In Seattle for work and was happy to see that the Kimpton has a good setup.
A couple podcasts I listened to on the flight here:
- Joe Defranco’s Industrial Strength show: I’ll need to look up the actual episode but it was an older one. He talks about meeting a guy in Whole Foods who recognized him. He’s in his early 20s and has read a ton of stuff. Can hold a conversation about training and nutrition. He asks Joe which attachment he should use on the triceps press. It’s the basis for the whole episode. Not the attachment. The idea of focusing on tiny optimizations before actually going in and training hard and consistently. I need to break out of that mindset too because I read so much stuff written by smart people so it leads to program switching.
Speaking of Joe, I brought an elastic band with me to do some band workouts. I didn’t expect the hotel fitness area to have kettlebells. I’ll still do my pull aparts though.
Speaking of Joe again, this trip reminded me of his episode with Triple H where Triple H talks about traveling. His thing to fight jet lag was to get a workout in when he arrives at night.
This gets me to the too much information thing, because of another podcast I listened to…
- Joe Rogan with Ben Greenfield: they talk about (well they talk about a ton of stuff but one of the things is) heart rate variability. Ben explains what it is and that he sees his HRV is low when traveling. He’ll do a light workout when HRV is low.
Now this is an example of having too much information. I should probably just work out. But then I start thinking maybe it wouldn’t be good for my immune system and feeling good and all that. I overthink it.
Ben’s light workout is probably a hard one for me. I don’t even want to think of what Triple H considers a hard workout.
Anyway. I worked out. I did one arm swings (70 per side broken into 10 sets of 7 swings) and 10 mins of intervals on the treadmill.
I’m guessing it’s better than nothing.