If you're going on holiday for two or three weeks, keeping up with your exercise and drinking wine every day may not matter much. It's worse when you're travelling for a whole year... Travelling in a motorhome also involves definitely an increased risk of sedentary behaviour: first you drive and sit in the driver's seat, then you park and sit in the outdoor furniture... Finally, you really have to find a way to move!
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ShareIntensive training - and then a break
Some of you may remember that we trained hard when we were parked in Cap d'Agde in France in April. We actually did two (!) sessions Tapout XT per day. We continued to train (more sporadically) during May and early June, but then the heat came and we gave up! When we started training again yesterday, it was after a four-month break ...
Exercise pain
How did it feel today? You could say that we never felt so old and stiff and weak as today, haha. Talk about training pain! When we drop something on the floor, we look at each other in despair and wonder "Eeeeh, should you or I try to pick that up?". Today we did yoga and stretching instead of the programme we were supposed to do. But at least we are up and running again! How is the autumn exercise going for you? Any good tips to share?
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BP says:
Hahaha! Can I say that I absolutely love your "training pants":-) Remember my "active" time and always thought that training pain was the best pain in the world - kind of a proof of "productivity". That was then. Today I would feel like you do if I were at all capable of bending down, that is;-)
So you can see that I've done my bit on the exercise front. But I do take long walks, almost every day...
02 October 2015 - 20:38
Åsa says:
You look strong anyway, but I know how it feels when you have to do it again! I am training uphill as much as I can now for the race in Porto. It's slow and painful and heavy, but someone has to do it! 😉
02 October 2015 - 21:47
Anna, New York - My Bite of the Big Apple says:
Haha! Wonderfully described. However, I agree with the others: You look strong and well-trained!
I train all year round according to the same schedule, since ten years ago: Gym (strength and fitness) every second/third day and also fast walks of about 30 minutes every day. Have to go "all in" otherwise it doesn't work. Before I started my training life, it was a bit so-so with the regularity ... 😉.
If I'm travelling and there's no gym nearby, I tend to swim and go for extra walks instead (they certainly do in New York anyway).
I have not been on such long journeys as you have, so it is interesting to hear how you do it. Go for it! 🙂
02 October 2015 - 23:20
Ditte says:
Exercising when it's at its hottest doesn't sound very appealing other than swimming, diving and snorkelling. And I can understand that it will be to sit very still during transfers. But you have a good basic condition/strength that can be easily trained.
I wouldn't even visit a gym if I got paid. Don't like being cooped up. Maybe if it was large sums of money that I would receive for doing so, but doubtful. I walk every day about 10,000 steps and have a good basic condition and can take the opportunity to train arms and legs extra at the outdoor gyms here in the South.
Then I have a programme that my dad developed a long time ago that strengthens the whole body and I do it at home.
Skiing/skating in the winter, the daily exercise and being generally active has been good for me. Have just done a work test and tested how it relates and got good values, Ss I continue with what I think is fun in terms of movement. I have a good basic strength since childhood and adolescence, a gymnastics instructor training and feel that the body keeps up so I am satisfied. The daily exercise is good enough for me.
02 October 2015 - 23:42
Mr Steve says:
Just outfit. You still look like you're in great shape.
My autumn exercise consists of walks in the garden.
Goodbye!
02 October 2015 - 23:49
ActiveDays-Camilla says:
Sometimes I remind myself to think about
The feeling afterwards. Yes, maybe not the training pain then but the rest... 🙂 this week a fun programme began, Train with Kalle, the 6 episodes are on SVT play if you can access it... Seppo in the first programme had not counted on 30 years! So you can feel calm 🙂
03 October 2015 - 6:15
admin says:
BP, walks are of course good! The important thing is to keep going in some way and do it regularly 🙂 .
Åsa, it's good that we at least "look" strong, haha. Now that we started running our programme again, we felt really weak! 😉 Go, go on the training for the race!
Anna, New York, wow what a great routine you've got! Impressive! The best thing is always to get something that lasts in the long run, and that's the challenge. It sounds like you have succeeded!
Ditte, it sounds like you get good exercise in your daily life! The important thing is to find ways to exercise and train that you enjoy! It is only then that it lasts in the long run. Fun to hear how you get it! 🙂
Steve, hope you continue to have good autumn weather so you can be outside!
Camilla, it sounds like a fun programme actually! Wondering what it's like to start training after 30 years.......? Do not know if we can get SVT Play, but maybe we should check it out.
03 October 2015 - 7:58
solan says:
Well, who the heck can train in 30-35°? There must be some yoga here where the point is to train in such heat. Probably only for fanatics. You seem normal for the time of year...
03 October 2015 - 8:04
Lennart says:
It can be difficult to get started after a break, but after a while it's probably routine!
Keep up the good work!
03 October 2015 - 8:10
admin says:
Solan, I have also heard about that yoga that you do in a super hot room... it sounds like a migraine to me, haha 😉 No, we prefer to exercise now that the temperatures have dropped! (About 24 degrees in the middle of the day, and cooler in the morning, evening and night).
Lennart, we want to, but it's quite difficult to get into a routine when you're travelling around. Right now we are here for ten days and can train. Then there will be visits from friends (great fun!) and some sightseeing so then it will be a break again. Sometimes it is difficult to combine the training with what we want to do 😉.
03 October 2015 - 8:43
Ama de casa says:
Haha! Are you asking me for exercise tips? Well... walking. It's the only "exercise" I subject myself to. And with pleasure, actually. And about one week of skiing per year, so I do understand the difficulty of getting something off the floor. That one week a year shocks the body completely... 😀.
03 October 2015 - 9:32
Helga says:
I can imagine that the heat makes the training a bit too hard but now it's certainly a bit cooler... Well done!
03 October 2015 - 10:49
admin says:
Ama de casa, haha then you know what we mean! We feel like you usually do after your ski week right now 😉.
Helga, when it was 35 degrees I mostly tried NOT to move. Now the climate is much better for exercise (around 25 degrees in the middle of the day, but cooler in the evenings, nights and mornings).
03 October 2015 - 11:48
Role o Carina says:
Ha Ha, you look obscenely fit even though you travel so much!
And what great training clothes you have, you don't have to hide in a tent!
Take care and enjoy.........Kram
03 October 2015 - 16:26
steel city anna says:
It's so hard to get started! Did a week in the summer and it felt almost as hard just after that little break as when I had not had a gym card for several years. Not fitness as much as muscles strangely enough. Now I never dare to stop 🙂 cheering for you now! Good spirit that when you are free you have more time to cook healthy food.
03 October 2015 - 16:26