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Hi there, welcome to MadefitTV. This is episode number 69—MadefitTV is everyone source of health and fitness information and entertainment—and so with MadefitTV, so it just happened—they’re made and they’re made today in Chicago. We are in the House Clubs of Chicago with Tony, Bunny, some friends of ours and we’re staying in this lovely hotel. So I figured that I would want and get a workout this morning and I thought maybe some of you guys will want to know how to use this stuff in your hotel room to get you a good workout too because there are no excuses. All right lets’ get started. So we’re in the room, we’re looking at a couple things that I’m surely you have in your hotel rooms wherever you’re staying at—ice bucket, we got some ice here, I’ll tell you what’s that for in a minute, we also have the towel. Now the goal here is to have a convenient and accessible workout inside your hotel rooms. You don’t have to go anywhere, I understand a lot of hotels do have fitness centers and that’s great and highly encourage you go to them but if yours does not or if they charge a rather high rate this is another great alternative that you can do because it's right inside your hotel room. You don’t have to go anywhere, you don’t have to worry about how you look, you don’t have to pay any dues—we’re just doing it right in here. Okay, all the moves that I’m going to show you today, you’re going to do five sets of, so we’re going to do kind within a circuits, so I’m going to show you each every single movement. All right, first thing we’re going to use is really some kettlebell swings with a bag of ice. So what I did is, I went down stair and filled up my bag of ice and I put it on the garbage bag because you can find these at the bottom of the garbage right underneath the bed. Let’s stick this in here just so it doesn’t leak. You can even fill the garbage bag with more ice if you want too to make it nice and heavy. So I’m going to choke up on the bag so I’m holding it wrapping it around my hand so it's still going to get a little bit to swing but you want to keep it closer to your hand. So we’re going to do some kettlebell swings, single arm. You’re going to stand with your feet wider, hip apart, you’re going to heap your chest just down, when you come down and swing it, swing it up and you want to control the ice just that you will control the kettlebell. Now, I understand your ice wont be as heavy as a kettlebell but it’s the same concept, you’re getting a great work out in the gluteus and the legs and you’re also giving you a really to workout in your core because you are controlling the ice that coming down, so you’re not swinging the bag. You know, you know what, maybe they said, “What the heck was going on there?” Guys, I’m really feeling this at my back. I say you do about 15 repetitions on the right side and 15 on the left, and you really feel it in the butt and the legs and obviously you’re going to repeat that because we’re going to go through it in a circuit. All right that’s the first movement. Second movement might be a little advance but there’s a way to make it a little bit easier. You’re going to take your hand towel, preferably the one you’re not using okay? Now a lot of hotel rooms have this kind of handle right here. We want to make sure—just lock the door, okay. What you’re going to do is you’re going to wrap the towel around the handle like this and it’s doesn’t have to be with the entrance, it could be to the bathroom or you know your suite closet if you have that grade of a room, but if you did, you’d be working out at the fitness center, all right. So you’re going to grab it and put around here, you might want to get to the side, I think. Okay, your feet are going to be in front of you, so you want to bring them in and this is where you’re going to trust the door because you’re going to lean back, bend the legs, so I’m like in a sitting position here you see that? And I want you to bring your feet a little bit closer to the door as you’re leaning back I want you to pull. This is a back crow guys check it out. You want to exhale and keep the chest up, keep the back straight, keep those heels on the floor like you’re pivoting on and just kind of—there. So I’m feeling this in my back most I’m feeling it on my biceps and I’m also feeling the quads because I’m holding this. Now if you want to make it a little bit harder go and straighten out the legs, lean back even more but making nervous at first. Isn’t that awesome? So that’s a great exercise that you do for your back. You can do—this is more of a by width movement so you may have to feel it out but I would do about at least ten and see how you feel. If not, do more. Okay, the next one that we’re going to do is I’m going to use this chair. Everyone going to have a chair in their room I’m sure. Unfortunately for me, this one is a swivel chair so it actually a little bit more of challenge which is good you want that challenge can challenge my core. I’m going to show you guys how to work your core doing a side-plank raise off of elevations. So I’m going to put this right over here, next to the door, and just like a plank, because this is going to get up on bed’s room is so small. All right, you want to put your form on the bed, you want to bring your feet upon the chair, one on top of the other, you want to be nice and straight, hand on your hip, your going to dip your hip down and back up. Down and back up, because I have a swivel chair, I have to make sure that I’m keeping it stable otherwise it’s going to twist off in different ways. This is a really killer. I totally feel this, I can feel it in the shoulders and I can feel it in my obloquies because you want to almost like you’re pulling up. Just want to pull your hip up, so I want you to do about ten on the right side, ten on the left. But if feel like you can do more, go for it but that’s a really challenging movement and I think it’s awesome that you guys will feel it. Next move we’re going to do is uneven pushups with the ice bucket. Follow me. Okay you guys, take the lid off put that upside down, you can use this still later. I washed it because that’s kind of grouse Lord knows what is on the floor of the hotel room, I’ve never seen those little 20-20 episodes. Oh yeah, put this right down, it’s a good idea. Chris always has good ideas. Okay, so you just can bring out upside down, one hand on the ice bucket and one hand on the ground, push up. Very cool, ten on one side and go ahead and switch to ten on the other making sure that your back is straight and you’re keeping your abs tight and if that’s little dense for you, go down to kneeling same thing you want to make sure that your legs are almost coming down like straight line from your shoulders. You don’t want to stick to bottom, so that is an awesome way to use something like this elevations, elevation are a huge deal when it comes to challenging the body with different movements. All right, the last move I’m going to show is probably something that you’ve seen before a little bit familiar but it’s using one ideal how you can use the stuff that’s in your hotel room. This is going to be the split squat. So what you’re going to do is just using bed or you can use a chair, it doesn’t swivel I’m not touching I think for this want to make fall into myself. So what you’re going to do, you’re going to put one foot on the bed and then one foot straight in front of you a little bit slightly in the front because you don’t—because we’re doing a split squat so you don’t want to injure your ankle. And the hips come straight down and stand. See I’m putting all the way to my heels, I’m just using the bed for support you know how we’re in the gym we use the stopper or just use the bed. If the bed is too high you can go ahead and use a chair. You could do about ten to 12 reps, even 10 to 15 reps on the right and left and repeat them of course. So I hope I gave you guys some different ideas of how to use the stuffs that’s inside your hotel room. I thought maybe I should bring resistance bench but I said no, like I want to see what I can use would absolutely nothing but I’m preparing coming in and actually doing a good workout and actually going to work on sweats really hot in here so but thank you so much for joining me for episode 69 of MadefitTv right here in beautiful Chicago. If you like to email me you can contact me at Jenny at MadefitTV but go to MadefitTV.com and you can actually talk to me, you can email me through the ask for Jenny button that’s right at the top and also be sure to subscribe to out podcast because we always have them and we do the streams as well and when you subscribe they come right to you and get them first thing as they upload. We’re in i-Tune, YouTube, thank you so much. A lot of you send feedback, I really appreciate guys keep coming. So I just want to thank you following me on Twitter I’m at Jenny DiDonato and I’m Jennifer DiDonato on Facebook. So I really appreciate you guys joining me I hope when you have your travels you still stay fit and motivated and focused. Have a great trip and have a good afternoon.

