Travel and Fitness!

 It was a hot one in L.A. during the last week of July this year.  I drove me and my son down to Alhambra to spend a week with my 95 year old grandmother who lives alone.  She has lived in the same house for over 70 years, she even told me she paid $3,500.00 for it... Crazy!
Anyway, knowing I would be down there for a week presented me with the fitness opportunity that I teach to so many of my clients... Train while you travel.  Gathering the equipment I could fit into my suitcase, and trunk of the car came rather easy.  I brought two mats, a pair of perfect push ups, resistance bands, a pair of gliding discs, a jump rope, and the most valuable piece of training gear, my bag of sticks!

Sticks is a workout I surprise my clients with randomly, and they always respond with the same dreaded sigh... Because they know that the sticks unveil their fitness fate with each pull out of the bag.
My training plan for the week was to complete each stick in the bag.  Usually when you pick a stick you put it back in the bag, and it can only be repeated two more times, and not twice in a row (stick fitness rules), however my plan was to not put any
sticks back in the bag and try to empty the whole bag by Friday.
Well... I didn't realize how many darn sticks I had created over
the past few years, and only completed 98 sticks, with 42 more
remaining.  I trained with the sticks 4 days with a 20min. warm-
up of jumping rope.
The environment of my grandmas garage was the rawest  gym
I have ever trained in, besides the outdoors.  I honestly felt
like a bad ass, lol; sweating my butt of in 88 degree temps
with more humidity in a day then we get all year up here in Reno, NV.
After my first workout, I went in the house and my grandma tells me that she wants to come out tomorrow and watch me.  I replied, "really?".  She said, "well, naturally, I want to see what it is you do".  She is so darn cute, and I Lo her so much.
Her watching me train, turned into her pulling my fitness fate with each stick; it was awesome!!!
The garage has been completely cleaned out since my grandpa passed away15 years ago, and the only things that remain are the washing machine (no dryer, yes I lined dried all the laundry and me and my son really enjoyed that), the old radio (pictured below), and a few yard tools.  It was muggy, dusty and dark; and I killed those workouts!
I have done my stick workouts before, yet it had been a long time; and doing so, gave me a clearer understanding for what I put my clients through:).

I was amazed how good of a workout I got using minimal equipment.  This just reiterated to myself that you don't need a lot to get a good workout done!!!


      No Excuses Right?  Because that is the only thing getting in our way... Our self.

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