As you might have noticed, my posts have been much less frequent over the last week or so and for good reason. I’m on vacation. I’m in sunny, rainy Orlando taking a much needed vacation with the family. Yesterday we did something that my wife and kids have wanted to do for many, many years… swim with the dolphins. I had a lot of fun, but what brought me the most joy was just watching how much my girls enjoyed it and how appreciative they were. There’s something to be said for seeing the look of pure, innocent bliss on your child’s face. Priceless.

When I’m on vacation I usually arrange it so that it’s an “off” week from my workouts, or I stick to only three full body workouts for the week, foregoing the ab workouts I do on alternate days and include a couple of ab movements as part of my full body workout.

During this vacation I’m sticking to performing three full body workouts for the week. That usually works out great for me as I can get them done in 15 minutes when I wake up in the morning and be done before anyone else is awake. I’ve also found that even though I’m working out less often (or not at all) during vacation, I always tend to lose weight. That is probably because I’m much more active, doing alot of walking and other activities that I normally don’t do since I sit behind a desk for most of the day.

For the record, I really don’t like hotel gyms and there are a multitude of reasons (small, crowded, usually smelly, restrictive hours, not enough equipment, expensive etc). When on vacation I’ll either workout in my room or outdoors. I always perform body weight exercises or bring bands along with me and use them.

Here’s the workout I did this morning. Using 20-10 intervals, I performed the following exercises. After each 8 exericse round I rested 2-3 minutes and repeated the round two more times.

Exercise 1: Prisoner squats
Exercise 2: Pushups with feet elevated on the bed
Exercise 3: Lunge jumps
Exercise 4: Wide gripped pushups
Exercise 5: Prisoner squats
Exercise 6: Advanced burpees
Exercise 7 & 8: I use these 60 seconds to do a plank movement with no rest.

Final Results
One more thing for those of you who have been wondering about the results of my “21 Day of Gut Check: Fat Loss”, I ended up losing 11 pounds of fat in 20 days. Not too bad considering I was fairly lean to begin with, but above my normal ”everyday weight” of 181-185 pounds. I started at 190 pounds and ended at 179. The results may not sound as good as some of the hype you hear in those infomercials, but by following the guidelines and premise of my BusyBod Workouts for Fat Loss I was able to do it by eating clean and spending about only 15 minutes a day, six days a week working out.

That’s a total of 1.5 hours a week. Not too shabby and not too much time to give up for those types of results. Who says you don’t have time to exercise or need to workout for hours a week to see a difference? Don’t believe the hype.

OK…the kids just woke up, so I have to go, but I’d love to hear if you exercise while you’re away and what your preferred type of exercise consists of.

Thanks for sticking with me through these 21 days of “Gut Check Fat Loss”. As a parting note, I’d like to remind you that for optimal results to NOT be fooled by these five fat loss “buy levitra vardenafil target=”_blank”>food importers“!

Have a great day!

Your friend,

George

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  • http://www.fitbusypeople.com/2010/03/23/days-16-thru-20-of-gut-check-fat-loss-two-new-workouts/ Days 16 thru 20 of "Gut Check: Fat Loss": Two New Workouts | Fit & Busy People

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