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Build a Strong Core and Arms With the Suitcase Walk
If you're looking to strengthen your core muscles as well as your shoulders and arms, here's a great move called the suitcase walk. Not only is it great for toning your muscles, but it can also prepare you for carrying your suitcase in the airport this holiday season. Here's how to do it:
- Hold a rather heavy size dumbbell in your right hand, between 15 and 30 pounds.
ExerciseTV: Post Flight Stretches
Travel much? Try these easy stretches for when you get off the plane. They will help revitalize your travel weary body by opening up your chest and shoulders.
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The Fit Traveler
I've said it before and I'll say it again, staying fit while on the road is tough.
Fit For Travelers ($14.00) by Eide is a great tool for anyone on the go. The book includes a free stretch, exercise band with a guide explaining and illustrating 20 exercises.
Fit Travel Tip: Inquire About Fit Amenities at Your Hotel
I recently took a trip out to Lake Tahoe and stayed at the Hyatt Regency there. I've always been a fan of Hyatt hotels because they tend to have great gyms and fitness programs for their guests. With its new StayFit program, most Hyatt gyms are open 24 hours a day so you can work out whenever you want.
Oh La La: TravelFit Paris
If you're lucky enough to be spending some time in the City of Lights this summer, you may find yourself indulging in some tasty pain au chocolat and vin rouge. This is great, but if you want to fit into all the très chic clothing you just picked up when you get home, you may want to check out this book before you travel.
The very first book in the TravelFit Guides series, TravelFit Paris ($10.17) is a great guide book for the fit and health-conscious traveler in Paris.
Fit Traveler: Hilton Garden Inn's Stay Fit Kit
Staying fit while traveling is important in keeping up your routine and staying with your exercise momentum. Luckily some hotels are making it easier than ever to workout while on the road.
The Hilton Garden Inn has created the Stay Fit Kit, which allows you to workout in the privacy of your guest room or in the fitness center.
Fit Traveler: Fitness Cruise
Needing a getaway but don't want to do something that will be counter productive to your fitness efforts? How about a cruise? No, seriously...
Fit Travel Tip: Wear Sneakers During Travels
Usually I try to dress up a little bit when I am traveling. My parents always made us dress up for plane rides, and it's one of those things that has stuck with me through my adult years.
Last weekend I broke my code and decided to wear sneakers and comfortable pants on the plane.
Fitness Travel Tip: Stretch It Out
For some of us, a vacation does not always entail hitting the gym for rigorous workouts. If your idea of a vacation is lounging around and relaxing, take it as an opportunity to work on your stretching. If feeling good is the goal of your vacation, I can assure you that 10-15 minutes of stretching will get you well on your way to feeling good.
Fit Travel Tip: Plan for the Weather
Good intentions of exercising while traveling can lead to less than positive results if you don't keep an eye on the weather changes.
During a recent trip to Florida, I brought all my workout gear with the high hopes of doing workouts on the beach during my vacation. On the first day I went out, I was exhausted and dripping with sweat within minutes and had to stop.
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