{"id":59099,"date":"2017-05-31T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T15:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/?p=59099"},"modified":"2021-11-18T08:27:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T13:27:18","slug":"tori-bowie-hotel-workout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/fitness\/tori-bowie-hotel-workout\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Sprinter Tori Bowie’s 20-Minute Hotel Workout"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You probably recognize Tori Bowie from her podium finishes at the Rio Olympics last year. As the anchor for the gold medal-winning 4×100-meter relay run team \u2014 scoring the second fastest time in history along with English Gardner, Allyson Felix<\/a> and Tianna Bartoletta \u2014 she quickly earned worldwide recognition for her speed<\/a> on the track. (A silver in the 100-meter dash and a bronze in the 200-meter helped, too.)<\/p>\n

But you\u2019d never guess Bowie only started training and professionally competing in sprints<\/a> in 2014. Before that, she spent her NCAA and post-collegiate years dominating the long jump. Then, while watching the 2012 Games with her grandma, the 100- and 200-meter events came on. Bowie examined the women on TV and thought, \u201cI can run faster<\/a>.\u201d Soon after, she was moving from small-town Mississippi to Clarmont, FL to work with a sprint coach.<\/p>\n

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Missing the Mark, Finding New Motivation<\/h2>\n

Bowie\u2019s performance in Rio didn\u2019t go exactly as she hoped. She thought she\u2019d easily snag the top spot in the 100- or 200-meter dash. \u201cI think I was a bit cocky [going into Rio],\u201d says the 26-year-old. \u201cI was expecting to win gold and I fell short. I\u2019m still so proud, but not getting that gold medal has motivated me more than anything in life. I\u2019m almost happy that it didn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leading up to the Games, Bowie says she wasn\u2019t as focused on training, often dodging her coach to avoid strength sessions<\/a>. \u201cBut now I\u2019ve come back and I\u2019m giving my 100 percent, so I\u2019m really looking forward to this season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking Toward the Finish Line<\/h2>\n

One glimpse at her training schedule, and you know Bowie\u2019s a woman of her word. Monday through Friday she works out from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m., spending about half the time on the track doing both speed<\/a> (repeating\u00a080-meter sprints at 75 percent effort, then 100 percent) and endurance runs<\/a>. (That means about 250 to 300 meters for a sprinter.) On Wednesdays, she\u2019s in the pool for her recovery work \u2014 \u201cfreestyle is the hardest exercise in the world,\u201d she says \u2014 and\/or practicing yoga.<\/p>\n

Bowie spends the other half of her workouts in the gym, doing Olympic lifts<\/a> most days of the week. \u201cI finally learned the positions recently, after about a year of working on them,\u201d says Bowie, who\u2019s been mastering power cleans<\/a>, deadlifts<\/a> and push presses. She also does core work like hanging leg raises and plenty of planks<\/a>. Just check out her workout below for how long she has to hold \u2018em!<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/6DJWYKSXyU\/<\/p>\n

Tori Bowie\u2019s 20-Minute Hotel Workout<\/h2>\n

Just because Bowie\u2019s on the road, doesn\u2019t mean she can skimp on training. On a recent trip to NYC, Bowie shared her hotel workout exclusively with Life by Daily Burn. Try this workout the next time you\u2019re traveling. Warm-up with about 10 minutes on the treadmill<\/a>, jogging at an easy, conversational pace. Then kick off this bodyweight routine \u2014 no equipment or even much space required. You’ll do as many rounds as possible of each set before taking your 60-second break. And don\u2019t worry, even Olympians love to hate burpees<\/a> as much as the rest of us.<\/p>\n

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Olympian Tori Bowie doesn\u2019t stop training while traveling. Try her hotel workout, plus learn why she\u2019s secretly grateful for not winning all gold in Rio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":59113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,24,6,14],"tags":[209,289,181,431,108,281,341,343,174,100],"class_list":["post-59099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardio","category-exercise","category-fitness","category-strength-training","tag-athlete","tag-exercise","tag-olympics","tag-plyometrics","tag-running","tag-strength-training","tag-tax1living-well","tag-tax2exercise","tag-travel","tag-workout"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}