Looking to burn some calories during your holidays? Here’s 11 intense bodyweight exercises for a workout routine in the comfort of your hotel room!
Our YouTrip Ambassador, Miss FITFI, shares her workout tips on staying fit during her travels!
We know that feeling: You’ve just gotten your key card to your hotel room, and you put down your luggage hoping to get some exercise time in. You trudge to the hotel gym, only to see that it’s too crowded.
Here’s an effective bodyweight (yay to zero equipment!) workout routine that you can do at any time of the day, without ever leaving your hotel room. Since it’s done in the privacy of your hotel room, you also don’t really need to care about being decked out in gym wear. 😉
BONUS: The whole workout requires no jumping as well, so your neighbours don’t have to hear you going on your third set of 10 star jumps.
How it works:
- Perform each exercise continuously for one minute
- Rest 15 seconds between each exercise
- Repeat whole routine for three rounds
1. Wall Sit
Targeted muscles: calves, quads, glutes, and hamstrings
- Rest your back on a sturdy wall with your knees bent
- Create a 90 degree angle with your thighs and shins
- Place your hands on your hips and lift one leg off the floor
- Return and repeat with alternating sides
2. Plank Touches
Targeted muscles: core, glutes, arms, and shoulders
- Start in a low plank position with your forearms on the ground
- Tuck in your core and ensure your back isn’t sinking
- Set your Youtrip card as marker in front of you
- Lift one arm out to reach and tap the marker
- Return and repeat with alternating sides
3. Walking Push-Ups
Targeted muscles: core, glutes, arms, chest, and shoulders
- Begin in a high plank position
- Rest on your knees (easier) or toes (harder)
- Place your YouTrip card as marker beside your left hand
- Perform a full pushup
- Walk your hands to the left until right hand is on the marker
- Perform another pushup
- Return and repeat
4. Cossack Squats
Targeted muscles: core, quads, hamstrings, glutes, hip adductors, abs, and lower back
- Start with a wide stance
- Descend with most of your weight on one leg
- Keep other leg out to the side and straight
- Hold your arms out in front as a counterbalance
- Return and repeat with alternating sides
5. Bodyweight Squats
Targeted muscles: quads, hamstrings, glutes, and hip adductors
- Stand with feet shoulder width apart
- Turn toes slightly outward with core engaged
- Bend knees to lower into a seating position
- Ensure thighs are parallel to the ground
- Return to starting position and repeat
6. Superman
Targeted muscles: glutes, hamstrings, and back muscles
- Lie flat on your stomach with your arms outstretched
- Keep your arms and legs straight and lift them off the ground
- Keep your core flat on the ground
- Hold this raised position for three seconds
- Lower to starting position and repeat
7. Sliding Plank to Knee Tuck
Targeted muscles: core, glutes, hamstrings, and arms
- Fold a towel until suitable size to place under your feet
- Start on all fours with hands on floor shoulder-width apart
- Place feet on the towel and get into high plank
- Slide your feet forward to bring your knees toward your chest
- Push your feet back to starting point and repeat
8. Sliding Plank to Pike
Targeted muscles: core, glutes, hamstrings, back and arms
- Fold a towel until suitable size to place under your feet
- Start on all fours with hands on floor shoulder-width apart
- Place feet on the towel and get into high plank
- Keep your legs straight and slide your feet forward
- Pull your hips up into pike position
- Use your abs to lower hips back down
9. Towel Pull Through
Targeted muscles: core, shoulders, and arms
- Start in a plank position with a folded towel beside your palm
- Use your opposite hand to pull the towel through the other side
- Repeat with alternating sides
10. Sliding Side Lunge
Targeted muscles: core, glutes, hamstrings, and calves
- Start with a towel under one foot
- Slide your foot to the side and lower into side lunge position
- Slide your foot back to starting position
- Repeat for 30 seconds before switching to other foot
11. Sliding Back Lunge
Targeted muscles: core, glutes, hamstrings, and calves
- Start with a towel under one foot
- Slide your foot back and lower into back lunge position
- Slide your foot back to starting position
- Repeat for 30 seconds before switching to other foot
Don’t forget to repeat the whole routine three times!
Now that you’ve gotten a great workout completed in your hotel room with no equipment, it’s time to go hunt for delicious food and shopping bargains. Also, don’t forget to utilise your YouTrip card for favourable Wholesale Exchange Rates!
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