Staying Lean on Vacation with Devon Castro

Build for Health with Srdjan Injac · Jun 18, 2026 · 34m

ELEV8 trainer Devon Castro joins hosts Pete Wright and Srdjan Injac to take on a familiar fear: that a vacation will erase a year of training. It doesn't hold up. Muscle is durable: meaningful loss takes weeks of true inactivity, not a long weekend, and the "deflated" look people notice after a few days off is water and glycogen shifting — not muscle disappearing. Cardio fades faster than strength, which is why a swim, a hike, or a morning run protects the fitness that actually slips first.

Maintaining doesn't require a real gym, either. A handful of big compound movements or a short…