How to maintain your workout during a busy work period?

[MacMan156]

I have been working out for a few months now, 3-4 days a week, 1-2 hours per each workout day, there's basically three different workout days:

Day 1: chest, shoulder, tricep, Day 2: back bicep forearm, Day 3: abs and legs

But for the coming few months I will be really busy with work and I have to stay somewhere else, so I won't have the time to workout as hard anymore, plus I won't have my dumbbells with me.

Any ideas guys like on a home full body home workout that can at least help me to maintain what I have achieved so far? or else I feel like all my hard work for the past months will be gone to waste haha Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Build or get someone to make one of these and do all of the same lifts. Or you can just get a vulken gymnastic numbered strap, a lat pulldown bar and a decent board to stand on and use that. My workouts are 30 minutes every 2 days isometrics only. I no longer use dumbbells or barbells.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/D-RcX4Z441Q

See the board used in this short:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/JL-ZCZ0dy50

[MacMan156]

That's interesting and thank you for sharing! But if I were to do bodyweight exercises, I am assuming I can't bulk up right, but just probably maintain what I have now?

[Opinion Owner]

The problem with body weight is the difficulty in progressive overload and the inaccuracy of it. You could bulk up doing so, but eventually you would get to a point where it would be impractical. How many pushups would you end up doing before time was an issue? how much weight could you add to a bag on your back?

You could use resistance bands with pushups I guess but again, that is a lot of guesswork. Some use weighted vests but those are bad for the spine. Some use resistance band bars:

[MacMan156]

I see, that makes sense, but there are like different variations of bodyweight exercises that gets harder, like for pushup , there are wide push ups, handclap push ups, which i assume is sort of progressive overloading is that right?

[Opinion Owner]

Yes that's true, but you will still get to a point where you will need to do so many in order to keep progressing. That would be suitable for a short time but if you want real gainz, I think only the other methods will do. See this discussion here:

www.reddit.com/.../

[MacMan156]

Yeah i get that, it happened that's why I got a dumbbells. But thanks a lot man for sharing! I will check it out

[Opinion Owner]

You're welcome. It's the best thing I ever discovered. I gave away all of my dumbbells and barbells shortly after.