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Fitness For the Business Traveler

So you’re the type of person who is always on the road, you’ve got a million things to do, and you don’t have time for fitness on your vacation/business trip. Right?

Wrong! The truth of the matter is that you do! Here are some ideas for staying fit on the go.

1) Quit taking the elevator for short trips! Your hotel room is on the third floor, take the stairs! Walk to the restaurant. It is only five blocks away.

2) Want to enjoy the scenery? Good, enjoy it with a pair of running shoes on. You can spend plenty of time hanging out at your favorite spots but do yourself a favor and walk or run to get there!

3) Use the fitness rooms! They are there for a reason and collecting dust isn’t it. A hard, twenty minute workout in the gym on the treadmill or with the weights will make you feel a lot better after those extra muffins you had at the continental breakfast.

4) Get in the pool/ocean. In what can be a great total body workout, spend some time swimming in the pool. Especially if you aren’t the normal swimming type, a few laps in the pool or swimming against the waves makes for a solid workout.

5) Lastly, don’t over indulge when out on the road. There are more than enough healthy eating options when on business trips or vacations and if you stick to the 80/20 rule (four out of five meals should be healthy) you can easily maintain your fitness when building up the air miles.

That’s my top five… but what about you? What tips and tricks have you developed to stay fit while traveling?

– Chaz Caiado

Three Great Health Reads

They say knowledge is power. But given how busy we all are, finding and more importantly reading that knowledge is often pushed down our To-Do list to the point that it never happens. So, this week I wanted to start a new series here on the blog. I spend a lot of time reading news about healthy living, physical fitness, diet and such. I thought it might be helpful to you if once a week I shared the top three articles I had read that week.

So here it is… for the week of July 18, 2011, these are my Three for Thursday. Give them a read and then let me know what you think of this new series via the comments.

1) Are kids specializing too soon? Is competing at too high a level at too early of an age putting your child at risk? This article describes some of the trends with adolescent injury, and risk factors for those who compete too intensely at too early of an age. It also covers a few arguments for encouraging your child to cross train, and participate in multiple sport options.

2) Simple exercises to help your tennis game.

http://www.usta.com/ask_the_lab_pilates_for_tennis/

3) Creating power in your golf, tennis, or baseball swing depends in large part to using your kinetic chain efficiently. In other words it is the timing and sequencing of moving parts allows you to create power, much like the power created when you snap someone with a towel. See how Rory McIlroy generates power

Well that covers this week’s Three for Thursday posts. Let me know what you think… I’m all ears.

-Rich

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