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Hi there, welcome to MadefitTV. This is episode number 69—MadefitTV is everyone source of health and fitness information and entertainment—and so with MadefitTV, so it just happened—they’re made and they’re made today in Chicago. We are in the House Clubs of Chicago with Tony, Bunny, some friends of ours and we’re staying in this lovely hotel. So I figured that I would want and get a workout this morning and I thought maybe some of you guys will want to know how to use this stuff in your hotel room to get you a good workout too because there are no excuses. All right lets’ get started.

So we’re in the room, we’re looking at a couple things that I’m surely you have in your hotel rooms wherever you’re staying at—ice bucket, we got some ice here, I’ll tell you what’s that for in a minute, we also have the towel. Now the goal here is to have a convenient and accessible workout inside your hotel rooms. You don’t have to go anywhere, I understand a lot of hotels do have fitness centers and that’s great and highly encourage you go to them but if yours does not or if they charge a rather high rate this is another great alternative that you can do because it's right inside your hotel room. You don’t have to go anywhere, you don’t have to worry about how you look, you don’t have to pay any dues—we’re just doing it right in here.

Okay, all the moves that I’m going to show you today, you’re going to do five sets of, so we’re going to do kind within a circuits, so I’m going to show you each every single movement. All right, first thing we’re going to use is really some kettlebell swings with a bag of ice. So what I did is, I went down stair and filled up my bag of ice and I put it on the garbage bag because you can find these at the bottom of the garbage right underneath the bed. Let’s stick this in here just so it doesn’t leak. You can even fill the garbage bag with more ice if you want too to make it nice and heavy.

So I’m going to choke up on the bag so I’m holding it wrapping it around my hand so it's still going to get a little bit to swing but you want to keep it closer to your hand. So we’re going to do some kettlebell swings, single arm. You’re going to stand with your feet wider, hip apart, you’re going to heap your chest just down, when you come down and swing it, swing it up and you want to control the ice just that you will control the kettlebell.

Now, I understand your ice wont be as heavy as a kettlebell but it’s the same concept, you’re getting a great work out in the gluteus and the legs and you’re also giving you a really to workout in your core because you are controlling the ice that coming down, so you’re not swinging the bag. You know, you know what, maybe they said, “What the heck was going on there?” Guys, I’m really feeling this at my back. I say you do about
15 repetitions on the right side and 15 on the left, and you really feel it in the butt and the legs and obviously you’re going to repeat that because we’re going to go through it in a circuit. All right that’s the first movement.

