Adapting Your Fitness Plan While Traveling

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Introduction and Travel Context

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Hello and welcome back to another episode of Train for a Great Life. You might hear some street noise. I am walking through Midtown Little Rock, Arkansas at the moment. Just finished up a mastermind meetup with a group called the Tactical Empire.

Struggling with Workout Plans

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This is gonna be about working out on vac vacation. Working out while traveling. And something that I struggled with actually this time, and I'm just gonna talk through it. So I left on Wednesday, the whatever it is, it's the 27th today on Saturday, so a little earlier in the week. I worked out Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday was a basically a full travel day. I hung out with um the boys in lace in the morning. I could have worked out in the morning, but I just didn't want to be rushed. Uh so I decided not to. Thinking, okay, I've got some time, I'll get a couple of runs in while I'm in Little Rock. So Wednesday was more or less a full travel day. It's not easy to get to Little Rock. I had to go, I I chose to go Buffalo through Washington, DC, and then to Little Rock. Uh so Wednesday didn't work out.

Safety Concerns While Running

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Thursday morning. I woke up early before the event started, and the plan I was gonna go for um well, I was gonna do I think what my watch told me to do, but that changed when I woke up and I checked it, it it changed, and I just wasn't prepared. It was like a harder tempo run, and I just mentally I was like, I thought I was gonna be doing something else. That kind of threw me off, and then I was like, you know what, just start. You're fine. And I got out running. Well, actually, I didn't start running right away. I didn't quite know where I was. I looked at the map, and there was like this park area, you know, maybe a kilometer and a half away with a zoo. It looked, it just looked like there might be some some roads or trails that were good and out of the way and not you know highway and suburb and stuff like that. And so I got my bearings and then I started running, and I came across a couple of homeless guys sleeping very early, and it just it kind of irked me a little bit. Um, if I'm I'm I'm not lying, uh with where I was headed. I don't know the area. I and so anyway, I was like, you know what, I don't need to do this right now, and I turned around. Um and I didn't get my run-in. So back to the hotel, full day, you know, sort of in um sort of like I don't know, whatever you call like classroom setting, learning, um, and then events, dinner, whatever. The next day we had some planned activity, so we did like a two-hour hike with uh a pretty decent climb in the middle. Um, that still doesn't replace a run for me. Um it some of the guys got got hammered by it pretty good. I didn't find it too bad. Um and I was still sort of left without my run on the Friday as well. So now I haven't worked out Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. Uh it is now Saturday, and I got up early, went for a walk, found a coffee, and just kind of walking through in my mind like what am I gonna do? Because I sometimes it's hard to find like a good running path, route, whatever, in in a spot that you're very unfamiliar with. Um, you know, that

Finding Solutions Instead of Problems

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maybe it's just excuses in my head, whatever. But um, you know, I was like, you know what, just don't make it hard. Go for like an easy 20 to 30 minute run. Well, on the walk that I'm on right now, like this is not a flat town. There's a lot of rolling hills, and and you know, that started to impede my thinking too. I'm like, oh well, it's not necessarily gonna be an easy run. You know, what what about these hills? What if I run into an and then I just thought to myself, okay, what if you just actually work with what you have? There's a pretty good hill out behind my hotel. What if I just do hill repeats instead? Right? So I I kind of went from this looking for a problem to the solution, you know. I can't do this, I can't do this. What if it's not great here? Um, what if I run into an area that I don't love? Um, in terms of safety-wise, and then just completely pivoted to finding a solution for the problem. I can still get something in, and it's gonna keep me closer by. I know exactly where I'm gonna be, warm up a little bit, sprint up the hill a bunch of times, walk back down. Great workout. Um, so anyway, I struggle with this shit too. Okay, um, today is gonna be a travel day. You know, that would, if I don't do anything, which I haven't done it yet, but I'm gonna that's Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday without doing something.

Mental Impact of Missed Workouts

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That's that's just not me. That's not, I don't feel great doing that. My mind doesn't feel great doing that. Okay, so it can be challenging to schedule these things in. It's even more challenging when you're in an unfamiliar town and you sort of have this like flexible but busy schedule, like, kind of like home. Schedule it in, get it done. See you in the gym.