Ask the Personal Trainer

Joni Hyde is a Certified Personal Trainer and owner of WorkoutsForWomen.com

Q. I do weight training two days a week but now I travel a lot for business, are there effective exercises I can do in my hotel room when I can’t get to the gym?

A. Sure! A few ideas are pushups and tricep dips off a chair for upper body. These two exercises will work your chest triceps and shoulders.

For lower body, do squats, lunges, plies and calf rises for a total lower body workout. And don’t forget the crunches and reverse curls for your abdominal muscles.

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