Traveling may be fun and interesting but also uncomfortable and exhausting sometimes. Besides it depends on whether you are traveling for your own sack or for business, your travel habits could affect your traveling experience as well as your health and body shape. For instance, if you travel is based on relaxing vacation, you could come back home with few more pounds and maybe even more tired. Generally, most of people imagine the best vacation by just laying down, eating lot of food and consuming more alcohol drinks. On the other hand, if you are traveling for business, you may not have time to eat and relax at all, so your body will be exhausted and metabolism will probably slow down because of unregular meals and sleep. Finally, your body is the reflection of your actions, so why not having a healthy and beautiful body along with good trip? Here are some of useful tips that could improve your travel experience and help you stay in shape and healthy even during traveling.
PLAN EVERY DAY
Did you know that many people are eating often from boredom or stress? If you have too much time during your day when you are not actually busy, it is very likely that you will eat whatever is available for you at that moment although you are not really hungry. The similar habit could happen in stressful situations, where people crave for food with hope they will feel better after eating. However, the true is that eating more than your body needs can make you feel only more depressed and deteriorate your health. Therefore, to avoid boredom and also stress the best would be to plan your days in ahead so you will have less time to eat unnecessarily and also avoid pressure for business or other stuff that make you nervous because a good plan of action will make you feel more confident.
MAKE YOUR SNACKS
Another advice, similar as planning activities, would be to make your own snacks in advance. Since you never know what food will be offered during your traveling, it is smart to always carry with you at least some small healthy snacks. That's can be whatever you want from packet of fresh fruit, nuts, muesli bars, or small sandwiches, everything which you could carry on your travel. In that way, you won't skip your meals, eat food you don't like or just spend too much money for food that you could prepare cheaper. Once you get adjusted to great benefits of homemade snacks to go, you will love it and carry with you wherever you go.
KEEP A GOOD BALANCE
Needless to say how difficult is to stay away from various interesting food and drinks that we face during traveling and at final destination. For example, people who are staying at hotel with all inclusive service have more temptations to overeat since many tempting food is available for them. Actually, we all love to try new food and drinks when we travel to new destination and that's completely fine but the moderation is the key of everything. If you want a delicious piece of chocolate for dessert, take it and enjoy but skip then one cocktail or increase your physical activity to keep the balanced organism and healthy body. Moreover, make sure that your nutrition doesn't change too much when you are away from home. Your body would be thankful to you for not stressing it additionally since travel is by self already sometimes stressful because of changing climates and daily routines.
MOVE MORE
Long trips can make your body so stiffed while decreasing also well blood circulation. To avoid that you should move whenever you can. For instance, if you are flying in airplane, go for a short walk every 45-60 min. Since in buses walking is not so feasible, then just stand up for few minutes in order to prevent too much swollen legs later. If you are driving a car, it would be easier for you to decide when to make breaks so take advantage of that and stop about every two hours to relax your body and brain from driving. Some light stretching is also recommended to practice during longer traveling.
WORKOUT ANYWHERE
When it comes to travel, working out is usually the last thing that will come to your mind. However, if you have a long break with training, you will may found even more difficult later to come back to your workout routine. In addition, you could lose little bit of shape you were working so hard to get so why then just not maintain your current fitness level? It is not necessary to spend most of time on your trip to train. Only you need is a good effective and efficient bodyweight workout that you can do anywhere from hotel room to the beach. This kind of workout is ideal for business trip when you don't have too much time for yourself. On the other hand, if you are on vacation and you have more time, then strive to stay physically active in various ways. In order to increase your activity level, beside usual workouts, you could go for a walk more by discovering new places, or trying new interesting activities. For example, on summer you can play volleyball or other sports at beach or try fitness classes in water, while in mountain, challenge yourself for skiing or some hiking in snow.
STAY HYDRATE
Keeping your body always hydrated is so important especially when you travel. Waiting to be very tirsty before drinking water is a sign that your body is already dehydrated what could cause you many health problems and impair your good mood. For instance, you can have hard headaches and sometimes even lose conscious. Your energy level would be also reduced so much that you could be more tired than usual. Instead of getting dehydrated and then trying to make it up with liters of water in short time, try to split your daily amount of water in small sips during all the day. When you travel, you will probably need even more water so never forget to carry bottles of water with you.
REST AND SLEEP
Beside being active, your body needs a well rest and sleep in order to stay fit and healthy. Although changing climates, nutrition, daily routines, and sometimes even excitement can disturb your sleep, you should try to rest as much as you can. For some people it is easy to fall asleep during traveling while others face difficulties to relax when they travel. If you are some of those who don't feel enough comfortable away from home, you should practice little routines that will help you to sleep well and relax wherever you are. Do something related to your sleep at home such as drinking tea, reading something, watching a movie or whatever that will remind you to your home night routine. During travel, you could rest and maybe even fall asleep by using little portable pillow to put behind your neck and listen to the relaxing music. By that, the time will pass faster and you may feel better.
Written by Tamara Arapovic
