“Back” From Cuba
My head hit the pillow back from Cuba this past Saturday at 3:00am.
Pretty exhausted and glad to be in my own bed once again.
The trip was great, no injuries (expect my nose literally exploding while scuba diving…that’s another story) and ate fairly well considering.
Anyone who has been to Cuba knows what I am talking about.
You find 5-7 things you like, stick with them and hope you don’t get sick.
made it out for a couple of workouts and they were fantastic. Short, intense and very effective.
When you travel don’t set yourself up to fail and try to maintain the same workout program. Who are we kidding, you sleep in an extra 2 hours at least, you’re up late drinking rum and beer and the sun takes all your energy.
Keep it simple and quick without trying to make gains.
One of my travelling buddies and I started with a jog on the beach to a catamaran on the beach that looked like a km away. Ended up being 2…it’s hard to tell distance down a beach like that.
Then we hit the gym.
He asked “OK what are we going to do for back? There is nothing here.”
I pointed to a bar overhead between the cable pulleys and said that we were going to do chinups and nothing else.
He can only do about 8 so when I said you are going to do 60 he thought I was joking.
After about 30 minutes he got them all in by chipping away at them 3-5 at a time and we called it a day. I did a few myself as well.
He thought we should maybe do some more and I convinced him that it was enough.
Needless to say for someone that does not do Chinups regularly he was hurting.
Couldn’t straighten his arms for 3 days, back was sore until the day we left and his abs were killing the next day as well, which really surprised him.
He is putting Chinups into his routine now.
Keep it simple and you’ll be successful even when you’re supposed to be lazing around on a beach somewhere.
