbell to the place your going to?.
if not so adjustable dumbells, and a few 2.5/5 kilo plates would be great :).
The most I could bring are adjustable dumbells but even then they might be too heavy but I guess it should be okay.
And not staying at the hotel...more like the country...
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well resistance bands , put em behind a door or something and you got a form of resistance exercise there. and there cheap.
those big water bottles you get for the water machines, theyre pretty good too.
and oo, the country :D if youre on a farm, you're set! do some digging!, gardening!, move cows around, etc..
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Is it possible for you to ship a squat rack, a bench, Olympic plates and a Barbell to the place your going to?.
if not so adjustable dumbells, and a few 2.5/5 kilo plates would be great :).
The most I could bring are adjustable dumbells but even then they might be too heavy but I guess it should be okay.
And not staying at the hotel...more like the country...
If you could manage some adjustable dumbbells you could do all sorts, bench press, squats, lunges, extensions, it just depends on what muscles you're working on.
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Resistance bands are what you need to pack.
When I'm in India I'm using rice bags.
-bench press at the end of a single bed (double if you're big).
-Pushups for chest
-lighter rice bags for doing 'dumbell flies' on the ground
-Centred Pushups for triceps.
-Light rice bags for biceps.
-Carry heavy items on your forearms and squat up and down.
-You can also do this and then do walking lunges.
-If travelling with a small child, you can use them as weights too (seriously, they love it)
-Pull ups are great if you can find the right stuff.
-High intensity sprinting will also have some muscle gain effect if you don't sprint that often
-If you know how to safely lift things, then doing that repetitively is also very good
I've tried all of the above, and they do work quite nicely (some balance issues involved with the larger rice bags, but it works).
Give it a go
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Resistance bands are what you need to pack.
When I'm in India I'm using rice bags.
-bench press at the end of a single bed (double if you're big).
-Pushups for chest
-lighter rice bags for doing 'dumbell flies' on the ground
-Centred Pushups for triceps.
-Light rice bags for biceps.
-Carry heavy items on your forearms and squat up and down.
-You can also do this and then do walking lunges.
-If travelling with a small child, you can use them as weights too (seriously, they love it)
-Pull ups are great if you can find the right stuff.
-High intensity sprinting will also have some muscle gain effect if you don't sprint that often
-If you know how to safely lift things, then doing that repetitively is also very good
I've tried all of the above, and they do work quite nicely (some balance issues involved with the larger rice bags, but it works).
Give it a go
become a rickshaw driver for a day haha... , that'd get you ripped XD
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I tried using my ex girlfriend as weights once. Regardless of whether or not that contributed to the break up, it was worth it.
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Convict Conditioning details bodyweight exercises quite comprehensively
http://www.mediafire.com/?5qtvvcxtq4r7t17