What Happens When I Stop Exercise For 2 Weeks? - Personal Trainer Explains

As a Singapore personal trainer and fitness bootcamp owner, I am happy to say is that the clients at the our personal training Center soon learn to enjoy the healthy, lean, strong and energetic life.

But there come times when life just gets in the way. In the last week alone, one client moved his office to a brand new building and it has a lot more dust and he was unwell and couldn't train for a week.

Another 2 gym members just had new born babies.

And weekly, many clients go on business trips or other things that life just throws in the way of training and gym time!

This is not the way to get great results. But sometimes it happens and do you know what?

Our clients get WORRIED. "will I get fat again?", "What about all my hard work?", "What can I do do keep my results?" and other questions like that. You may feel the same way!

For out personal training members, we help by giving them simple workouts they can do in their hotel room. This is one thing you can do on the road to keep the bulge at bay...

But as long as these interruptions don't happen often, there is nothing to worry about.

First, be prepared, you will lose strength. In fact the more advanced you are and the more experienced you are and the stronger you are, the more strength you will lose due to a loss of efficiency in your nervous system (how your brain controls your muscles). The decrease could be as significant as 20% of your previous best lifts! It is especially bad if you are stressed during your 2 week break. No sleep, worrying about work and time zone changes make this effect worse.

BUT don't worry, it comes back pretty fast when you consistently train again. Just do some sets with low reps and high weight, and you will be back to full strength soon.

Second, you may look "smaller" due to losses in muscle glycogen. You probably don't eat as well, or as much when on a stressful business trip.

Or you might look fatter! because you may not be in control of your nutrition while overseas.

Either way, 2 weeks of imperfect food will be fixed with a few weeks of proper nutrition. No problem. This stuff happens to me as well when I go to army reservist or on holiday.

Finally, you may actually lose muscle size. But in 2 weeks this factor is not that significant and you will be back to peak shape quickly.

So in conclusion:

1. You shouldn't skip training!

2. If this occurs, try to do something during your time away! Just like our personal training clients, do a simple travel workout plan, but as a minimum, at least be active with walking, hiking or something!

3. It is not so bad, but you must get back on track ASAP