If you are like me your daily routine get turned upside down once Summer arrives and school lets out. The kids are home, they are looking for things to do, places to go and all your free time gets sucked into the black hole called summer vacation. When I was a kid summer vacation lasted forever, now I look at the calendar and say, "I don't have time to do anything!"Your routine at the gym or other fitness routines may suffer from this schedule change. It is not uncommon to see individuals get away from what they were doing so well just a month ago and go on a "Fitness Vacation" for a few weeks. They return frustrated feeling that all their hard work has been lost and are starting from scratch.
The situation may not be as grim as you have made it out to be. The residual effects of training stay with you even after you have stopped training (kinda makes sense right since you are training for your life that happens outside of the gym.).
Your aerobic endurance and maximal strength will maintain maintain its self up to 30 (+/- 5) days, while strength endurance be be maintained 15 (+/- 5) days before you will notice considerable declines. So stop using the time you have missed as an excuse to continue to keep you away from what you want to be doing in the first place. You'll be back in the saddle in no time at all.
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