: Possible training approach while in holidays My workouts consist of weight-lifting followed by a moderate cardio session. I'm pretty used to it, but I have a growing concern; I'm visiting my folks for the holidays and I plan

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If your workout session is limited to the gym, you need to be introduced into the world of Calisthenics

Let me whet your appetite with a few links:

Bar Brothers

Barstarzz

Essentially,

Any strong, horizontal overhead bar is your equipment for building strong back, lats, arms, biceps, triceps, and shoulders via pull ups, chin ups, and muscle ups.
Your staircase hand rails (if it's narrow enough or putting two chairs across each other) is your dip station to build bigger triceps and chest
The floor is always available for for various types of push ups.
The floor is always available for core exercises.
Fill up a 5 gallon bottle with water and you can perform front squats, one-arm bicep curl, and overhead press with it.
A lot of neighborhoods (especially in the US) have playgrounds with bars. Go nuts!

My point is simple: there are ample exercise equipment around you outside the gym; recognize them, use them, and you'll never be limited to the gym.

Wait.....there's more!

If you have your personal dumbbells (or an EZ curl bar with disc) and you're driving to your folks, you can easily take those with you.
While jogging is the de facto running mode, sprinting is a better way for you to keep in shape. Interweave sprinting with knee jumping for maximum cardio.
Yoga and pilates are also wonderful alternatives. You can use the time to stretch your body, joints, and muscles.

Where there's a way, there's a kickass way to stay in shape.

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I think best way is to go for HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) along with some band exercise. HIIT is all about body weight training with no equipment, however the focus is on short bursts rather than long cardio exercises. Try these:

Burpees
Squats
Pushups
Jumping Lunges
Vertical Jumps

Do every exercise as hard as possible for 45 seconds and take a 15 seconds break and move to the next exercise. Try completing 3-5 sets of these exercise and you will melt away fat.

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Honestly, 11 days isn't going to destroy your gains and you may even benefit from the break.

Consider just going for a run, to keep on schedule and not feel like garbage. You could also drop ~ on a knock-off TRX, or run to a playground somewhere and knock out some pullups. Or rig up the suspension trainer on a nearby tree.

If you're doing real strength training in a gym, you're not going to be able to simulate that in any practical sense without a gym.

Another real option, if you have the cash to drop (or have them already) would be a couple of heavy kettlebells. I'll use my 53LB for swings, snatches, and other such lifts. Tossing in some sprints, pushups, and pullups, it's not a bad workout.