Re: travel food and exercise

[Guest guest]

Recently when we traveled I packed:

turkey sandwiches on whole wheat

1T natural peanut butter on ww bagel

fruit!

baby carrots

WATER!

Myoplex lite bars (which I hardly ever eat but work good when on the

go)

Ready to Drink shakes (i suggest myoplex)

> We are driving to Washington on vacation and I need some ideas for

exercises and food without the high sodium content. Aren't the bands

good for exercising when you are on the road ? I would like some food

to keep in the cooler so we can save money on the road because there

is 6 of us.

>

> Any advice would be appreciated,

>

> Cheryl

> KCMO

>

>

[Guest guest]

Recently when we traveled I packed:

turkey sandwiches on whole wheat

1T natural peanut butter on ww bagel

fruit!

baby carrots

WATER!

Myoplex lite bars (which I hardly ever eat but work good when on the

go)

Ready to Drink shakes (i suggest myoplex)

> We are driving to Washington on vacation and I need some ideas for

exercises and food without the high sodium content. Aren't the bands

good for exercising when you are on the road ? I would like some food

to keep in the cooler so we can save money on the road because there

is 6 of us.

>

> Any advice would be appreciated,

>

> Cheryl

> KCMO

>

>

[Guest guest]

You can always make your own MRBs. Take cottage cheese and fruit,

tuna and beans (I like garbanzos with tuna), etc.

There are plenty of exercises you can do. Cardio can be running,

jumping jacks, jumping rope. The bands are good to take for some

resistance. You can also use jugs of water as weights.

HTH,

Jen

> We are driving to Washington on vacation and I need some ideas for

exercises and food without the high sodium content. Aren't the bands

good for exercising when you are on the road ? I would like some food

to keep in the cooler so we can save money on the road because there

is 6 of us.

>

> Any advice would be appreciated,

>

> Cheryl

> KCMO

>

>

[Guest guest]

hey Seattle Lady ,

you will have to tell us all about the exersizes in that book when

you get it

It sounds interesting

Anjil

>

> Seattle Lady <seattle_lady2003@y...> wrote:

> Push-ups, jumping rope, resistance bands, tricep dips, jugs of

water or

> canned food or small children for weight-lifting, ab work on the

floor,

> etc.

>

> You may or may not get the same kind of intense workout you're

used to

> at home, but there's a lot you can do to keep physically active and

> challenge your muscles. Traveling does not mean you have to be a

couch

> potato!

>

> I'm on the waitlist to get this book from the library:

>

> http://www.dragondoor.com/b28.html

>

[Guest guest]

Get a little cooler or insulated lunchbox with one of those blue ice thingies.

In addition to shakes and bars, drag along stuff like cottage cheese, yogurt,

tuna pouches, canned chicken, apples, grapes, whole wheat crackers, dried

apricots, low fat string cheese, hard boiled eggs, maybe even some sliced deli

turkey. Also, some celery and carrot sticks.

There are a ton of bodyweight exercise you can do - push-ups, bench dips,

squats, lunges, pull-ups. You can also buy some resistance tubes or bands and

put them in your suitcase. Also, look for anything heavy in your surroundings

that you could hoist around - milk jugs, rocks, children. You can still get a

killer resistance workout with no weights. You just have to be a little

creative. If I were trapped in a hotel with no equipment I would do:

push-ups (all variations, wide for chest, narrow for triceps, decline with your

feet up on something)

pull-ups (if I could find a playground with a jungle gym)

bench dips (sit on the edge of a chair or bench, grab it with your hands, drop

your butt toward the floor and raise yourself back up. It's easier if you bend

your knees and keep your feet flat, harder if you straighten your legs and put

your weight on your heels or up on something the same height as your bench)

walking lunges (back and forth across the room)

hover squats (squat and hold it for 5 sec at the bottom)

plie (wide) squats (toes out like a ballerina, clobbers your inner thigh)

hip abductions (hold onto a door frame or counter, stand up straight, keeping

your leg straight, raise it out to the side 15-20 times, switch sides)

hip extensions (hold onto something, stand up straight, keeping your leg

straight, take it straight back, you only need to raise it a foot or two to

really feel it in your glutes)

Do the extensions and abductions slooooowly and squeeze at the top to really

make it burn.

calf raises (just hang onto something and raise yourself up and down)

wall sit (slide down a wall and sit in an invisible chair, thighs parallel to

the floor, knees aligned above ankles, hold it as long as you can)

It sounds tame, but if you're not used to the exercises or the high repetitions,

it will set your little muscle fibers on fire. You can do it a number of ways.

Like just do as many reps as you can of each exercise, rest a minute or two, do

the next exercise. OR, you could do say 20 reps, next exercise, 20 reps, next

exercise. No rest between the sets and you could repeat the circuit a couple of

times. That would keep your heart rate up and give you a little cardio benefit

as well.

travel food and exercise

We are driving to Washington on vacation and I need some ideas for exercises

and food without the high sodium content. Aren't the bands good for exercising

when you are on the road ? I would like some food to keep in the cooler so we

can save money on the road because there is 6 of us.

Any advice would be appreciated,

Cheryl

KCMO