in-dorm/ room/ hotel workouts?

I currently live in a small residential dorm at college and have limited space (i can fit the equivalent of 3 yoga mats on the floor). Since I go to school in cold cold Maine, sometimes I lose the motivation to lug my butt to the gym all the way across campus. Does anyone have any good tips about doing an effective workout in limited space? Or about how to keep up motivation when you're all by yourself? Any advice would be welcomed. Thanks!

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  • medoria
    medoria Posts: 673 Member
    Why dont you skim through some of Jillian Michaels dvds and put your own program together using some of here moves?
  • dmpizza
    dmpizza Posts: 3,321 Member
    I had a really small dorm room that I shared with one roommate. We had a bed loft and I would do pull ups off of the timber that ran across the room.
    Some girls had small jogging trampolines.
  • SKP1986
    SKP1986 Posts: 392 Member
    When I lived in a dorm I got DDR, but I already had the playstation because I am a pretty big gamer. It sometimes annoyed the people under/around me, but as long as I didn't do it early in the morning or late at night it was usually fine. There was just BARELY enough space on the floor for the mat.

    You can do lots of other things like crunches, push-ups, get some yoga videos - tae-bo, zumba, belly dancing. There are lots of things like that that don't require TOO much room to move around.
  • 0nedayatatime
    0nedayatatime Posts: 4 Member
    I am still new to them but I would highly recommend the You are Your Own Gym by mark Laruens. He really did a great job in establishing a regime of workouts that can be done without a lot of space, or even a gym... I would give it a look!
  • CaptainMFP
    CaptainMFP Posts: 440 Member
    If you want some in-room no-equipment strength training programs, checkout http://hundredpushups.com/. There are programs there for building yourself up to doing 200 sit ups in one set (I've done this once and will be starting again soon), 100 push-ups, and a few others. I really like the 100 push-ups program because you can see week-to-week progress even if you don't advance to the next week of the program. It took me six weeks to get through the first two weeks of the program, one try to get through week 3, and it looks like I'll need at least two tries to get through week 4. The structure of the program really produces results. Even though I've taken longer than the scheduled six weeks, I can now do 29 push ups in one set; at the beginning I could only do 11. Cheers!
  • theperfectratio
    theperfectratio Posts: 49 Member
    If you message me I can link you to 30 Day Shred for free online (just the videos)! Also you can get TurboFire/P90X/etc etc and do them at home. For turbofire all you need is a yoga mat, resistance band, and lower body band! 30 Day Shred requires just a yoga mat and 2 dumbbells. Super cheap and easy to store, and not much room requirement while working out. P90X needs a bit more room, but I've never done it so I don't know exactly how much.

    Other than that, you can do bodyweight exercises like pushups, lunges, squats, crunches, planks, etc etc and cardio like high knees, butt kicks, jumping jacks, etc.

    7000 jumping jacks supposedly burns 3500 calories, which is 1 lb of fat! you can split it up and do 1000 a day (it's not that hard, I do it sometimes during commercial breaks while watching TV...do 200-300 at a time and you'll be done by the end of your favorite show...and you won't have to take your eyes off the tv even once!).

    Here are some links to bodyweight exercises that I thought were really good:

    http://i.imgur.com/Q4ipO.jpg
    http://i.imgur.com/5cjSQ.png
    http://i.imgur.com/8BnZV.png
    http://i.imgur.com/He8oV.png
    http://i.imgur.com/zAuej.png
    http://i.imgur.com/KUGfQ.png
    http://i.imgur.com/vMed1.png
  • catshark209
    catshark209 Posts: 1,133 Member
    bodyrock.tv
  • MzBug
    MzBug Posts: 2,184 Member
    Resistance bands can be used anywhere and are easy to pack in a suitcase.
  • luvmybeebees
    luvmybeebees Posts: 681 Member
    Bump :)