The Road Warrior Workout

by Crunch Fitness Guides and Crunch

This is the workout book for business men and women who spend more time in airports than a gym. The fitness specialists from Crunch provide expert guidance on how to stay fit on the road - whether... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578260256
• ISBN13: 9781578260256
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Hatherleigh Press
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Compact and complete book for the frequent traveler

The Crunch Fitness Guides "Road Warrior Workout" is a four-part guide to complete fitness for the frequent traveler. Overall, it's a compact and fairly comprensive book - not just for the "road warrior," but for anyone who does not want to invest in a lot of exercise equipment.The book offers some unexpected benefits, like URLS for some web sites for frequent travelers, and a guest pass for use a CRUNCH gym (valued at $22.00 - more than paying for the book).Part I contains no exercises, but discusses some of the dangers of frequent travel, including dehydration, back pain and insomnia.Part II is a pre-travel workout - a combination of cardio, strength-training (including a lot of dumbell, barbell exercises and a couple of cable and other weight-machine exercises), and streching moves, with suggested reps and intervals. With the exception of the cardio plan (not very detailed - basically recommending jumping rope), there are enough different moves to provide you with some variety, and the stretches are pretty comprehensive.Part III, titled "Tranquility In Transit" is a series of exercises and stretches for you do enroute (on a plane). Although the yogo-like postures and stretches do look beneficial, many of them would still realistically be tough to perform in the cramped quarters of an airline seat (if there were other passengers in your row), and several of them involve standing in the aisle, which is not a viable option. However, they are still good exercies, just not ones I would choose to do on an airplane.Part IV is the hotel-room routine, which utilizes standard pieces of furniture and hotel-room props (i.e. telephone book, towels, luggage) and portable exercise bands to give some creative options to work on strength and flexibility in the comfort of your hotel room. Again, some of the exercises, especially those involving dresser drawers, are not super-realistic, but the majority are good.