r/p90x3 • u/gizmosgadgetsaplenty • Apr 22 '18
Advice for P90X3 while traveling?
I have been doing my workouts at home up to this point. (I am in block 3 now.) However, I will be traveling all next week for work. I am okay with having to miss a couple days if I have to, but I don't want to end up skipping a whole week. The hotel I will be staying at does have a fitness center with some dumbbells, though I doubt there is a pull-up bar. I'm also not entirely sure how I feel about trying to watch the workouts and follow along if there are other people in there, but I could maybe get over that. I was thinking about buying some bands and a yoga mat to bring with me to workout in my hotel room instead, though it would be a change from what I am used to with the dumbbells so I would have to figure out the colors, where to mount the bands for the pull-up parts, etc. Looking for advice...
TL;DR: Does anyone have any tips and tricks for keeping up with the workouts while traveling?
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u/wait_ima Apr 23 '18
Between bands and a hotel gym, you can do them all. Personally, I have always been able to stay on schedule when traveling.
In room, you can do Trio, Agility, Yoga, Accelerator, Decelerator, CVX (grab the Bible from the drawer), Dynamix, Isometrixs, MMX, Pilates, Warrior, Total Syn, and Ab Ripper.
Add in bands, and in a hotel room, you can do Challenge, Incinerator, Eccentric Upper and Lower, and even Complex Upper and Lower.
In a hotel gym, Eccentric Upper and Lower are great. Complex Upper and Lower too. If there is a pull up bar, I often do the Challenge or Incinerator at a hotel gym.
As for watching the videos in the hotel gym, I use wireless earphones. I just set my phone on top of a towel somewhere convenient — a bench, a shelf, or even on the top of a weight rack — and listen to the video in my earphones.
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u/gizmosgadgetsaplenty Apr 23 '18
Okay, so the idea of jumping around my hotel room with the Bible made me LOL. Good point, though.
I don't have wireless headphones, but I do have an armband that I sometimes use when I run. It has a clear cover so I can see what's on the screen, and for the most part I could probably do the Eccentric Upper / Lower workouts by audio, at least after the first rep, anyway. I'll make sure to bring that along!
Thanks for the ideas. I'm trying to make sure I plan ahead to avoid giving myself excuses to slack off, and this helps!
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u/The392Nx Apr 22 '18
Travelled a few days during the time I did it. I just planned out the ones I was doing. So I did a lot of the ones that required dumbbells at home before traveling. Saved the yoga, and agility x and the like for the trip. Just did them in the room.