Traveling constantly

[Glock63]

What are options for someone who travels a lot for work?

I was thinking resistance bands, but I have been told they are worthless.

I travel constantly over the world. I'll be in Nigeria for months soon. We are going to have to get escorted by military to and from work, so there's pretty much no chance of going to a gym, if they even exist there.

Anyone have any advice?

[keyboardworkout]

Bodyweight exercises.

Sand bag/Bulgarian bag you can fill at your destination and then empty for travel

[PaulWog]

What are options for someone who travels a lot for work?

I was thinking resistance bands, but I have been told they are worthless.

I travel constantly over the world. I'll be in Nigeria for months soon. We are going to have to get escorted by military to and from work, so there's pretty much no chance of going to a gym, if they even exist there.

Anyone have any advice?

As keyboard workout said, bodyweight exercises are highly useful. And if you can get some sort of fillable bag (something of the sort), as he said, that could definitely serve as a useful piece of equipment (squats, deadlifts, rows, chest press... lots of things it could be used for).

If I traveled all the time, I would likely take with me a doorway pull-up/chinup bar and some resistance bands (yes, they are useful). And then of course there's a skipping rope. I'd call those three things extremely useful choices. If you have even more room with what you're packing, you can get doorway dip bars, an ab roller, an inflatable exercise ball, etc... lots of things that are not necessary, but can make you feel like you have a few more options being on-the-go.

I don't know everything when it comes to bodyweight exercises, but here's a general layout of things you can do with the pull-up bar & resistance bands. There should be a lot more than I've listed:

biceps: chinups (various grip styles), pull-ups, one-armed chin-ups, assisted chinups/pullups (loop a resistance band around the chin-up bar, put your knee in it, and voila), assisted bicep curls using your body and a chair (lean back under the chair, and do a sort-of chin-up type move), resistance band curls, resistance band hammer curls, reverse resistance band curls (palm facing downward)

triceps: pushups, diamond pushups, assisted (knee) pushups, resistance band pushes (if you can, get a chair or two, attach the resistance band to a bed or something sturdy, and then get some tension on it so you're standing further away... then at an angle, do pushes), overhead triceps extensions with resistance band, dips (with chairs, or whatever you can find for doing dips)

shoulders: a lot of the above already hits shoulders in a compound way, then of course there's a lot of resistance band moves (military band presses, front band raises, side band raises, vertical band rows), if you're flexible and you have a pull-up bar you can use a resistance band looped around your pull-up bar and put your foot through it and do assisted hand-stand military presses (would want some pillows around you though)

back: pull-ups, chin-ups, various band exercises (band rows, band reverse flies), bodyweight good mornings

legs: one-leg squats, resistance band squats, lunges, cardio (skip rope, etc), one-leg calf raises

traps: resistance band shrugs

[Wildtim]

What are options for someone who travels a lot for work?

I was thinking resistance bands, but I have been told they are worthless.

I travel constantly over the world. I'll be in Nigeria for months soon. We are going to have to get escorted by military to and from work, so there's pretty much no chance of going to a gym, if they even exist there.

Anyone have any advice?

I would also go with bands. just make sure you get the kind where you can add all the resistance you want. Like Bodylastics, that way if you want to do a 200 pound squat, you can etc.

Gymnastic rings or a TRX system could also be options.

[ironwill2008]

Bands.

[skione]

What are options for someone who travels a lot for work?

I was thinking resistance bands, but I have been told they are worthless.

I travel constantly over the world. I'll be in Nigeria for months soon. We are going to have to get escorted by military to and from work, so there's pretty much no chance of going to a gym, if they even exist there.

Anyone have any advice?

Glock...
I feel your pain....I travel too and it's pretty difficult to get good workouts in on the road. Nothing like the heavy lifting I do at home in my home gym. Some hotels have Dumbells most do not....always stuck with the requisite treadmill, or elliptical and that's it. I echo the above.....my bag has a set of Bodylastics bands(Terell Owen Edition) it's a pretty good set....best on the market as far as strength bands go.....a set of Powerline chinup bars you can throw over any door, the Travel version of Power Pushups which are pretty compact....and those Ab Straps I throw over a door in conjunction with the T.O. Door attachments. You can also add he Ab roller if you want I don't, tho I do have one. All in all I can do a lot with all that....better than nothing.... Sux to have to pack all that especially when I'm already packing for a week on the road at a time....it adds about 10 pounds or so to my bag......

Good Luck!!!
Let me know if you can't find these items and I'll post links to all of it if you need it.

[pcake]

bands can be useful - i like the bodylastics systems because of their clips, adjustability, and also their heaviest bands are pretty useful doubled or tripled up.

[xJeebsx]

I travel for work as well and use bands and a pull up bar. I will warn you that some hotel door frames are extra wide, so make sure the pull up bar you get is wide enough. I have also found that some gyms will let you workout for a small fee if you tell them you are traveling.