Maintaining muscle mass without a gym
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A lot of the local parks now have activity centres installed - so you run around the edge of the park and there is a chinup bar, dip rack, horizontal ladder, etc.
Find one of those and you're set like a jelly.
Oh and sprints - wish I could do sprints
but do a few 25/50/100m sprints on the local oval and you'll be fine. Better than jogging. -
Plenty of videos about urban workouts. Double ups are god for the upper body!
@MN5 Steep hill sprints or stair bounds are brilliant for generating power and leg speed. Big fan of those.
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lots of good ideas here already. Check out some youtube vids on training outside of the gym too, there will be a heap of good stuff. If you can find parks/playgrounds with gear like NTA was talking about you'll be sweet as I reckon. Those set ups are primo!
If you can pick up a cheap set of dumbbells or KB's around 14-20kg or so there are heaps of things you could do.
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@antipodean said in Maintaining muscle mass without a gym:
Plenty of videos about urban workouts. Double ups are god for the upper body!
@MN5 Steep hill sprints or stair bounds are brilliant for generating power and leg speed. Big fan of those.
I tried 10 sets of (42) stairs at the local train station this afternoon. First time trying something like that, Completely buggered afterwards. I guess I know why Titch did not call me up for the Olympics.
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@antipodean said in Maintaining muscle mass without a gym:
Plenty of videos about urban workouts. Double ups are god for the upper body!
@MN5 Steep hill sprints or stair bounds are brilliant for generating power and leg speed. Big fan of those.
I'm pretty bottom heavy so find a lot of that shit comes naturally to me and I enjoy it far more than other leg exercises.
Also throw in broad jumps, those are great value.
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I had a ~3km route I used as a speed session and about two thirds of the route was a steep hill about 50m long. If I wasn't making good time I'd do repetitions on the hill which made the last 800m home hellish.
Repetitions makes it sound special - after about six I was done.
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Some good tips, cheers!
Rocky, good to hear that the pressup placement works well, the chinup bar I have has a few different hand holds for that purpose also noticed there are some pressup boards at the gym now.
Parks/playgrounds seem like a great idea, but can be a little frowned upon when kids are playing. From memory they were even discussing a law in London a few years back about preventing unaccompanied men from being allowed on childrens playgrounds, not sure how far it got though.
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I presume you have a suitcase or bag. Fill it up with heavy stuff and use it for rows and curls.
