Perseverance
At least when it comes to the fitness component, perseverance is required.
When my wife and I were on our 5-week road and RV trip, I did not bring an exercise mat and did not have access to a gym. For the most part, my weight training routine of any sort became non-existent for this period. I did manage to fit planking when there was a picnic table to use on the RV portion of the trip but that was far and few between. It was a little easier for strap training.
When I got "home" to my equipment 3 weeks ago, I would say I was getting out of shape. 12 press ups was difficult, as was 2 sets. By persevering on daily basis, it took over 2 weeks before the 12 pushups were getting easy and I could get up to 14, 15 and for the past couple of days, 16. In the past week, I've also increased my sets up to 3 then 4 from 2.
Advice: Keep working at it incrementally, it gets easier as your muscles get used to it. Same with the crunch routine I started 2 years ago. 1 set of 10-12 proved difficult at first but after a few weeks 3 sets of 30 or more became routine.
When my wife and I were on our 5-week road and RV trip, I did not bring an exercise mat and did not have access to a gym. For the most part, my weight training routine of any sort became non-existent for this period. I did manage to fit planking when there was a picnic table to use on the RV portion of the trip but that was far and few between. It was a little easier for strap training.
When I got "home" to my equipment 3 weeks ago, I would say I was getting out of shape. 12 press ups was difficult, as was 2 sets. By persevering on daily basis, it took over 2 weeks before the 12 pushups were getting easy and I could get up to 14, 15 and for the past couple of days, 16. In the past week, I've also increased my sets up to 3 then 4 from 2.
Advice: Keep working at it incrementally, it gets easier as your muscles get used to it. Same with the crunch routine I started 2 years ago. 1 set of 10-12 proved difficult at first but after a few weeks 3 sets of 30 or more became routine.
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