AMA: Intense exercise protocol and travel workouts
The ideal number of high-intensity workouts to do for your goal; a surprising way to approach exercise while traveling.
Post summary
Our AMA covers two questions:
How many intense workouts should I do each week? (A nuanced take depending on your goals)
What’s a good exercise protocol for traveling?
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The Post
It’s the last Friday of the month, so it’s time for our AMA.
We recently had a few comments about intense training and how to exercise while traveling. So I’m re-running an AMA I did on these two questions.
The first question is: How many intense workouts should I do each week? The answer explores:
How to tailor intense exercise to your goal.
The upsides and downsides of hard exercise.
What constitutes an intense workout? (Definition).
Research on the effects of high-intensity training.
How the effects of high-intensity training change as we age.
How to fit high-intensity exercise into your life based on how many days a week you exercise.
The second question is: What’s a good exercise protocol for traveling? (Especially air travel, where you can’t bring equipment.) We look at:
How I approach exercise while traveling.
How to use hotel gyms better.
The psychological upsides of re-framing travel workouts.
The fundamental workout framework you can do in your hotel room or even the worst hotel gym.
Let’s roll … below you’ll find:
Audio of the post (you can also get it in the podcast feed).
Show notes featuring deeper descriptions of the information, study links, a hotel room workout, etc.
A transcript for people who prefer to read.