Im wondering about meal timings and getting away from the family to fit in a workout, anyone have any ideas for working the muscles while seated rounded the dinner table?Seated calf raises with your hot cousin on your lap?Arm wrestling with the skinny fat uncle who after seeing your rippling guns, tells stories of benching 550 in his prime?
As far as meals go, I'll be eating at a relative's house later with many family members. They are having ham and
fried turkey, along with a bunch of other junk containing far too much fat, sugar, sodium, etc. So needless to say, I'll be bringing my own meals in my trusty cooler - baked turkey, grilled chicken and flank steak, brown rice, yams, broccoli, etc. Since I'll be there about half a day, I'll prepack at least 3 of these meals, along with a couple of mrp shakes in case traffic is bad or I otherwise get held up listening to boring family stories and anecdotes, looking at old pictures for the hundredth time, or whatever.
Regarding training, I always make it a point to avoid any physical activity outside of the gym. I don't arm wrestle - what if I tore a bicep or strained something? I could be out of the gym for days, weeks, or longer. The risk is not worth it. Even if I didn't get injured, the physical and mental stress of such a pointless undertaking could cause me to briefly go into a catabolic state, and would likely interfere with training intensity for a day or two as well.
