On The Road with HWR

While I'm on the road lately, I have been getting used to the morning and/or evening "hotel room workout".  With the ease of watching downloaded videos from the Home Workout Revolution series, I can follow along and get in my workout each day. 

You can imagine on the road, it can be challenge when you go from place to place, hotel to hotel, and find time for some workouts.  It is one reason why I love the HWR series of workouts, because they can go anywhere with me on my computer, and the space I need is just fine in my hotel room. Even in a room with 2 queen size beds, I can get in a solid HWR routine in the room space I have.

This week, I'm pretty fortunate to be in the same hotel all week and my schedule has a lot of open time in the mornings and evenings to get in some workouts.  I can wake up, get in a workout, shower up, get my continental breakfast, and be set for the day.

Right now I just have a handful of the 50+ workouts available on my computer, most of them are in the 20/10 work/rest pattern format.  Most of the exercises are 2, 3 or 4 minutes in length, following that 20/10 pattern.

The one workout I enjoy a lot starts with:
Jumping Jacks - 2 minutes of 20/10 x 4
Push-Ups - 2 minutes of 20/10 x 4
Bodyweight Squats - 4 minutes of 20/10 x 4
Mountain Climbers - 2 minutes of 20/10 x 4
Prisoner Lunges - 2 minutes of 20/10 x 4

In this workout, you get your basic body movements covered: squatting, lunging, pushing, bending, and some light pulling in the jumping jack action too.  Overall, the exercises hits your major muscle groups in a simple, effective way, and they aren't too complicated. Many have been done and may hearken you back to your physical education days. Who didn't do jumping jacks, mountain climbers, and push-ups back then?

Its like Amped Up Phy Ed, in a way: simple exercises that are more focused than it used to be. Instead of doing just sets of 10-15 of basic exercises, you do concise periods of work for each exercise.

For example, when doing push-ups, you can try to rip out 20-30 reps at once, but I'm sure you'll get tired past 10 and struggle to hit 20 and really hit a wall as you shoot for 30. 

When you do a 20/10 circuit of 4 times, you can get about 6-7 reps per 20 second period, getting 24-28 reps of push-ups in just 2 minutes of time, then letting you switch to another exercise.

Get more reps without getting wiped out all the time, like some other workouts may hit you with!

Check out the HWR series, if you haven't already. 

http://tinyurl.com/cbhwrevsale

Are you on the road and have time to read, too? Check out my Kindle guides at: http://tinyurl.com/rkofp

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Coach Rick Karboviak
Home Workouts Plus!