So, you\u2019re going on vacation and are stoked about the mental and physical break from the gym.<\/p>\n
But you also know an entire week of drinking and a lax diet, all the while not getting your heart rate up or doing a single push-up for a week, is only going to make you feel emotionally low during the days on vacation\u2014days that you\u2019re supposed to be enjoying!<\/p>\n
So, you\u2019re going on vacation and are stoked about the mental and physical break from the gym.<\/p>\n
But you also know an entire week of drinking and a lax diet, all the while not getting your heart rate up or doing a single push-up for a week, is only going to make you feel emotionally low during the days on vacation\u2014days that you\u2019re supposed to be enjoying!<\/p>\n
And that low, depressed feeling is often just magnified when you return home feeling guilty for all you ate and drank while you struggle to find the motivation to return to your normal life.<\/p>\n
While this certainly isn\u2019t how everyone feels when they take a week off, it\u2019s usually what happens to me if I do nothing physical for a whole week. And many of my clients have reported the same experience.<\/p>\n
Thus, I have discovered over the years it\u2019s better for my mind to do some kind of fitness on vacation\u2014not necessarily everyday\u2014but some days<\/strong>. And I\u2019m not talking about walking or hiking. As a one hike per vacation kind of person, there\u2019s only so much of that I can tolerate.<\/p>\n My solution: Devote just 20-30 minutes maximum in the morning when I first wake up to some kind of fitness.<\/p>\n Here are the keys to making this work for you:<\/p>\n What does this look like in practice?<\/p>\n Recently, I was in the Okanagan\u2014beautiful wine country in British Columbia\u2014so amidst live CrossFit Games streaming, BBQ-ing, going on wine tours, and tasting delicious reds, whites, and bubbies, I ensured I took the time first thing in the morning to hit the backyard and get a sweat on. It made all the difference.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re looking for ideas for some balanced bodyweight training you can do anywhere (i.e. you don\u2019t do tabata burpees every single day for a week), here are five days of backyard workouts I did that include some conditioning, some strength work, some core work<\/a>, and some light accessory-type work.<\/p>\n After a consistent dynamic warm-up that I kept the same each day (check out the video below for my simple five minutes of warm-up), I did the following workouts for the seven days of my vacation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n