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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: BayGBM on September 01, 2009, 06:51:03 AM
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You go out of town for a week or two on holiday. Do you plan ahead and find a local gym where you can train while you are away? Does the urge to train hit you while you are away and you make your way to the hotel fitness center or a nearby gym? Does your spouse think you are silly for training while on holiday? Or do you damn the work out for a week or two and enjoy your vacation? ???
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Anyone who cant relax for One fucking week is a tard
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I don't go on vacation
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Anyone who cant relax for One fucking week is a tard
exactly, get a life then.
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I always think I'm gonna do some kind of 'fitnessy' thing while on vacation, but when the stewardess comes around with my G&Ts I know I was just lying to myself. I can live with that. :)
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(http://kbierek.powweb.com/shapefit-pics/chest-exercises-pushups.gif)
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I don't train.
What I do though, is stretch each morning (sometimes in the evening too) and aim to do some light exercise (walking, swimming, a hike) each day. I also try to get a few massages in, and I eat pretty much whatever I want. I see vacations as a great time to recouperate, as when I am not vacationing, I am training real hard.
A related question to yours though, is for people on a cycle, do you modify it when on vacation.
PS - (and no gay jokes please), but I sometimes take a "broomstick" (wooden bar) with me. This is quite common for Olympic lifters to do, to practice lift motions as part of the stretching process and maintain flexibilty.
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being in a hotel room with wife and kid for 3-4 days straight can be stressful.
being able to spend 30 minutes goofing off on the hotel machines is nice.
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PS - (and no gay jokes please), but I sometimes take a "broomstick" (wooden bar) with me. This is quite common for Olympic lifters to do, to practice lift motions as part of the stretching process and maintain flexibilty.
Sounds like you love working with the "stick" there Gib.
sry couldn't help it ;D
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what you gonna lose when u miss a week of training, we dont grow anymore though lol
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If I'm on vacation I'm gonna be at the ocean swimming.thats enough for me.
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If I'm on vacation I'm gonna be at the ocean swimming.thats enough for me.
Excellent low impact stuff, Cal. Don't forget to stock up on the Solo Cups. ;D
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imagine there are geeks around who eat on their hollyday perfect flex bodybuilding meals too and dont drink alcohol, even in the plane they have packed their chicken into tuppeware boxes ::)
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what you gonna lose when u miss a week of training, we dont grow anymore though lol
your muscles
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imagine there are geeks around who eat on their hollyday perfect flex bodybuilding meals too and dont drink alcohol, even in the plane they have packed their chicken into tuppeware boxes ::)
For sure - a number of bodybuilders I know do that!
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your muscles
its more beneficial to miss a week of training then harmfull. how often i didnt came back of vacation and i had the pump back and felt stronger.
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NO ... I
prepare train for Vacations
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its more beneficial to miss a week of training then harmfull. how often i didnt came back of vacation and i had the pump back and felt stronger.
x2
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I travel a lot. I train when I travel.
It's not that I'm so afraid of losing muscle, as much as I like the release (of cortisol, stress, etc.)
I also like going to different gyms and hoping to meet a true Getbigger... ;D
So, I walk into a new gym and say: "Any Getbiggers in here?".. and when I hear a big "FUCK YOU!"- I feel right at home.
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Gayer than calling sandals, thongs.
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absolutely I train...even more because normally eating clean is off limits
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No.
I just train really hard before the holiday and use the time as a break.
But I'll still try eat healthy though.
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Yes, I do train... while on vacation.
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you wish. ;D ;D
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many, many curls
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you wish. ;D ;D
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Excellent low impact stuff, Cal. Don't forget to stock up on the Solo Cups. ;D
Drinks melt to fast.I use one of those covered ones :)
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being in a hotel room with wife and kid for 3-4 days straight can be stressful.
being able to spend 30 minutes goofing off on the hotel ice machines is nice.
fixed it for you stud.
