Looking forward to the June issue. Lindsay even got buried in the snow in Park City this winter!

I'm defiantly looking forward to this one. I'm heading off for a year plus round the world trip in the fall, starting in Australia and I'm interested in hearing people’s workout strategies.

I travel quite a bit as well...34 flights since January according to my frequent flier account, as well as several trips within driving distance. Though I suspect I'm not ending up in quite the remote areas that Lindsay is. Regardless, some things that have helped me:

1. Set the expectation at work (boss, etc.) that you will be working out...that you expect personal time. My boss is possibly the greatest guy on the planet, because he understands that staying fit is important to me. I think a lot of employers assume that a work trip means you'll happily work 18 hour days since you're not home and "have nothing else to do". Make sure they are disabused of that notion (nicely).
2. Do your homework about where you're going. I always search www.healthclubs.com (they've got a pretty good gym locator) and digitalcity to find gyms close to wherever I'm staying. Also, be sure to call the hotels near gyms (and/or the gyms themselves)...often you'll find that they have negotiated reduced price/free passes to a local gym. You're not stuck with the 6x9 room that passes for a "gym" at the hotel.
3. If you're cursed with a membership at GloboGym (like me)...this is where that finally pays off. Many big gyms are members of IHRSA...and if you ask you can get a card that will get you free/reduced price guest fees at gyms where you're going. If you forget, just be sure to keep your membership card with you...most IHRSA gyms also have directories and can look up your gym to see that it is an IHRSA facility.
4. Take your running shoes, a jump rope, etc. with you. Write down a couple of bodyweight-only WODs (like Angie) and take that with you. Bring a deck of cards for a workout, etc.
5. Hotel stairwells are your friend. Pick an exercise that you'll have to do at each landing. Starting at the ground floor, sprint to each landing, perform the exercise, then sprint to the next until you're at the top. Walk back down and start again.
6. Scout area playgrounds...dips and pullups are almost always possible on playground equipment. Local high schools almost always have a track (hello plyos and sprints).
7. Bring a swimsuit, and use digitalcity to find local public pools. Do one of the Water-WODs that've been floating (no pun intended) around the message board lately.

I'm sold on the "B-Squat" already. The combat sports aplications are obvious there. Gonna play around with it later.

-D.

authoritative, Matt...authoritative

Just a lot of experience E. If I didn't do these things, I wouldn't get to work out about 30% of the time.

On the "remote wilderness" front I'm not nearly as informed. Last year when I went to the Boundary Waters for a week, I had my jump rope, running shoes and some bodyweight workouts which worked OK at camp. The rest of the time I either swam in the lakes or was paddling and portaging so much that I felt things were covered.

If I'm traveling by car - running shoes, Lifelife Jungle Gym (for doorway pullups that don't threaten to tear hotel room doors off wimpy hinges), a couple kettlebells, clubbells, a deck of cards and the timer.

If I'm traveling by plane - running shoes, Jungle gym, cards and timer. I also took my rings and a small container of loose chalk with me to Cancun; I had an interesting time explaining to the non-English speaking customs officials what those items were doing in my suitcase!

oooohhhhh...ahhhh!(re:b-squat stance).

BTW, i think that might be a little extreme just to check the WOD.

The subject in todays picture demonstrates a very simple, elegant and strikingly functional squat. And yeah, I would like to see the laptop on a tree stump at about knee height so the lumbar spine would be arched, and the upper torso would maintain a vertical posture. But given the circumstances, what a nice application of fundamentals. Bravo!

Please elaborate on the use of the deck of cards, Matt and Kelly. Sounds like it could be really helpful for me.

I travel a lot for business too, but unfortunately I fall into Matt's category (1), where my business travel days tend to be super-long. As a result I find it very, very difficult to squeeze in workouts when I travel.

Classic story: I'm currently on the road; writing from Bologna, Italy. Nice enough place, but the gym that hotel guests have access to is closed on Sunday. Oh, and it closed at 7:30pm yesterday, and I was stuck in meetings, so I couldn't go. Came from Atlanta, where I started my day at 3:45am (don't ask). When I'm in California, my workdays start at 4:30am (NYSE hours).

