Most articles about travel workout equipment give you a ranked list of products. That is the wrong shape for this problem, because what you should pack depends entirely on where you are going. Here is the short version. If you are staying stateside with a car, pack almost nothing: one band, a small foam roller,…
The last trip where I did not train at all was in 2013. Not because I always find a good gym. Because there is almost always something, and after enough years on the road you stop treating “no gym” as an answer to anything. I have trained in a gym built out of a shed…
I once stayed somewhere with no kitchen and no refrigerator. I filled the garbage can with ice and kept my food in it for the week. That is the whole philosophy in one image. Healthy eating while traveling is not about finding ideal conditions, because you almost never get them. It is about being pragmatic…
I once trained in a Target parking lot halfway through a long drive. Pull ups off the bar across the middle of a car corral, push ups on the curb, dips off a bench, step ups onto the same bench, jogging laps between rounds. It took about 25 minutes and nobody said a word to…