Exercise on Vacation? YES!

me sprintingIt’s a beautiful morning at the Beach – Yes!  We had quite a bit of rain thru Tuesday, but all of us have managed to be outside – a lot – and prove the odd fact that burning is possible on cloudy days:)

I got a question about my workouts when I’m on vacation, actually, it was a comment that I must take a “vacation” from working out when I’m on vacation.  NEVER!  I LOVE to workout!  I feel stressed when I DON’T workout, and I’m lucky to have a husband who feels the same way, so when we travel, we workout together.  And when we Don’t travel together, we STILL workout.

By the way, have you seen how cute my husband is?me and mark

 

This week has been a “normal” workout-vacation/weekend away- workout routine:  lift every morning, do sprints a few times, ride bike and walk EVERYWHERE.  I rarely waste a moment on a cardio machine when I’m away, as I’m a huge sightseer and bike riding, walking enthusiast.  Seems like a more efficient use of gym time this way.

I haven’t talked too much about exercise, because I’m trying to drill in that when it come to health and weight, FOOD RULES.  All these years of Main Stream advice about  “burning calories through exercise”?  It’s not true.  Trust me.  Not only does science show this, but as of this date, July, 2013, I’ve worked in gyms for 26 years.  Exercise does not make you skinny, or cover up bad eating. Exercise can make you HEATLHY, and if you do the right things, it can give you a great shape, but you’ll never Out-Exercise a Bad Diet.  Ever.  What’s the typical calorie burn of an hour or so of exercise?  Maybe 400 calories?  There’s 3600 calories in a pound.  You won’t even access much fat for fuel if you have lots of sugar/glucose and insulin in your bloodstream (as in, you just ate a big bowl of cereal or oatmeal and then went to the gym).

That being said, I think Exercise is maybe one of the best, most fun things in the whole world! It’s a blessing and a gift from God.  I love my classes, I love my gym, I love my clients, I love to train, I love to move;  it all feels good to me.  When my kids were little, it was my escape.  Now that they’re older, it’s still my escape!  By the way, here’s a picture of me and girls from a couple months ago-

me:girls

Want to know what I’ve been doing this week? Here’s the scoop:

Sunday – 13 sets of squats w dumbbells, 13 sets of chest (press from different angles) 4 sets of abs, biked almost an hour in the morning, and again after dinner

Monday – 13 sets of hamstrings (deadlifts and ham curls), 13 sets of biceps, 4 sets of abs, 8 driveway sprints (we’ve got a STEEP, but short hill) , biked almost an hour in the morning, and again after dinner

Tuesday – 13 sets of leg extensions/quads, 13 sets of shoulders (overhead presses, lat lifts, front delts, push ups),  4 sets planks,  bike rides in AM and PM

Wednesday – 10 sets of glutes (warrior 3 weighted squats, deadlifts, weighted glut squeezes), 14 sets of triceps (OH extensions, french presses, tricep pushups), 10 hill sprints, AM and PM bike rides

All my gym workouts have lasted between 30 and 40 minutes, short and sweet.

No great water workouts, because the water’s AWFUL!  We tried to paddle board yesterday, but between the wind and the waves, there’s not much fun to be had in the ocean.  It’s one of those years where almost no one’s in the water:(   Thank goodness for the pool:)

So that’s it in a nutshell.  Next week I have 4 days of a Nutritional Therapy Workshop in a hotel, I’ll be sure to post my food and workouts then too.

ps – have you checked out my What I’m Eating page?  I’m updating that every day I’m on vacation.

 

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