Workout While Traveling | Carter Park in Breckenridge, CO

What do you when you travel? What about when you travel and don’t have access to a hotel gym?
Here is what I do…

Workout While Traveling

I open google maps and search for signs of parks, hills, or better yet something that combines them both. I’m at a work retreat in Breckenridge, CO. It is nice, we are staying in a rented house. So no hotel food, or being sequestered in a conference room for endless hours. We just chilled in the living room.

Sure we posted all sizes of Post-it-Notes on every empty section of wall. We covered over paintings to create a projector screen. We had adapted the rented house for work, but I needed a workout.

Enter Google maps. I started searching from our location. I watched for open space, parks, or something that might be some hills.

Why? I want some open space to do sprints, bodyweight exercises, and some hill sprints. Now if there is a jungle gym, monkey bars, or just about anything I can hang off for pull-ups that is a huge bonus. I struck pay-dirt.

Carter Park in Breckenridge, CO – Park and Hills

This little park provided just what I needed for a workout while traveling in Breckenridge. The park had a few jungle gyms (yeah there were a few parents of toddlers giving me strange looks, but hey). There were two open sections of grass and on the south east end … the hill.

The hill was a very steep section that offered two perfect structures for a workout: rock steps and a mountain bike trail. I took two rounds of running up the stairs, then jogging back down the mountain bike switch-back filled trail.

After the hill I made my way out into the grass. Where I did 20 squats, 50 yard sprint, 30 push-ups, and another 50 yard sprint. Then I made my way over the monkey bars for set of pull-ups. (For more ideas check out my free e-courses.)

If you add in the jog to and from the park it was just the workout that I needed while traveling in Breckenridge, CO.

So … what do you do when you are traveling, have no access to a gym, and want some exercise?

About Troy Pesola

Troy is the founder of Cube.Dweller.Fitness. He's an innovation catalyst in several areas of life including business, marketing, and process improvement. Outside of work he's actively involved in fitness, health, and living vibrantly in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.