4 Ways To Keep To Your Fitness Regime While Travelling

In the eyes of many dedicated fitness enthusiasts and athletes, travelling is a challenging and arduous task.

For them, the idea or thought of travelling itself is accompanied by a strong feeling of reluctance. This reluctance is not due to a fear or hatred for travelling. It’s due to a fear of compromising their workout regime.

Yes, fitness is a strict discipline. In order to see success, your priorities have to be set straight and you have to make certain compromises somewhere. Thankfully for you, there’s no need to compromise on forgoing travel for this cause because there are many ways in which you can keep in-tune with your fitness regime even when you are on the move.

Depending on the person, a fitness regime can have multiple objectives. One of the common fitness objectives is to gain muscle and lose fat. To do so successfully, managing one's diet is extremely important. And, that's precisely one challenge that travelling poses on individuals.

Travelling is synonymous with fun. And fun isn't a synonym for discipline. In fact, fun and discipline do not go hand-in-hand. Hence, maintaining one's fitness regime while on travel is as much a mental task as it is a physical task.

Suddenly, there's no gym for you to complete your workouts in. Your regular jogging trail is history. You may not even get time to jog. There's no kitchen, no fridge, and you literary say goodbye to the food that you specially prepare for yourself at home to adhere to your diet. And maybe, jet-lag proves to be your nemesis and disrupts your perfectly sound sleeping cycle.

This is not a nightmare. This is just a glimpse of how disrupting travelling can be to one's fitness regime. But yet, all's not lost. We are innovative creatures and when presented with a problem, we come up with multiple solutions.

Athletes are constantly travelling. Do you think they are unable to stick to their regime? Of course not. The 4 best ways to enjoy the experiences of travel while not compromising on your fitness are illustrated in the next few slides:

1. Get your packing right.

Canned Vegetables And Fruits

It all starts with the packing. One of the greatest problems that travelling poses is that you cannot carry along all that you own.

You have to be selective in what you take with you and what you leave behind. Baggage space is limited as it is and when one has to account for their fitness regime, packing gets all the more hectic.

You know your regime best and hence, it's best if you decide what to carry and what to leave behind. Create a checklist of a sort to ensure that you do not forget something important.

Maintaining a healthy diet and ensuring the right amount of calorie intake while travelling is difficult. However, there's a separate checklist to help you deal with that problem. The items that you will need to maintain your nutrient needs while travelling are given below:

1. Cutlery
2. Portable grill (if possible; allows you to eat healthy-grilled food)
3. Canned food (to meet your nutritional needs on the go)
4. Dry foods (protein-rich, if possible)
5. Basic, portable workout equipment (dumbbell, stretch rope, skipping rope etc.)

2. Reduce Meal Frequency (if needed).

Reduce Meal Frequency To 3-4 Meals A Day

One critical aspect of a fitness regime is gaining muscle and loosing fat simultaneously. Generally, on a normal day, if you are trying to gain muscle and lose fat, you should be eating around 6-7 meals a day.

While travelling, it would be wise to reduce your meal frequency. The main reason for doing so is that if you focus on having 6-7 meals a day while travelling, you will not have fun.

It's going to reduce the amount of time that you have allotted for sightseeing and doing other such fun stuff. As a result of which, at the end of the day you will be left frustrated with yourself and your holiday.

The solution?

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Focus on reducing the number of meals that you take but ensure that each meal that has high-calorie content. Some people like to call this ‘flexible dieting’.

3. Keep track of your protein intake.

Tracking Protein Intake Using Mobile Applications

Perhaps it's getting a little repetitive but food plays a very important role in one's fitness regime.

If you are serious about gaining some mass and muscle, protein-rich food should be your bread and butter. Read up on protein, identify the foods that are rich in protein and master a dietary plan accordingly.

Ensure that you consume the right amount of protein in accordance with your body weight. Overconsumption of protein can have a serious detrimental impact on your fitness regime. Excess proteins get stored in the body as fat.

Everyday, especially while travelling, you have to track your protein intake religiously. The fitness norm indicates that you have should 1g of protein intake for every pound that you weigh, daily.

Monitoring the exact amount of protein intake manually is difficult.

Instead, it is wise to use smart mobile applications that help you monitor your daily protein intake. An example of one such mobile application is MyFitnessPal but there are many more such mobile applications. Just find one that you find easy to use.

4. Change your workout regime a little.

Don't Be Afraid To Change Your Workout Regime

Generally speaking, people don't like to change too much. Ask them to change their fitness regime and you will actually be able to see the look of scorn slowly appear on their face.

Yes, it's annoying but it's also critical to make the change in accordance with your travels. While you are travelling, you need not stop working out if you can make the change.

If there’s a gym close to where you are staying, nothing like it. You can go ahead doing the same workouts that you did at your gym or at home. If there’s one in your hotel, then that's even better for you.

But gym facilities aren’t available everywhere. When there's no gym nearby, just change your workout to something that you can do easily in any room without the need of any major equipment.

Try working out before meals and try to fit in a high-intensity cardio workout into your regular workout.

That's how you marry your fitness regime to your love or need for travelling.