How to Keep Yourself fit in Vacations?

Your family just decided to go on a cruise or may be spend sometime alone with each other. Are you worried, about missing your daily workout routine & Indulging too much and gain extra pounds?.

Vacations should be fun and fun can be increased if you keep yourself Fighting Fit. Some planning always go a long way.

Pre-vacation planning can help you and your family to stick to healthy lifestyle activities and enjoy their time off. Encourage them to research the following while making their plans to have a Fitness Vacation.

~ Is there an exercise area and swimming pool?

~ What additional recreational activities are available? - biking trails, inline skating, parks, walking/jogging paths.

~ Is there a fitness facility (YMCA, etc) nearby that services the hotel guests?

~ What kind of exercise clothes and accessories for planned exercise activities will be needed?

Plan at least 30 minutes 3-4 times a week for exercise (some of my routines take even less than 20 minutes). If driving long distances is part of the vacation - walk briskly for a few minutes at each rest stop. Walk briskly through the terminal during long layovers in your Fitness Vacation.

Rubber resistance bands or tubing for strength training during your Fitness Vacation.
Jump rope for cardiovascular exercise.
Pushups, squats/lunges, abdominal exercises can be done without equipment.
Stretch daily.
Sit down with your family/friends brainstorm ways to include fitness in their vacations. Do a "practice" vacation workout with them before they leave on their Fitness Vacation.
Write their workout on a log and encourage them to use it. Remember you can always use hotel/motel stuff to work out like box jumps on a bed (jump off the floor on the bed and jump down again etc) on the Fitness Vacation.

Last but not least, Keep track on what you are eating. Try to stick to good food habits. These are the tips that you can use even in your daily life. If you just keep these things in mind, you'll not gain any extra pounds or be out of shape.

Sapna Vyas Patel is Fitness expert and share her tips and techniques for fitness conscious people. If you want more fitness related tips then follow her on instagram.