Second movement might be a little advance but there’s a way to make it a little bit easier. You’re going to take your hand towel, preferably the one you’re not using okay? Now a lot of hotel rooms have this kind of handle right here. We want to make sure—just lock the door, okay. What you’re going to do is you’re going to wrap the towel around the handle like this and it’s doesn’t have to be with the entrance, it could be to the bathroom or you know your suite closet if you have that grade of a room, but if you did, you’d be working out at the fitness center, all right. So you’re going to grab it and put around here, you might want to get to the side, I think. Okay, your feet are going to be in front of you, so you want to bring them in and this is where you’re going to trust the door because you’re going to lean back, bend the legs, so I’m like in a sitting position here you see that? And I want you to bring your feet a little bit closer to the door as you’re leaning back I want you to pull. This is a back crow guys check it out.

You want to exhale and keep the chest up, keep the back straight, keep those heels on the floor like you’re pivoting on and just kind of—there. So I’m feeling this in my back most I’m feeling it on my biceps and I’m also feeling the quads because I’m holding this. Now if you want to make it a little bit harder go and straighten out the legs, lean back even more but making nervous at first. Isn’t that awesome? So that’s a great exercise that you do for your back. You can do—this is more of a by width movement so you may have to feel it out but I would do about at least ten and see how you feel. If not, do more.

Okay, the next one that we’re going to do is I’m going to use this chair. Everyone going to have a chair in their room I’m sure. Unfortunately for me, this one is a swivel chair so it actually a little bit more of challenge which is good you want that challenge can challenge my core. I’m going to show you guys how to work your core doing a side-plank raise off of elevations. So I’m going to put this right over here, next to the door, and just like a plank, because this is going to get up on bed’s room is so small. All right, you want to put your form on the bed, you want to bring your feet upon the chair, one on top of the other, you want to be nice and straight, hand on your hip, your going to dip your hip down and back up. Down and back up, because I have a swivel chair, I have to make sure that I’m keeping it stable otherwise it’s going to twist off in different ways. This is a really killer. I totally feel this, I can feel it in the shoulders and I can feel it in my obloquies because you want to almost like you’re pulling up. Just want to pull your hip up, so I want you to do about ten on the right side, ten on the left. But if feel like you can do more, go for it but that’s a really challenging movement and I think it’s awesome that you guys will feel it.

Next move we’re going to do is uneven pushups with the ice bucket. Follow me. Okay you guys, take the lid off put that upside down, you can use this still later. I washed it because that’s kind of grouse Lord knows what is on the floor of the hotel room, I’ve never seen those little 20-20 episodes. Oh yeah, put this right down, it’s a good idea. Chris always has good ideas. Okay, so you just can bring out upside down, one hand on the ice bucket and one hand on the ground, push up. Very cool, ten on one side and go ahead and switch to ten on the other making sure that your back is straight and you’re keeping your abs tight and if that’s little dense for you, go down to kneeling same thing you want to make sure that your legs are almost coming down like straight line from your shoulders.

You don’t want to stick to bottom, so that is an awesome way to use something like this elevations, elevation are a huge deal when it comes to challenging the body with different movements.

All right, the last move I’m going to show is probably something that you’ve seen before a little bit familiar but it’s using one ideal how you can use the stuff that’s in your hotel room. This is going to be the split squat. So what you’re going to do is just using bed or you can use a chair, it doesn’t swivel I’m not touching I think for this want to make fall into myself.

So what you’re going to do, you’re going to put one foot on the bed and then one foot straight in front of you a little bit slightly in the front because you don’t—because we’re doing a split squat so you don’t want to injure your ankle. And the hips come straight down and stand. See I’m putting all the way to my heels, I’m just using the bed for support you know how we’re in the gym we use the stopper or just use the bed. If the bed is too high you can go ahead and use a chair. You could do about ten to 12 reps, even 10 to 15 reps on the right and left and repeat them of course.

So I hope I gave you guys some different ideas of how to use the stuffs that’s inside your hotel room. I thought maybe I should bring resistance bench but I said no, like I want to see what I can use would absolutely nothing but I’m preparing coming in and actually doing a good workout and actually going to work on sweats really hot in here so but thank you so much for joining me for episode 69 of MadefitTv right here in beautiful Chicago.

If you like to email me you can contact me at Jenny at MadefitTV but go to MadefitTV.com and you can actually talk to me, you can email me through the ask for Jenny button that’s right at the top and also be sure to subscribe to out podcast because we always have them and we do the streams as well and when you subscribe they come right to you and get them first thing as they upload. We’re in i-Tune, YouTube, thank you so much. A lot of you send feedback, I really appreciate guys keep coming. So I just want to thank you following me on Twitter I’m at Jenny DiDonato and I’m Jennifer DiDonato on Facebook. So I really appreciate you guys joining me I hope when you have your travels you still stay fit and motivated and focused. Have a great trip and have a good afternoon.

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Hotel Room Workout Tips

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