Stuck without weights for several days, what should I do?

brandontheguy
brandontheguy Posts: 3
in Fitness and Exercise
I've been trying to gain muscle/strength here for the last couple of months. I'm currently using the Stronglifts 5x5 program. If you aren't familiar with that, it basically uses five exercises: squat, benchpress, barbell row, shoulder press, and dead lift. You do five sets of five reps and add five lbs each day you do that exercise, if you completed all sets the previous workout.

Anyway, I am just now getting to the point that I have my form down pat, and my weight is getting to where it is really starting to work my muscles, but I will spend the next week and a half camping with my family.

I have no access to any sort of weights, so what body weight exercises can I do that would keep me progressing?

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  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    Rest week, especially if you've gone the past couple of months without one. One week won't make a difference, you may even come back stronger.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    Rest week, especially if you've gone the past couple of months without one. One week won't make a difference, you may even come back stronger.

    ^this. enjoy the time with your family. you got the rest of your life to get stronger
  • brandontheguy
    brandontheguy Posts: 3
    Well that's no fun...
  • Cerakoala
    Cerakoala Posts: 2,547 Member
    I am sure if you really wanted to do something you could use your body as weights. I am not to versed in this stuff yet as I just started lifting but maybe things like pushups or wallclimbs. Those things use your muscles and you don't need weights. Maybe google some things like that to get an idea :)
  • Illona88
    Illona88 Posts: 903 Member
    Get creative.

    Do push-ups in the grass, fill up a bucket with water and lift that. Do bench presses using the kids in your family as weights.
    Go into the woods to do pull ups on a sturdy tree branch. Climb onto that tree branch to do upside down hanging sit ups (can't remember what those are called). Grab a big and heavy tree branch off the ground and do bench presses with it.

    Just see what you can find there and have fun with it. You don't need to do the exact exercises you normally do at the gym, it's only a week.

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