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by jcross485 » May 25th, 2025, 8:50 am
It's been a week.
Last Sunday I was supposed to travel out of state for two days (out Sunday, home Monday night) for a relatively quick work trip. The plan was to hit a quick BW circuit on Sunday afternoon and again Monday morning to do something while traveling and then pick training back up on Tuesday.
Before my flight boarded on Sunday, I got a call asking if I could head to another city after my initial stop to check out a new project we picked up. Pretty vague information other than "no idea what we could be walking into but if you can get us a rough idea, we'll figure out what's next".
Changed my Monday flight to go to another city instead of home. Tuesday morning another BW circuit to get something done, then the week unraveled.
Walked into two 17 story buildings, three 8 story buildings, three 4 story buildings, and four 3 story buildings that all sustained pretty substantial damage from recent tornadoes. Ended up spending the rest of the week there getting an initial survey done which involved climbing countless flights of stairs as power and elevators were out. Unfortunately, was not able to get to any kind of local facility with barbells / plates or an erg so did BW circuits every day of the week to do something that got my HR up and put some stress on the muscular system just to hold me over.
I am finally back home and will be picking up training where I left off.
On a positive note, there was not a single day where I didn't train - the minimum I did each day was 25 rounds of 5 pull-ups, 10 push-ups, and 15 walking lunges (per leg) with some days being a bit more, all in addition to being on my feet the majority of the day and climbing tons of stairs.
On a less positive note, my job does unfortunately lead to expectedly unexpected situations like this so I have to be flexible, adapt, find ways to do what I can, and be willing to pick up where I left off when I am back home. Not ideal; but, as someone who does not train or compete for a living and does this for personal reasons, I don't think it makes a huge difference in the end, especially as I am normally doing at least something while traveling.
Part of me wants to look into a membership to some kind of chain or franchise that tends to have C2's in their facilities that are located across the US like Anytime Fitness so I can be more consistent with the erg and barbell work. Another part of me wants to try to get back into running a bit more as it's much more accessible and convenient; however, taking the running mileage up pretty high is what ultimately got me into the erg in the first place as I was getting a bit beat up from the volume.
M, '85; 5'10" (1.78m), 185lbs (84kg)
