Travel

Sometimes my clients travel, either for work or pleasure.  I am always happy to send them a workout to take with them.

If my clients are staying at a place with a gym, it’s easy.  I give them a list of things to do and let them loose.  If they aren’t, or don’t know, I can always send them a body-weight workout that can be done in any hotel room ever.  Sometimes clients travel with stretch bands or sliders or other workout stuff and I plan around what they have.

 

But.

 

It can be extra challenging to work out when we are not in our usual routines.  If we’re traveling for work, working out might be a useful way to stay energized and reduce stress.  Or we may find that shifting time zones and dealing with logistics and eating restaurant food is more than we can cope with as it is; working out is just too much.

 

Vacations are a whole different story.  Depending on where we’re going, we may find ourselves way more active than we are at home.  Trekking through museums burns a gazillion calories, more or less.  Skiing, swimming, hiking, and biking can be energetic vacation activities.  Then again, we may have the kind of vacation in which our biggest exercise is turning over on the beach.

 

Travel workouts are great.  Not working out while traveling is also okay.  We need to do what makes us feel best.  Sometimes that is working out and sometimes that is rest.  What we definitely do not need to do is beat ourselves up about what we choose.  We do our best.