Summer Vacation

I hope that you’ve seen my posts about planning for my summer vacation. If you have not, please check out my blog series, so far.

• Part 1 on picking Where to Go and Picking Lodging
• Part 2 on Food and Activities
• Part 3 on Packing List
• Part 4 on the Last Week To-Do’s

Lifting Weights / Resistance Training

As I hope you also know, I’ve also been posting a blog series about my Lifting Weights / Resistance Training.

Part 1 of Lifting Weights / Resistance Training post where I covered:

• Why lifting weights is important to me
• Misconceptions women make about lifting weights
• Things to-do
• Lifting program weeks 1 – 5

Part 2 of Lifting Weights / Resistance Training where I covered:

• My workouts for weeks 6 – 10
• Articles that discuss general guidelines about training and the menstrual cycle

Part 3 of Lifting Weights / Resistance Training where I covered:

• My workouts for weeks 11 – 15
• Switching-up Workout Style
• Rest Week & Life

Part 4 of Lifting Weights / Resistance Training where I covered:

• Life Happens
• My workouts for weeks 16 – 21
• Full Body Workouts – Mostly Large Compound Lifts

These two blog series converge at my vacation!

Vacation Training

I did research on local gyms around where we are going to be staying, however most of them are private clubs (personal training or group classes only) or Cross-fit Gyms. The couple of big-box-gyms I found are a little far from where we are staying.

This is a good time to switch things up for a week. Who wants to go on vacation and do the same types of movement and lifting as when they are at home? I’m loving the idea of breaking-up the monotony.

My plan for vacation is to continue to put forth a consistent effort to still get in movement each day by doing some hiking, swimming, and or kayaking.

I want to take this time to do a plug for a lady I love and follow on YouTube, Jen Heward, who has a Home Workout Kit that will also travel well. I’d love to purchase this to use while on vacation, but if I decide not to spend my money on this now, I will in the future for sure.

I’m still kicking around the idea of taking my traditional resistance bands with me. I’ve not decided yet.

I also have not decided how much or little I will train while on vacation. To be prepared, I have some body-weight circuit style workouts that are perfect for vacation or training at home.

6 Days of Body-Weight Workouts

Day 1 (Repeat 1 – 5x) 

• 15 Air Squats
• 10 Push-ups
• 15 Jumping Jacks
• 10 Single Leg Deadlifts
• 8 Hand Walkouts
• 8 (per leg) Alternating Reverse Lunge
• 20 sec. Plank 
• 8 Glute Bridge
• 15 Slow Mountain Climbers

Day 2 (Repeat 1 – 5x) 

• 10-15 Push-ups
• 12 (per leg) Walking Lunges
• 15 Jumping Jacks
• 30 sec. Plank
• 8 Hand Walkouts
• 15 Air Squats
• 18 Slow Mountain Climbers
• 10 Glute Bridge

Day 3 (Repeat 1 – 5x) 

• 12 (per leg) Alternating Forward Lunges
• 10 Push-ups
• 20 Slow Mountain Climbers
• 12 Bulgarian Split Squats
• 8 Hand Walkouts
• 45 Sec Planks
• 12 (per leg) Alternating Reverse Lunges
• 12 Glute Bridge

Day 4 (Repeat 1 – 5x) 

• 10 (per leg) Step-ups
• 12 Push-ups
• 45 sec Plank
• 15 Air Squats
• 15 (per leg) Alternating Side Lunges
• 30 secs of Mountain Climbers
• 20 sec Side Plank (1:15)
• 12 Glute Bridges

Day 5 (Repeat 1 – 5x) 

• Dips
• 15 Air Squats
• 15 Jumping Jacks
• 15 Push-ups
• 12 (per leg) Single Leg Deadlifts
• 6 Side-to-Side Hand Walkouts
• 12 (per leg) Alternating Reverse Lunges
• 45 sec Plank
• 12 Single-leg Glute Bridges

Day 6 (Repeat 1 – 5x) 

• 12 Single-leg Glute Bridges
• 45 secs of Jumping Jacks
• 30 sec Side Plank
• 15 (per leg) Forward Lunges
• 10 Hand Walkouts
• 20 Air Squats
• 60 sec Plank
• 15 Push-ups

When I return, I’ll be starting Weeks 23 – 27 of my regularly scheduled training; to be shared in Part 5 of Lifting Weights / Resistance Training coming in August.