What Are Some Creative Ways To Stay Active And Maintain Fitness Levels While Traveling?

Methods for Maintaining Fitness While Traveling

1. Remain Active Throughout

Traveling by automobile, train, or airplane can require extended periods of sitting, which is detrimental to one's health. Facilitate physical activity while traveling by consistently donning running or walking shoes.

If time permits or you experience a delay while flying, it is advisable to stroll through the airport terminal instead of remaining seated at the gate. On occasion, while traveling by train, pass through the carriages. Breaks while traveling should be used to exercise.

2. Walk Everywhere

Forego the transport, train, or bus and travel on foot! To travel is to investigate. Little of that is possible while confined in a moving vehicle. Get out there and you’ll uncover so much more on foot. A eccentric lane might capture your eye, and before you know you it, you’ve found an extremely adorable emporium or an outstanding restaurant. You won’t get that in any travel guide!

3. Sightseeing run

Forget the segway or the hop on/hop off bus, get up and go for a morning run, you’ll see all the sites with fewer tourists around and you’ll be able to appreciate the view more.

4. Do Yoga

The benefits of practising Yoga are infinite, but when it comes to travelling, it will leave you feeling energised. Not to mention that after all the strolling you’ll be doing you’ll need a thorough stretch!

Do a routine either in the morning to help revitalise your body, or at night to ensure a decent night rest

5. Take the Stairs

Climbing stairs is excellent for the heart and building strength, you can either do this inside or outside.

Maybe you have staircases in your hotel or there’s a famous monument with masses of stairs. Set a time limit (20-30 min is recommended) and run up and down those bad guys as quickly as you can!

For increased injury, do them in a “suicide” manner. Head up the first flight, then back down, then back up to the second floor, and back down…working your way all the way to the summit. Hello constricted buttocks!

6. Take a Hike

One the greatest experiences you can have abroad is experiencing the great outdoors and seeing what nature has to offer, and what better way than going on a trek!

You chose the degree of difficulty, both in distance and terrain traversed. Maybe challenge yourself like I did when I hiked Trolltunga and in Yosemite National Park, my most memorable travel experience. Hiking is so much fun, that you’ll forget you’re even exercising, or at the very least, it’ll distract you.

7. Check Out Local Parks and Trails

Ask the hotel staff about safe nearby routes for walking or running. Go and experience the vast outdoors through the eyes of a local.

8. Bike it

Some locations are designed for cycling, *cough* Amsterdam *cough* Copenhagen *cough*, so rent a cycle and go explore. Even locations like the Costa Brava you can go cycling between each historical settlement. You’ll be able to see so much more of the area you’re visiting this way. When your plans involve visiting something a few kilometers away, elect to make it a cycle excursion rather than by traveling by motor vehicle.

9. Do a Hotel Room HIIT Workout

Hotel doesn’t have a gym? No concerns, sweat it out in the comfort of your hotel room with an HIIT routine. HIIT, or high-intensity interval training, is a training technique where you give one hundred per cent effort through fast, intense spurts of exercise, followed by brief, sometimes active, recuperation periods. This form of training keeps your heart rate up and consumes more fat in less time.

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10. Join in Local Activities

Fancy salsa dancing in Spain? Or tango in Latin America? Be daring and attempt something different abroad, from Chinese martial arts to line dancing, try something that will enrich your cultural experience.

If all else fails, join the residents playing a friendly game of soccer in the park.

11. Go on a Walking tour

Take a free walking excursion or do a self-guided tour, ranging from 1-5+ hours. This is a wonderful method to build up your steps without thinking about it. I’ve done a number self-guided excursions here in London, and San Francisco and discovered all types of wonderful locations.

12. Go to the Beach or Do Watersports

For minimal impact exercise swimming lengths is always an amazing full-body training. sprinting on the shore in the sand is a fantastic endurance exercise which you can make even harder by sprinting through the water. The sinking sand and water resistance will create more intensity.