When most clients go out of town for a few days, they ask what they can do to keep up their workouts. It's great to know they are so motivated! (I won't take all the credit.)
Call me crazy, but routines pop into my head all day long. But instead of me yapping all the time, I asked a good friend of mine, at GreedyGirlsGuide.com, to share a few strategies that helped her keep up a fitness regimen while she was away on travel.
Check out what Akilah had to say:
I was surfing through blogs last week and I ran into this post about travel conflicting with weightloss, the author describes how frequent travel for work has become a constant road block in her weight loss journey. This brought me back to my days as frequent traveler in a previous job I was traveling at least 1-2 times a month. Sometimes I would be lucky enough to go to a major city like Philadelphia or Las Vegas but more often I was in more remote areas like Wisconsin. Either way over the time I developed a few strategies to help keep up my fitness regimen and reading her post inspired me to share them here on the guide.
- There are plenty of great fitness podcast available for free on ITunes. Download work out Podcast to your IPod
- YouTube is another great source for free workouts. Create a favorites list of workout videos on YouTube. Check out the Fitness category here on GreedyGirlsGuide.com for a few of my favorite picks
- Pack lightweight equipment like jump rope, resistance bands, water inflatable weights, etc.
- Try to pick hotels with a gym preferable with early and/or late hours so no matter what time you’re working and having co-worker dinners you can commit to at least 30 mins. I find the mornings are the best time so it’s out of the way; the hotels are usually close to the job site so I still wake up at my regular time and I replace what would be my commute time with a workout.
- Purchase a few workout DVD’s and play them on your laptop. Most travel assignments require you to take a laptop, so while hotels rooms don’t usually have DVD players when all else fails you can play your DVD on the laptop.
- Check your destinations weather before you go if it’s going to be nice pack your sneakers and ask the hotel desk staff for good area to go for a brisk run or walk close to the hotel. Use a site like mapmyrun.com to help you map out a good route to ensure you get your full workout.
- When you are joining a gym look into a chain gym like Bally's or Lucille Roberts that allows you to use other branches, and when you travel research where is the nearest location.
- Check on-line for great workouts like this one http://exercise.about.com/library/bltravelworkout.htm or try diet.com’s Workout Builder to make your own.
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