Maybe I need a better job. But I clearly need a better process for on-road working out. Thanks, Matt and Kelly, for the advice and tips.

TK...RE: deck of cards. Pick 4 exercises, 1 for each suit in the deck. Shuffle the deck and then deal yourself a card. Whatever the face value is of that card, perform that many reps of whatever exercise you assigned to that suit.

I played around with the b-squat following Friday's squat-centric WOD. On the one hand, it felt really, really odd - unbalanced, and placing the workload disproportionately on the leading leg.

But, at the same time, I was able to match my best OHS weight with far less shoulder stress. The weight just felt 'lighter'.

So, I'll be b-squatting the OHS's in my warmup for the next few weeks. I'm really curious to see what happens when the technique goes from something that I can understand and approve of intellectually, to something that kinesthetically feels 'right'.

OHS: 5x40, 3x50, 2x60, 1x65, 70, 3x72.5kg
Snatch: 3x1x40, 1x50, 55, 57.5, 60, 62.5kg

Few hours later:

3 rounds of:

Run 800m
21, 15, 9 thruster, 42.5kg

Time: 20:00 (Didn't expect to match my target so well!)

B- squat is intriguing, I have always adjusted my stance slightly towards this style to protect my knee. Often felt like it was a cheat. Our bodies are not purely symmetrical, why should our stance be?

Bench Press:
20X135lbs/6X225lbs/5X225lbs/6X215lbs/5X215lbs/8X205lbs
Pull-ups: 5 Sets of 10=50

REST: 1 Hour

RUN Fairmont Canyon-Alki Time 44.93min (Started strong and remained fast probably due to Crossfit workout earlier).

Wow, how timely. I'm just about to return from Puerto Escondido, Mexico, where I've been on vacation studying Spanish for two weeks. While I've been down here, I haven't been following the WOD, but I have been doing cf-type workouts. I've been going to a local gym (bad music and bodybuilding posters, but cheap) and doing some of the benchmark workouts like Lynne, as well as doing sprints and calisthenics on the beach (including pull-ups on wooden beams of thatch huts) and working on my handstands in my hotel room. The heat and humidity is really enervating, so I've been trying to workout in the morning or evening, when it's at least moderately cool. Overall, I just haven't had the same intensity that I do at home, but I needed a break anyway. On Tuesday I'll start whipping myself back into shape in Oakland.

Travel tips cont.:

Pullups to go: get a rubber door jam(little rubber triangle, cost about $1) and kick it under a door. It should support your weight no problemo. Throw a towel over the top to grip onto and you're set for pullups. The quads do drag against the door but just look at it as an opportunity to get stronger.

The Deck o'Cards workout mentioned by Kelly and Matt is fantastic also. The cards and the door-jam together are about $2, fit in your pocket, and will give you a great workout.

A literary source for the road I would recommend is "The Underground Guide to Warrior Fitness" by Ross Enamait. A very comprehensive fitness guide with a sick variety of bodyweight exercises and conditioning programs. Perfect if you're without equipment and hardcore functionality by CF standards.

played some bball and "racquetball" w/ my lil sis. then, after some prehab, i did some C&J singles up to 155# and 2 sets of 3x155# FS after that.

I was away from home yesterday. Since I was only going to miss one day, I just picked a workout that didn't require any equipment.

Bottom to Bottom Tabata Squats and mile run.

Tabata Score 8. Mile 5:57 (actual 5:42) it took me 15 seconds to get the treadmill started.

Other things that I have done while traveling is done workouts that are typically posted on holidays, like jumping to touch an 8 foot target alternated with hand stand pushups, 21,15, 9 reps, until I get home.

On the workout above my tabata score dropped from 12-8, but I think that that has more to do with the fact that I am going lower now. My mile time improved by 1:42. The last time I did this workout was in Novemeber.