Business Trip Hotel Room Fat Loss Workout

Do you have to travel often and find it difficult to fit in quality workouts?  Here's a bodyweight workout I recently did from my hotel room.  It uses nothing but bodyweight exercises and only takes about 10 minutes.  Give this hotel room workout a try today!

by Ed Scow, NSCA-CPT (aka The Fit Dad) - Fitness and Nutrition Expert to the true superheroes - busy Moms and Dads! and Author of Fat Loss To Go

I get to travel quite a bit and recently learned two very valuable lessons.

The first thing I learned was that there are a lot of refugees from Somalia in Toronto. My cab driver to the hotel was from Somalia and when I asked about his homeland he didn't seem too eager to talk about it.

I took the hint.

The next thing I learned is that when doing your bodyweight workout in your hotel room in the morning you should catch your breath before answering the door to tell housekeeping to go away.

I was near the end of my workout when I got the knock and ran to answer the door to tell her to go away...and I was panting.

She looked at me kind of funny and said she'd come back later.

So that's where this article has taken me. Hotel room fat loss workouts.

My workout only took me about 15 minutes to complete, included nothing but bodyweight exercises, and as the housekeeper found out, left me breathless.

So here's what I did, and you should try too the next time you find yourself in a hotel but not wanting to head down to the workout facility, if they even have one.

I did a quick warm-up consisting of jumping jacks and squats. I did 3 sets of 40/10 with little to no rest between sets.

I then did 3 sets of the following supersets, and didn't rest at all between any of the exercises:

1A) Push-up w/Hand Raise - 12 per hand
1B) 1-Leg Hip Extension - 15 reps per leg

2A) Pike Push-up - 15 reps
2B) Reverse Lunge - 15 reps per leg

3A) "T" Push-up - 16 reps
3B) Overhead Squats - 20 reps

After that bodyweight workout, I had a pretty good sweat worked up.

You could even give that workout a try right now.  It doesn't matter where you're at because that workout doesn't take any equipment, just your bodyweight. 

Do it first thing in the morning before anything else gets in the way and pushes the workout the back burner.