Working Out Far From Home in a Confined Area

Hey Guys--


Hannah B. is apparently not fluent in blogger German and asked us to post this.  It's obviously awesome.  Read it below.  


It features a Zuzana reference, who you should be all too familiar with because I constantly reference her... and her video is in another post below this.  


p*killah
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Greetings from Germany! Being abroad and traveling and all that has made my sisters and I super motivated to work out (ya know, eating every meal out, desserts, car trips, Christmas markets ugghhhh i hate it but i donttt) and so we've been trying to develop some workouts that can be done in a relatively short amount of time in a relatively constrained area, ie hotel rooms. I figured these might be good things to post on the blog for people who are in the same position aka away from home/tennis shoes, etc! The idea is a basic, fairly simple workout structured around differing exercises. Most of these exercises are taken from past softball conditioning and/or adapted from http://www.bodyrock.tv/category/daily-workouts/all-workouts/ -- a site designed by Zuzana, this crazy super-hot eastern european fitness model who basically just kicks your ass and attempts to get you looking like her...which if you look at her pictures is motivation enough, not to add fit frisbee points to the bonus! Not going to lie some of those shots of her doing squats DEFINITELY border on pornographic but HEY WHATEVER GETS YOU MOTIVATED. Anyways, I've tried to describe the basic idea of the workout below, and if you're curious and/or want to have washboard abs and an ass like iron, check out the website!!

THE WORKOUT
All of these workouts follow a basic timing structure -- 5 exercises for 50 seconds each, with 10 seconds rest in between each exercise, and all of that repeated 3 times for a total of 15 minutes. I always do a bit of cardio beforehand (running up and down the hotel stairs twice or something) and stretching afterwards, taking a total of about 23 minutes, and all totally possible within the hotel or house closest to you!

*The great part about this workout is that you can mix and match exercises to suit your fancy! Just make sure you get a good mix of abs/arms/legs, but that's fairly easy as Zuzana is really good about beating you into shape.

Exercise options!
Exercise 1 - Sumo squats. Squat, then shift your weight left and being your right leg up to your chest, so you look kind of like a kickboxer. Bring that leg back down, squat, then repeat with your left leg.
Exercise 2 - Kamikaze. Start in plank position, up on your hands. Swoop down, as if you were going into cobra position in yoga, but don't let your legs touch the ground. Then push yourself back up. More of the same.
Exercise 3 - Split jump lunges. Do a lunge, then instead of just putting the other foot in front of the last one, jump into that position. Repeat with both legs.
Exercise 4 - V-ups. We all know what these are. Yeah, they suck.
Exercise 5 - Plank position, hands on the ground. Alternate lifting each leg up, while keeping your back flat.
Exercise 6 - Burpees! Add a pushup, for those overachievers out there.
Exercise 7 - Intense pushups. Get in push up position, do one, then move both your hands to the right, pivoting on your feet so it's an ab workout. Do a pushup, and then go back to the original spot and repeat.
Exercise 8 - Sleeping crab. Get in crab position, then alternate lifting your left hand/right leg and then right hand/left leg up. Go as fast as you can!
*Also, feel free to add any exercises to the list that you want! Just make sure you can do them all out of 50 seconds, so you break a sweat.
FYI, all of her other exercises are here: http://www.bodyrock.tv/category/daily-workouts/all-exercises/

So, your workout should look like:
Exercise 1 - 50 seconds, 10 seconds rest
Exercise 2 - 50 seconds, 10 seconds rest
Exercise 3 - 50 seconds, 10 seconds rest
Exercise 4 - 50 seconds, 10 seconds rest
Exercise 5 - 50 seconds, 10 seconds rest

If this (http://miyoparker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/zuzana-bodyrock1.jpg) isn't inspiration, then this (http://fiveultimate.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/georgia.jpg) should be!!!

Love and sore legs,
Hannah B