Holidays don’t have to be lazy
So I’m back from my holiday, refreshed and ready to go for another year. We had a fantastic time, we saw a lot of great things, spent many hours swimming and had loads of family bonding time with the little ones.
Now just because you are on holidays doesn’t mean you have to be lazy. In fact, I believe most of my clients were lazier than me over the last 2 weeks and I was the one on holidays! Hannah and I took alternate mornings to get our workouts in, so we each got a workout in every second day. Rain or shine!
The great thing about our location was that it was across the road from the beginning of Mooloolaba Beach. I enjoyed the 1.8km each direction run every workout. Every run I wore my shoes as I am in training for the next adventure race which is sure to involve beach running. I varied between soft sand running there and back. Ankle deep water running there and back. And probably my favourite was the day I ran all the way up the beach on the really soft sand and then I ran the whole 1.8km’s back in knee to thigh deep water. The locals looked at me like I was deranged, as I did have shoes on but I have never used my core so much whilst running. I could feel it burning whilst I tried to lift my legs out of the water with every stride. I highly recommend is for something different.
Every run was followed up with a short Crossfit workout either on the local pull up bars mixing various pull ups in with handstand push ups or down on the beach doing countdown workouts of squats, push ups etc incorporating out and in’s to the surf in between each set.
Look closely, Hannah snapped this one morning
At Byron bay, we put the kids in the sun tent and made the tent the base for the movement whilst the other person ran to a marker and back. It was a race for who got the most repetitions, so you had to move fast whether you were soft sand running or pushing, sitting, squatting etc.
The fact is, there is no excuse to be lazy, no matter where you are!
Not bad 12 weeks after baby No.2, you just gotta move!
Even bat'n'ball on the beach is movement
February 17th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
this sounds like the holiday from hell Troy! haha. but yeah, i visited my grandparents for a month overseas last year and brought all my exercise gear too! suprisingly i managed to get up and go for a run on some mornings. Didn’t end up pushing myself as much as i do in our classes but at least i was moving!