November 17, 2025 Workout of the Day

11/17/2025 Workout of the Day

Legs

Warm up: frog situps x 3x20; lateral raises x 3x15

Ex 1: Bulgarian split squat-3x10/10

Ex 2: seated hamstring curls-3x15-20

Ex 3: box step ups-3x10/10

Ex 4: calf raise-3x15

Total Time = 32 minutes 

Nice leg pump with mí amigo while on vacation.

Travel tends to negatively affect the way I feel while training during the first couple days in a new place. I typically follow a pretty regimented, consistent daily schedule and on vacation that's thrown off a bit. Different foods, more sitting around, sleeping in a different bed, long days sitting in planes, etc. 

I'm also usually visiting with family or friends during the normal waking hours while I'm out of town, which means my training needs to be done early in the morning – which isn't my typical ideal time to train. 

I always feel better each day that inculdes training though, even if initially I'm more stiff, sluggish, or whatever compared to normal, non-vacation days. 

I also train as I usually would, regardless. If there's no gym, I enjoy the challenge, simplicity, and creativity of bodyweight only workouts while following the same split as whatever I'm currently doing. 

Where I'm currently staying actually has a pretty nice gym, so I didn't really need to change anything. No kettlebells so I used  dumbbells – I find the 2 interchangeable anyway. 

I did swap single leg RDLs for seated hamstring curls today because I figured it'd be less fatiguing and a bit easier on my body since I was stiff and tighter than usual due to sleeping on a softer mattress than I'm accustomed to sleeping on and training earlier in the morning than my normal.

Everything else was pretty standard and I was pleased with the workout.

Tomorrow I'll get up early and do a pull session. I might have to get a little creative with my row variation tomorrow since the heaviest dumbbell is 30 pounds lighter than what I usually do single arm rows with. Maybe I'll use the smith machine bar for inverted rows? Maybe the gym has a seated machine row that I'll use instead. I'll let you know tomorrow.

As always, I begin each morning with at least 1 round of 10 Hindu squats, 10 glute bridges (pausing and squeezing 5 seconds at the top of each rep), and 10 pushups.

Train hard and, no matter the situation, get your training completed. Sometimes you've just got to check the box, and you know what? That's alright, too.

Talk soon.