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I have trained while on vacation and other times I haven't....depends on where I am and what I'm doing there. Went on a cruise for a week on February...I trained every morning. The gym was crap, but I enjoyed it still. Going to train can sometimes be relaxing if it's all I have to think about at that moment in time.
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I have trained while on vacation and other times I haven't....depends on where I am and what I'm doing there. Went on a cruise for a week on February...I trained every morning. The gym was crap, but I enjoyed it still. Going to train can sometimes be relaxing if it's all I have to think about at that moment in time.
do you ever think about me while you look out into the sunset on the ocean, stud?
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do you ever think about me while you look out into the sunset on the ocean, stud?
I think about your balls and moan while sipping a vanilla milkshake.
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In Bar Harbor I averaged 3 hrs a day on a bike and an hour in the gym. Cycling with the old man on the trails up there was fun though, despite the gradients.
The YMCA gym in Bar Harbor is a distillation of every "Oh brother!" story ever told on Getbig. Throughout the week I saw:
-The Disappearing Squatter who only came running back 10 mins later when someone was unloading 'his' bar. He made a stink about it with the girl who wanted the rack and refused to work in with her before cranking out 4 more quarter reps and wandering off again.
-Legions of 140lb ego lifters shaking one up before failing on the second rep.
-A shadow boxer.
-Several 15 year old mean muggers and stone faced warriors.
-A complete lardass, about 45, who did nothing but various curls while staring in the mirror and grunting on every single rep for 3/4 of an hour. He finished off with 'body curls' where he basically heaved the cable up with his entire body and then just let it slam back down as fast as gravity wanted it. Even at the end when you would think he'd have a pump, there was no discernable bicep muscle at all. He wore a weight belt with the overhanging gut and this guy's ILS was not to be believed.
-Full body tricep pushdowns all over the place.
-The woodchoppng exercise.
I always wondered if US gyms were really as bad as Getbiggers made out, but not a trip to the Y went by up there without having to stifle my laughter. It was like lifting in a Sarcasm thread.
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no, i will locate a pool and swim
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I walked true the mountains of the Himalaya in Nepal, great cardio.
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Vacations are for beaches, bitches and booze. Not gyms.
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I do.
If I dont train, I start to feel depressed.
I usually stay in 4 or 5 star hotels.
(my wife insists on 4star minimum) I dont mind 3stars.
Some of them have semi decent gyms like
this hotel:
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You go out of town for a week or two on holiday. Do you plan ahead and find a local gym where you can train while you are away? Does the urge to train hit you while you are away and you make your way to the hotel fitness center or a nearby gym? Does your spouse think you are silly for training while on holiday? Or do you damn the work out for a week or two and enjoy your vacation? ???
Fuck no I don't train. To me, that's the whole point of a vacation.
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I don't go anywhere without my gym stuff. I guess the reason is I don't consider working out a chore or something I'm forced to do just so I can stay in shape. I enjoy going to the gym. It's my favorite pastime. I'm gonna train no matter where I go. Actually, I enjoy going on vacation and being able to workout in really nice facilities wherever I go. I've been in some amazing gyms while on vacation. Planning on going to Pattaya, Thailand in Oct. and I've already scouted out several gyms to train at while I'm there. I'm really looking forward to it.
Pat
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I don't go anywhere without my gym stuff. I guess the reason is I don't consider working out a chore or something I'm forced to do just so I can stay in shape. I enjoy going to the gym. It's my favorite pastime. I'm gonna train no matter where I go. Actually, I enjoy going on vacation and being able to workout in really nice facilities wherever I go. I've been in some amazing gyms while on vacation. Planning on going to Pattaya, Thailand in Oct. and I've already scouted out several gyms to train at while I'm there. I'm really looking forward to it.
Pat
Great post, thats the spirit.
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Great post, thats the spirit.
Thanks,
I have a vacation home in Sri Lanka and I make sure I even train when I'm vacationing there. The gym I went to the last two visits has no AC, it's as humid as you can ever imagine and you're drenched in sweat before you even get up the stairs to the gym. Even with all that, I enjoyed getting my training in. Check out this pic.