How to Get In Shape While Traveling (w/ 3 Items That Fit In Your Luggage)

So you're like me and you find yourself traveling. You're on the road, you're not at home and you just don't feel like going to the gym. What are the top three items that are indispensable, don't take up a lot of space and that you can bring with you no matter where you go? Pause the video now, drop it in the comments what you think these three things are that I bring with me whenever I travel. What What are the three essential workout pieces of equipment? Let's see if you guys guessed right. It is the pull-up bar attachments, a resistance band, and parallettes. So the main considerations when I was coming up with what these top three items would be, would be one, portability. How easily can you transport them, bring them with you, throw them in your bag and not have them take up a whole bunch of space. And two, versatility. So how much can you get out of each of these items and how much can they assist you with your workouts? Now, first up on the list is the resistance bands. So these come in clutch for just about anywhere and they can just get shoved anywhere in your bag. They don't take up a lot of space and you can use them in so many different ways. For beginners, for advanced athletes. So one is for warming up. I like to use the bands for stretching out, warming up my shoulders. I can use them to help me stretch and basically use them to overload my other exercises. So one great example is you can just step on the band and then use the band for curls and any kind of pulling exercise from the ground. You can sit down and do seated rows and basically get all of your pulling exercises done with the band. And one of my favorites is to overload the push-ups. So it just makes push-ups harder. Set up the band just like this and you can get your heavy push-up reps without having to load a backpack or weight onto your back. Overall the band scores extremely high on versatility and obviously portability because if you wrap this thing up this is literally how little space it actually takes up. So the band is going with me on every trip. Number two on the list is going to be parallettes. These things can fit in your bag super easy and let's be honest the floors are not the cleanest in a lot of hotels. So if you don't want to be putting your hands on the floor you can use these to do your pushing exercises and more these were like 15 bucks it's just some pvc pipe that was fitted together with some you know grips here and you can basically set up to do your push-ups and you can move these around as needed they're really light they don't weigh anything they allow you to do those more advanced calisthenics techniques if you're trying to practice or work on those you can work on these just about anywhere so parallettes definitely score pretty high up on the versatility obviously you can't do any pulling exercises with them but they're gonna knock out all of your pushing exercise needs and your calisthenics skill needs with these bad boys and portability you're gonna fit them in your bag without a problem they're not gonna weigh you down so definitely can't hurt to have these on any trip and last but not least something that I discovered just a few years ago is the DuoNamic Elevia. And these things do not take up any space because they're literally just as thick as a little book. If you go into your bag, you don't even notice that they're in there. You can fit them in between your clothes and these things strap onto any door frame and turn it into a pull-up bar. And you all know how much I love to do pull-ups. So these come with me everywhere I go. So they just strap up onto the door just like that, onto the door frame. and now that door frame has become a working pull-up bar and you can use it to knock out those pull-ups without even needing to have a pull-up bar around you're hanging from the bar there is much more that you can do than just pull-ups you can do your core exercises you can do you know your different pulling exercises your calisthenics skills and these get a pretty high score because obviously look at how little space they actually take up these go into any bag any suitcase you won't even notice that they're in there and like i said you can't beat the value that you get out of something like this that you can bring with you these go with me everywhere i go as well now i chose these three specifically also because they tend to work together so you can use the band with these you can use the band with the parallettes i'm going to show you guys some of the combinations that i use as well and that you can use so you can run the band through the Elevia and then it basically turns it into a pulling uh a pulling exercise so maybe if you can't do pull-ups you can still do these you can set up and you can do your pull downs from the frame or you can use it as an assist to help you with the pull-ups if you can't get them and obviously you can do the same thing with the band and the parallettes so if you don't want to use the floor you can mix and match you grab the band into your hands you set up on your parallettes and now you can do your overloaded more difficult push-ups using both of these tools together letting you get that deeper stretch on your press and then a much harder contraction so all in all i find these three tools indispensable when it comes to traveling so if you're somebody who finds yourself on the road flying around all the time taking luggage with you you can't bring a whole gym with you obviously you can bring these three and get yourself a full workout done in your hotel room especially if you know what you're doing with calisthenics these will help you a lot more than just having only your body weight to work with don't forget to smash that like and subscribe button let's go