This post was sponsored by adidas but all thoughts and opinions are my own.
Ryan and I travel a lot. In the last 6 months, we’ve been to The Bahamas, Georgia, Tennessee, The Mountains, The Beach, and so much more. Yet, we still manage to maintain a healthy lifestyle!
Well, It’s coming up on Spring Break time! And with warmer weather means more people will be traveling! It’s important to stay active and be conscious of your decisions if you want to keep fit.
Today, I want to share some of my tips to being healthy while traveling. You can do these too during your next adventure.
Active Excursions
Unfortunately, your gym most likely isn’t going to be in close range when traveling. Choose activities that raise your heart rate. Ryan and I try to add a hike into every trip we take. Hiking is a fun way to get some exercise while enjoying your destination. Just make sure you’re wearing the right attire! Like this track jacket. It definitely gets colder at higher altitudes. (I forgot about that in Nashville and was left freezing!) You can take it off if you get hot.Before your trip, check out Pinterest to help plan these activities. In Georgia, we went to the Botanical Gardens. While this may be the tourist thing to do, we also got a good work out in roaming the gardens!
Other fun ideas may be taking a guided city tour, dropping into a yoga class, or biking through the park!
Eating Out
During your travels, you may end up eating out a lot. Totally understandable! I love trying the local restaurants and getting a feel of the unique taste. Especially Georgia; there’s had so much delicious food!
But how do I not gain 15 pounds after all the trips I take? It’s easy! It’s all about balance and self-discipline.
If I know that night we are going to Tiff’s Treats for ice cream cookies, I’ll have a lighter breakfast. Or instead of going for the double mac with steak, I’ll opt for chicken with veggies!
Drink Water
With all the excitement, you sometimes forget to chill out and stay hydrated. It’s important to keep up on your water intake.
So, there are many different opinions on how much water you should be drinking every day. I’ve always heard about eight 8-ounce glasses a day (or 2 liters).
Dehydration can turn your trip into a nightmare. All your travel plans go down the drain and you’ll have to call it a day. Get a cool water bottle to carry with you on your trips. The adidas stainless steel water bottle will keep your drink cool throughout your explorations. Plus, the bottle includes a durable ring to latch onto your gear.
Walk Places
Last but not least, use your legs! Instead of taking the bus or uber-ing, try walking from place to place.
However, it’s totally understandable if you’d rather take a taxi when your excursion is thirty miles away. But if it’s only a 20-minute walk, go for it!
Walking from place to place will help you burn off lunch while also showing you more of the city! A 20-minute walk can seem exhausting or far, but can go by quickly when taking in the sights. You may even stumble across some interesting shops or cafes by taking the road less traveled.
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Nice advices, i travelled a lot, and in General USA and Canada have one of the most healtiest foods in the world.
We must keep walking to not gain more pounds, this is true, and i love Georgian food as well and Adidas jurseys ! Miam miam 🙂
Best wishes
Marouane
These are great tips. There’s nothing worse than being on an amazing vacation and catching the creeping crud.
So many great tips! We definitely do walk to a lot of places when we are traveling. Great idea about being mindful of what you are eating too. That fountain is gorgeous! Now, I want to travel to Georgia!
This is a great read! Always looking for tips to stay healthy while I’m away from my normal routine
Good tips,
Many people when travel they don’t pay attention about the healh. Thanks for sharing the post!
Without fail, I usually get sick when we are traveling. I always thought it was bad luck.
These are great tips! Because we walk so much when we go to Disneyland, we feel like it’s okay to cheat a little! It’s a good balance!
When we travel, we try to do a day of sight seeing so we can stretch our legs. A hike, a walk through a city, etc. It’s very effective!
All great tips! When I went to London, we did a TON of walking because they have public transport so while you use the underground, etc. you’re still getting a lot of steps in. I also like the idea of tours – that’s one thing I did in Nashville…a ghost tour!!
-Lauren
These are such great tips! When we go on vacation we always take tours or go sight seeing where we can walk. That gives us an excuse to indulge on the local food where we are vacationing.
I definitely need to take some of this advice! I used to walk so much while traveling but now I rent scooters whenever I can and find myself driving for even just a 2 minute walk.
It can definitely be difficult staying healthy when you travel a lot but these are great tips to focus on your wellbeing while traveling.
Such great tips – I always try to spend a lot of time walking whilst travelling – it is important to keep your activity levels up.
I love this blog! These re great advises. Will definitely do these when I go travel with my family.
Great tips and useful article, sometimes it’s hard maintaining fitness while on the go.
These are really great tips for one to stay healthy when travelling. I always like to do sight seeing, the walking helps when travelling.
These are such great tips. I tend to always overindulge when we go on vacation.
This is really good advice. Walking and staying hydrated are so important. The Adidas outfit it so stylish!
Staying healthy on vacation is so hard. These are such great tips, and we’ll come back here before our next trip.
Such an amazing post and very informative as well. Great advice especially to all those travelers, we need to be healthy in our travel days for us to enjoy the place and definitely the food.
These are some great tips! It’s easy to take everything to the extreme when traveling and on vacation.
When traveling it is very attentive to stay healthy. Those were great tips and can be very helpful to start a healthy way of living even if we are not traveling.
Definitely needed this today!!! Thank you for posting and allowing us to stay healthy during our travels. This is very important for me as I am traveling most of the time with my kids.
It’s even more important to stay active during this period. Besides being good for your overall health, exercise can help you get rid of stress and forget about your worries for a while. by the way great post.
Awesome tips about being healthy while traveling. It is extremely required to follow a routine away from home else the fun of travel gets lost.
Nice idea for the spring break.
will try to add it to my routine for d spring break
It is definitely important to stay healthy when you’re traveling. This is some great information.
It’s such a great thing when you can travel like this. Very awesome. I agree with your tips it’s easy to enjoy a vacation and still be healthy and fit.
These are great tips here! No body wants to be sick especially while on vacation!