Top 10 Travel fitness tips

Occasional time off from intense training is beneficial and necessary to let your body recover and rejuvenate completely from chronic training stress. If you want to continue to improve your physique while on the road, you can! Here are top 10 travel fitness tips from Tom Venuto, author of the best selling e-book, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle.

1. Decide to improve while you’re traveling

The only reason most people usually come home with lower fitness and a few extra pounds than when they left is because they didn’t make a decision to do otherwise. In fact, many people hold a belief that it’s “impossible” to stay on their eating and exercise program while they are traveling! Why not get in better shape no matter where you are? The truth is, all it takes is a decision and some planning. Find it a fun and exhilarating challenge to improve yourself no matter where you are in the world.

2. Write out your workout schedule in advance

There’s nothing like setting your goals and writing down on paper to keep your mind focused and keep yourself motivated. In addition to writing out goals regularly, preferably every day, you should also commit your training schedule to paper and especially when you are traveling. There are many reasons people have trouble staying motivated. Write down the days, the time of the day and the exact workout you plan to do and you will be amazed at how easy you will find it is to get to the gym and have great workouts.

3. Get a hotel with a kitchen

If you don’t have kitchen, you will be much more likely to skip meals, it’s very difficult to eat 5 or 6 times a day (as required by any good fat burning or muscle building nutrition program), and you may end up at the mercy of restaurant, hotel or convenience store food. You may also find that many hotels will provide you with a microwave and mini-refrigerator if you ask for them.

4. Go to shopping immediately

The FIRST thing to do after checking in was straight to the local grocery store. Make sure you'll have the shopping list, because it's easy to forget one or two small items if you didn’t have the written grocery list. Once you have a fully stocked refrigerator and kitchen, your meal planning and preparation is NO DIFFERENT than it is when you are home.

5. Check the local restaurant locations

If you walk into a restaurant without having made a decision in advance whether you are staying on your regular meals or having a cheat meal, you are much more likely to have a "diet accident" and make a poor choice on impulse, especially if you’re influenced by non-healthy-eating companions (don’t under estimate the negative peer pressure factor). Find out the best ways to stop eating fast food, all it takes is one unplanned cheat meal and that can often lead to guilt.

6. Cook portable foods

Cook portable foods and bring meal replacements or healthy snacks for drives, flights and day trips. learn how to make a variety of portable foods including several different types of oatmeal pancakes, tuna burgers and healthy sandwiches, click this link to find some of the best recipes. Some of these "portable foods" can be even eaten with your hands while you are in a car, on a plane or sitting in a seminar room.

7. Check hotel fitness facilities in advance

Many people work out right in their hotel rooms with a body weight exercise program or even portable equipment. If you are already a member of a gym in your local area, check to see if your gym has an affiliation with other clubs around the country or if they belong to an organization such as IHRSA (international Health, Racque & Sports club Association). Some clubs are part of a network which allows you to train at other clubs when you' re traveling.

8. Pack your workout gear & clothes

When you pack hastily at the last minute, things can easily be forgotten and left behind, so be sure to pack plenty of workout clothes with you and bring any other gym gear you might need (belt, exercise mat, lifting straps, etc). For extended trips, inquire with your hotel to see if they have laundry facilities.

9. Change your workouts

Some people get accustomed to their hometown gym and they’re upset or disappointed when they don’t have access to the same equipment when they travel. You can try some of the pilates exercises, this will work your body with integrated movement, connecting all the weaker body parts to your strong core and you can make your stomach as hard as steel.

Your body adapts to any workout, often in just a matter of weeks. You might want to take advantage of it when you have new and different equipment at your disposal. Design an entirely new workout program and do something 100% different. Sometimes a simple change stimulate new progress.

10. Walk, bike or make physical recreation part

Mountain Biking is a super-fun, high-intensity, leg burning workout that will melt fat off of your entire body and build awesome legs at the same time. Also you can try rock climbing, yet another fun way to get in a great workout that will also challenge you both physically and mentally. It also really works your grip strength and forearms like crazy. There are so many different and non-traditional fun training styles out there, that there is no reason you should ever get bored with your workouts.

Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle

Tom Venuto is a natural bodybuilder and author of the best selling e-book, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle, which teaches you how to burn fat without drugs or supplements using the little-known secrets of the world's best bodybuilders and fitness models.