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I just spent an awesome 5 days in Tampa Florida attending fitness seminars with all the best fitness experts in the world.
No matter what level of fitness knowledge you think you may have, you always need to look and learn from other trainers and coaches to improve your mind and body. As the author of Dad Fitness, I still strive to learn and improve my knowledge to help others get the fastest results possible.
After spending 5 days hanging out with guys like Craig Ballantyne of Men’s Health and fitness icon Shawn Phillips, I started to pick up on some of the secrets these guys use to stay in awesome shape even while traveling.
So here are 5 Tips To Stay Fit While Traveling.
1. Workout No Matter What. After a busy 5 days of sitting on my butt in meetings and seminars I still managed to workout 4 out of the 5 days while in Florida. Which is even more than I workout at home!
The first day I got together with Rommel Acda of FitInAHurry.com, and Deb Froehlich of CelluiteCircuits.com and we trained together in the hotel gym. It wasn’t very big but had enough to get a great workout using our bodyweight and a few dumbbells.
Then the next day along with Craig Ballantyne of Turbulence Training we all headed to the local Powerhouse gym to get a great workout in a more upbeat gym atmosphere.
Wether it’s a quick hotel room bodyweight workout, a hotel gym workout or a Powerhouse gym workout, just make sure you do some exercise while traveling to offset all the sitting down on airplanes and in meetings.
2. All You Can Eat. The great thing about travelling to new cities is experiencing new places to eat. But if you’re not careful you could be paying the airlines extra weight on the way home, and I am not talking about your luggage…
So do what all the fit trainers did every morning to start their day off right; eat a nutritious breakfast. Even though our hotel served a FREE buffet breakfast every morning, most everyone who is in great shape skipped the bacon and breads and had a huge freshly prepared omelet stuffed with veggies with a little fruit on the side, me included. Keep lunch small with a salad or whole grain wrap so you don’t get sleepy during the afternoon meetings, and enjoy a nice dinner with some lean meat and veggies and even a glass of wine.
3. Drink Up. I don’t mean spend your nights at the hotel bar getting sloshed. I mean drink lots of cold refreshing water. It will keep you full and focused and your mind off the donuts and croissants sitting across the conference table.
It’s really easy to drink lots of H2O during these hotel conferences as they usually serve you pitchers of water in your meeting rooms and in the big conference rooms. Just to be sure you always have water on hand, pick up a couple of litres of spring water at the hotel gift shop and keep on ice in your room.
4. Ditch the Cab. If you are up for some sight seeing or heading to a nearby restaurant for dinner, ditch the cab fare, get some directions and walk there instead. Google Maps on your smart phone works great for this! Walking is a great way to see a new city and burn some calories. Strolling back to the hotel after dinner is a great way to end the evening and ease the guilt from that decadent dessert.
You can also try to find a park or gym a couple miles away and walk or run there to get your heart pumping and your warmup out of the way.
5. Recharge. If you’re traveling solo, staying at a hotel is a great way to get some extra rest and relaxation. You get the bed to yourself, and you have no worries of the kids jumping in the bed at the wee hours of the morning.
It’s also a great time to catch up on some work or read that book you have been trying to get through. A dip in the hotel pool and a hot sauna afterwards might be just what you need to recharge your batteries before you get back on the road.
So there you have it, 5 Travel Tips To Stay Fit so you’re wife still recognizes you when you get home…
How do YOU stay fit on the road? Let me know and leave a comment below.
September seems to be a busy month for everyone. Back to school, back to work and back to some serious workouts!
After talking with my buddy Craig Ballantyne of Men’s Health magazine I asked him to share his 5 best tips to help you guys get more energy to get through the busy fall season and here is what he had to say.
1) Go to bed and get up at the same time everyday.
2) Get 30-minutes of activity everyday.
3) Eliminate all added sugar from your diet.
4) Eat more fruits and vegetables and drink more water.
5) Drop the mega-caffeine coffee and switch to Green Tea.
Sounds simple eh? But it works!
So use those tips and have more energy….
PS.Craig Ballantyne and my buddy Chris Lopez just released a new Kettlebell Fat Loss home workout program called Kettlebell Revolution. I can’t recommend Kettlebell workouts enough if you want to get bodysculpting results in 10-20 minutes per day.
So don’t miss your chance on these powerful new home workouts – heck, you can even do them at the park.
Get your Kettlebell workouts here:
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Time to fight the fat this fall!
Do you have any other tips you would like to share to get more energy?
Post them by leaving a comment below.
If you are struggling to lose fat with cardio, I have great news for you. Men’s Health expert trainer Craig Ballantyne sent me these 4 interval training workouts to help you burn fat!
There are all types of ways to do interval training, and research hasn’t shown us a best way yet. There is NO best interval training workout for fat loss, however, some of my favorites are:
a) 1 minute on, 1-2 minutes off, repeat 6 times.
b) 30 seconds on, 90 seconds off, repeat 6 times.
c) 45 seconds on, 90 seconds off, repeat 6 times.
d) 20 seconds on, 40 seconds off, repeat up to 8 times.
