Traveling fitness workouts

Fitness While Traveling

Exercise is such an important part of a healthy lifestyle. Many of our business/work environments can make it difficult to keep our healthy lifestyle going when we are on the road, here are a few tips to keep those exercises burning while you are away.

1. Consider exercise area and/or facility available in your lodging choices. Remember you do not need a gym as long as you have a basic exercise library in mind to do anywhere, parks, hotel rooms, trails, anywhere! If your hotel does have a gym facility find out what they have before you go so you can plan ahead with your trainer. (you may wish to reduce the intensity if you are using a machine indoors that you are not accustomed to.)

2. Plan your trip schedule to include time for exercise. Business trips tend to be time crunched with meetings lunches and dinners that might leave you tired, stressed and just feeling like yuk! Take the time out to exercise, even a brisk walk can do wonders for your concentration and stress levels. Offer this in the meeting, maybe get a group together to do it with you. This would be a great plan for others that are coming who are exercise minded.

3.  Understand how reduced exercise time affects your fitness level. It is much easier to maintain your current level of fitness than it is to improve your level of fitness. Current evidence suggests that you can take up to aweek off from exercise training without any significant reduction in your fitness level.  Just remember while you are traviling, it can put different stress levels on your body than your normal everyday schedule.

4. Sample exercises to take with you; Start any exercise routing with a 10 minute warm up.

Lunges (forward, reverse, side), squats (narrow, wide stance),  Wall Sits (hold as long as you can) Push ups (on floor or wall) Pull Ups (find a park with monkey bars) Row with resistence tubing, Planks/Side planks, Bridging,  Bicycle crunches, Calf Raises, 1 leg balance ( stand on 1 foot for as long as you can)

Last but not least cool down and stretch! You will feel much better after your trip!