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When the word training is mentioned most people create a picture of long torturous hours of boredom on a treadmill in the hotel gym but in reality, the word training is quite general. Starting to lead a healthier lifestyle while travelling could include a multitude of different activities from including a daily walk in a nearby park, using any time off to go hiking or finding out where a nearby swimming pool is and going for a swim before your work day starts.

The idea is to just start doing something that you find enjoyable that you will keep doing or can build on. Are you on a business trip with a colleague that is also trying to work on improving their overall health? It’s much more motivating having someone to “train” with.

I think the general misconception people have is there isn’t enough time to train when on a business trip. People assume it will take an hour plus to do something constructive. Time is the most common excuse I hear for why people don’t train and hey, in some situations there really might not be enough but ask yourself honestly, do you have 15 minutes’ spare at some point during your day to do something in the room?

Training is one part of improving your overall health. The body was designed to move and we don’t move it enough. When we don’t move your bodies, we adapt to lack of movement, we start working in narrower ranges and loose some of the amazing function we were born with.

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Try and do something every day. This can be something as simple as a walk somewhere. Or on the other hand could be a challenging workout

Get outside and into the fresh air (if where you are on business has fresh air to get out into) The thought of being stuck on a treadmill in a gym doesn’t appeal to me much either.

I prefer to keep my training short but intense. There a multitude of benefits to this but one of the biggest when it comes to business trael is you don’t need much time

Do things that use the whole body where possible. I’m not a fan at all of machine training. Machines do all the stabilising work for us and most of the time involve sitting down. We do enough sitting down in life already without trying to make it part of our workout.

As an example being on planes a lot I see people all the time having quite a heavy bag on the floor that they need to pick up, rotate their body 180 degrees then lift the bag into the overhead bin. Would it make more sense for that person to include into his workout some rotational exercises maybe with a lunge or and squat or maybe some squat and press work using a combination of upper and lower body working together?

Bodyweight exercises are great and just using your body without any equipment can be extremely challenging. The majority of the exercises in this database are bodyweight related using no or minimal equipment. I guarantee you’ll feel it!

Its easy to challenge the body by standing on one leg. This will start improving our balance and the way the central nervous system responds to daily events.