"Travel Workout"

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Hi Cathe!
I love your workouts, though I find myself laying on the floor praying for forgiveness at the end. I do travel with a fair amount of frequency to locations without fitness ameneties. I would love an intense, not to high impact, cardio workout that doesn't use special equipment, and a sculpting workout using things you can pack, ie; deflated stability balls (you reinflate them upon arrival), resistance bands etc. I would pay ANYTHING for these workouts so I wouldn't feel I got behind. :) :)
 
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I always take the Cardio Kick tape on vacation. It works well in a relatively small space and you don't need equipment. I've added Cathe's new kickboxing tape now also.
 
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Travel DVD for hotel rooms please. Please. Please.
General total body stuff with chairs, beds, bands. Please.
I'm need the DVD to keep me on track.
 
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My husband and I travel in the Fall for 2-3 months out of the year. We are usually all by ourselves, and use our generator to play DVD's. So, in order to keep fit, this would be great.

Please give us HARD w/o's with strength and core work, using bands, stability balls and kickboxing. We can hike and jog/run for cardio, but kickboxing is soooo much fun.

I pray for this series all the time. Want it, must have it, please.

Janie
 
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Love the travelling workout suggestion; it could be called Travel Max.

In the meantime, I'm pasting a mini-rotation I posted a few months ago to tide over the travellers. I just got back from vacay a few days ago and was seriously Cathe-deprived, so I feel your pain.

"Cathe Workouts On The Road":

While we are waiting not-so-patiently for Cathe to produce a workout strictly for travellers involving minimal or no equipment, I thought I'd throw out a few ideas for those gadflies who might want something in the interim; the only equipment you'd need would be the resistance band.

Cardio suggestions:

Cardio Kicks

Maximum Intensity Cardio floor segment (modify travelling moves by substituting moderate moves like marches in place or side-to-side steps all the way up to high intensity stuff like plyo jacks, plyo lunges or the like)

Kick Punch Crunch

Kick Max

CTX Power Circuit warm-up and hi/lo
CTX 10-10-10 kickbox warm-up and cardio plus hi/lo (again, modify for floor space requirements as noted above)
CTX Kickbox

Step Jump Pump hi/lo add-on sequence

Resistance training without equipment or with the band:

Chest: push-ups, push-ups and more push-ups (couldn't find anything using the band for pecs)

Muscle Max:
Band leg presses for glutes, hams and quads
PAUSE and perform push-ups for pecs
Muscle Max ab/core routine
Band lateral shoulder raises for the middle deltoid
Band triceps kickbacks
Optional: triceps dips off of a chair with one leg raised

Gym Style Legs:
Leg Press with band
Inner Thigh Lifts with band
Vertical Outer Thigh press with band
Outer Thigh Raise with band

Gym Style Back, Shoulders and Biceps:
Back T-Back Squeeze with band
Shoulder Front Raise with band
Shoulder Lateral Raise with band
Shoulder Rear Delt Raise with band
PAUSE: fashion the band as if you were going to do leg presses, but instead hold the band in an underhand grip and perform traditional biceps curls (you'll have to play with the length of the band from floor to grip to create the tension you need)

Gym Style Chest and Triceps:
Chest: push-ups, push-ups and more push-ups
Tris:
Band Bonus Burn Cross-Body Extensions
Band Bonus Burn Kickback

A suggested mini-rotation for your hotel room would be to do about 30-35 minutes of cardio utilizing the workouts noted above, and then get in at least one exercise for each muscle group from the DVDs noted above using the band for an overall muscle conditioning experience.

And, since you're packing a band anyway for the resistance work, sling in the Core Max and Stretch Max DVD's to get everything in.

A-Jock
 
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I really wish Cathe would consider this idea about a Travel Workout DVD. The suggestions listed above are great...except, I don't think the cardio (jumping, etc) is practical for a hotel setting. ? At least, I know I'd be super p*ssed off if someone on the floor above me was doing KPC. :/ I'm sure the hotel mgr would threaten to throw me out if I was doing any jumping around, too. lol

I love the idea for band and isometric exercises though! Please please consider a Travel W/O DVD! Hotel "gyms" are pretty boring, and lacking, most of the time. :/ And lugging around dbs just isn't practical for my type of travel.
 
RE: Workouts for the road warrier

>Hi Cathe!
>I love your workouts, though I find myself laying on the floor
>praying for forgiveness at the end. I do travel with a fair
>amount of frequency to locations without fitness ameneties. I
>would love an intense, not to high impact, cardio workout that
>doesn't use special equipment, and a sculpting workout using
>things you can pack, ie; deflated stability balls (you
>reinflate them upon arrival), resistance bands etc. I would
>pay ANYTHING for these workouts so I wouldn't feel I got
>behind. :) :)

I completely agree with this request. The only DVD I can use right now is Kick Max which is fantastic, but I do not want to use it consecutive days if there are other ones I can do :). Using the band as resistance could be an idea for the strength portion.

Thanks!
 
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I am on the road at least a week a month and always pack Kick Max, KPC, and MIC (hi-lo only) with me. I faithfully rotate through these for some great cardio. I also pack Ab Hits. If the hotel has a decent weight room (free weights) I write down all the moves in one of Cathe's strength tapes (Hardcore and Pyramids work great) and do them in the hotel gym. Works great!

However, I too would love a travel workout! I guess I'm lucky in the hotels I frequent as I don't hear anyone walking above me. If I don't hear anyone walking above me, I would assume no one hears me jumping around while doing MIC! :)

Lorrayne
 
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