For many, travel is in their not-so-distant plans…especially with Thanksgiving and Christmas right around the corner. Many travel for business on a regular basis, or are taking a hiatus for travel.
What the heck should should we do to keep the weight off while traveling?
Let’s admit it…we will be tempted by fantastic, new and interesting food on a great vacation, or if you might be stuck with eating at fast food joints on the highways. Either way, it could possibly not be a healthy way to go, and we must be prepared with a plan to keep our figure we have been working on, or are starting to work on.
Plus, while we are traveling, it’s not like we can just pop into the gym at the airport, or find one off the highway, right?
This is one informative article with valuable information to help alleviate the stress and disaster of travel, when it comes to losing weight, working out, and sticking to a regimen. Enjoy!
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Top 10 Travel Fitness Tips – Part 1
By Tom Venuto
I recently read two articles about travel fitness. One said that while you’re traveling, you should keep up with 50% of your normal training and the other said you should keep up with only one-third. Both were written by well known fitness professionals and both said that you should NOT expect to keep up your regular exercise program while you are traveling. That struck me as kind of “lame” and I said to myself, “Why the heck not? Why do people have such low standards and demand so little of themselves? Why do they let themselves off the hook and scale back?”
Sometimes, of course, traveling is purely for a vacation – including a vacation from training. Occasional time off from intense training is beneficial and necessary to let your body recover and rejuvenate completely from chronic training stress, just as time off from the office is needed to disengage your mind for a while. It’s also true that it really doesn’t take much to maintain fitness once it is developed, and an abbreviated, but still effective, workout routine could certainly be used, if you choose, when you’re on the road.
However, you still have healthy eating to think about and just because you’re traveling doesn’t mean you can’t follow your regular exercise regimen. Why settle? If you want to continue to improve your physique while on the road, you can! Here are 10 ways that I did it on my last extended business trip that you may find helpful as well. It begins with a simple decision.
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