Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 01:52:54 -0500
Reply-To: Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
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From: Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Subject: Re: Exercise while camping.?
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I was going to suggest Military pressing the 80# canoe on top of the Westy!
Actually paddling the canoe(with good technique of course!!) is a pretty
good workout also, but if that isn't enough resistance training, tie a long
bungie cord from the stern ofthe boat to the boat dock and flail away. The
scenery doesn't change, but your heart rate will increase!! Intentionally
running both batteries down so you have to physically push start the van is
another option. But the Posturepedic pushups behind the drawn curtains?
That's not exercise, that's cementing the relationship!!
Seriously, there's nothing wrong with doing simple body weight exercises
while on trips. A change in the Bowflex routine might actually be good for
you and the Mrs. Pushups, situps, pull ups, and pulling two picnic tables a
couple feet apart will make a decent dip station if you bend you knees, and
an 8-12# pr. of dumbells should get you a decent workout. I have seen an
amazing amount of resistance built while using the Physical Therapist's gray
surgical tubing. Looping it over a side view mirror can get you some
resistance as well.
I've also seen folks park in the back of fancy lodges and pop out in their
athletic attire and slide on in the "mini" gym advertised. Which employee
is going to have the audacity to ask you which room you are in? Traveling
through towns with health clubs, you could pretend to be interested in
joining and bum a free visit or two(or fell guilty and ask how much they'd
charge for a couple visits. I actually carry a plastic covered 10# barbell
weight to put under my jack in case I have a flat in soft ground country.
If you want to exercise while traveling, you'll find a way.
Mark Twain once said every time he got the urge to exercise, he'd lie down
until it went away.
Dimwitted Moose and Flying Squirrel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-Guy Savoie" <jgsavoie@NBNET.NB.CA>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: Exercise while camping.?
> Hmmmm... Excerise while camping... alone with your wife, in your
Westfalia,
> with the curtains drawn...
>
> Maybe you could try a few dozen pop top lifts; 10 reps of the old driver's
> chair swivel will make your bowflex seem useless; the top-side bunk climb
> can challenge the most herculean camper. ;~)
>
> Should I sign?
>
> JGS
>
> 84 1.9L Westfalia
> Bleu Schtroumpf
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bill N <freeholder@STARBAND.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 11:33 PM
> Subject: Exercise while camping.?
>
>
> > My wife and I like to work out three times a week. However, when we go
> > camping,
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