Make sure to include a warm-up and cool-down after each.
And remember, you can use all types of interval training methods for these workouts.
You can do treadmill running, hill walking, stationary cycling, sprinting outside (if you do extra warm-up), kettlebell swings, medicine ball power woodchoppers, rope jumping, rowing, swimming, or even the elliptical machine (if you think it works).
One research study even used 8 seconds on, 12 seconds off for a total of 20 minutes, but these short intervals are almost impossible to do on regular gym equipment.
For more in-depth, step-by-step fat burning plans, visit:
Sean Barker, CPT
Learn the “The Truth On Fat Loss, How To Finally Lose That Beer Belly” in this FREE report from Sean Barker at www.dadfitness.com
Today I am coming to you from what some people call the big “TO”!
That’s Toronto by the way…the biggest city in Canada.
I am staying smack in the middle of downtown in the Hilton Hotel with a cool view overlooking city hall with the big Christmas tree and all the Christmas lights .
I wish my wife and daughter were here to share this with me but she is having a fun trip visiting her sister in New Brunswick. I will connecting with them on the trip home on Wednesday in Quebec City. Can’t wait to see them!
Yesterday I had an awesome day attending Day 1 of business meetings with all the top guys in the fitness industry like
Craig Ballantyne of Men’s Health & Tuburlence Training
Brad Pilon of Eat Stop Eat
Vince Delmonte of Your Six Pack Quest
Along with 6 other fitness professionals we all headed out to a nice dinner at Red’s Steakhouse. I would highly recommend it if you are ever in Toronto.
…and NO we didn’t all eat salads and chicken breasts!
We had a couple beers, appetizers, AWESOME steak and even a little dessert.
The SECRET to fat loss and getting the body you want while enjoying the foods you like to eat is this:
Do short intense workouts just 3 times a week, eat real healthy natural foods most of the time and when you feel like treating yourself go ahead and enjoy it!
…BUT the key is to get back to your healthy foods and Dad Fitness workouts the very next day.
For those of you who didn’t get to read this article in last month’s newsletter check it out in the second installment of my Dad Fitness monthly column on TheFatherLife.com
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Gotta go get started on Day 2 of our meetings!
Sean Barker, CPT
Learn the “The Truth On Fat Loss, How To Finally Lose That Beer Belly” in this FREE report from Sean Barker at www.dadfitness.com
Yes, you read that right. My wife took our 6 month old daughter Matea, packed her bags and left me!
…to go and visit her sister in New Brunswick for a week.
This is the first time daddy’s little girl will be away from me since she was born.
I certainly miss them both so much already. But was just talking to my wife and they arrived safe and sound which is what really matters.
As for me I will be heading out of town on Sunday to attend a weekend mastermind meeting in Toronto with Craig Ballantyne, Men’s Health expert and creator of TurbulenceTraining.com
It will be a weekend of networking with 10 other fitness professionals to enhance and grow our fitness businesses to help more people worldwide get fit for life.
No matter how much you think you know or what fitness level you may be at, always strive to learn more from the top experts in the health and fitness industry.
Don’t try and design exercise programs for yourself if you don’t have the experience and expertise to do so. Even myself as well as lots of the top trainers in the world look to other trainers in the industry to design exercise programs for them.
I also do the same every now and then and use workouts from other top trainers because they say the hardest person to design an exercise program for is YOURSELF!
Let me do the work for you and start using professionally designed fat burning workouts that are designed for busy dads.
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…Tonight I will be heading to a buffet dinner with some friends.
So I thought I would share with you an awesome tip when you are attending any holiday buffets this Christmas.
It’s actually from a great book called “Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think”
It’s called the Rule of Two. You can choose anything you want at the buffet, but you can never have more than two items on your plate. If you want to load it up with nuts and cake, go ahead. If you want to go back for seconds and load it up again with chips and carrots, go ahead.
Although this sounds like a recipe for disaster, it actually works quite well for people for three reasons:
- You tend to take the two types of food you want most. People who love desserts don’t work their way up to desserts. They’ll start with the desserts, and then stop.
- You tend to not overfill you plate. Putting only two things on our plate helps keep our serving sizes somewhat small because we psychologically don’t want to overload on a particular item.
- You tend to not go back more than two times. In one study did on the Rule of Two, 83 percent of people only made one or two additional returns to the buffet.
This morning I also had a great workout at the gym. It was short and intense and was a high rep day with short rest periods of 45 secs!
That’s it for today I am heading outdoors to start putting up our Christmas lights!
PS. If you feel like you ate a little too much yesterday and want to get back on track you can get your workouts instantly at DadFitness.com so you can burn off those extra calories.
…Or if you are like me and love the convenience of online shopping from the comfort of your own home the Dad Fitness System is just the thing to give to someone who is also a busy dad looking to get in shape in the New Year.
Sean Barker, CPT
Learn the “The Truth On Fat Loss, How To Finally Lose That Beer Belly” in this FREE report from Sean Barker at www.dadfitness.com