These easily packable products allow you to bring your workout along on your travels

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Our writer reviews three compact fitness systems and an app, and offers his tip for a tiny trigger-point massager.

Several fitness companies sell sets of equipment that you can take on the road. By John Briley March 29 Travel can jar us out of our routines, and often that’s the whole point of it. But what about the routines you’d rather not leave at home — such as your fitness regimen? Sure, you could lie to yourself about hitting the hotel gym or hope you’ll find a jogging route in a foreign land, but that’s typically a formula for coming home five pounds heavier.

Rich, an upbeat emcee who offers helpful guidance on form, is joined by two cheery co-hosts, one of whom demos novice versions of each exercise. The bag weighs less than two pounds. $65, includes 20 videos; kichgo.com Then I opened the TRX app and launched a 35-minute workout. After a quick warm-up, a trainer led me through a mix of moves that wore me out based on sheer repetition — squats and chest flys — and others that looked easy on video but proved difficult, including a crossing balance lunge and something called an atomic push-up .

I tested MMR’s street smarts against my go-to routes around my office and home and the app kicked out legit circuits, and allowed me to save runs, set training goals and more. But, maddeningly, I couldn’t search for routes ahead of a theoretical trip using the app; I had to go to the MapMyRun website to accomplish that.

Prefer off-road? Trail Run Project, a free app from REI, offers downloadable maps, many with photographs and detailed descriptions, of trails across the United States and in other countries, although the foreign library is a little thin. Monkii founder Dan Vinson emceed as his cohort Gabor mixed traditional moves such as push-ups with some more innovative ones — think holding a handle with one hand while leaning back, twisting and reaching behind with the free hand to tap the ground.

 

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