The hotel’s gym probably sucks, but you don’t have to let that stop you from burning flab and gaining muscle as you travel. I’ve gone over to Tampa-Bay not too long ago for several days and it was a very busy time, but my workouts didn’t get left out at all. Wednesday’s routine used DB swings and push-ups paired together rather than my normal kettlebell drills. Friday’s workout was a fast-paced fat-burn and muscle-build in the hotel’s gym using mega sets of high-rep DB pressing, splitting squat reps and top half drills.

My routine was complete in less than half an hour even though the stuff in the room was completely worthless. Seriously, the machines were trash and as well as the cardio stuff. The dumbbells in there were all too light, but I made up for that with more reps.

What I’m saying is that you can get creative and still keep your body in good shape even when you’re out of town. Honestly, though, I didn’t want to exercise at all on the last day, but I heard a rousing talk given by a wrestler who inspired me to fight laziness and get some exercise done.

He set the example: he came in to the resort after two in the morning and still went to the pool and did some workouts rather than go to bed.

I want to be that committed to fitness: do you? I really had to fight slothfulness the next morning because I was supposed to leave and I didn’t want to get saddled by a training session.

Still, I broke down and forced myself to exercise.

I made up the Hotel-Room 750 and did that many repetitions before I checked out. This series included the lunge, the push up, the stick up, climbing mountains, and plenty of others.