Vacay Vibes- How to stay healthy and energized while living your best life! (Australia/Fiji Trip Recap)
In today’s episode I thought it would be really cool to do a little recap of the trip that Jamie and I just went on to Fiji and Australia.
- This was a really fun trip, so if anyone listening to this ever decides to go to Fiji or Australia, listening to this could give you some good ideas.
- Also, as a trainer I hear about the challenge that a lot of our coaching clients and gym members have when traveling and not knowing how to navigate this time away from home while still chasing goals.
- So this episode is meant to give you some tips and strategies that we actually do ourselves when traveling in order to have an enjoyable trip and not have to feel like you are starting over with your health goals, back at square one, once you get home.
So what are the big take-away action items that we thought were important Avoiding falling off all the way, with tiny decisions that add up.
- Movement: Be intentional with light movement throughout entire trip. We didn’t do a single “workout” once but we for sure got our steps and used our bags as resistance training.
- Walking in the airport instead of sitting
- Mobility before and during long flights
- Fiji and Hamilton Island cart option or walk
- Bus/Taxi or is it walkable. In Fiji there was a long strip that had a trolly, we didn’t take that once.
- Hikes for fun events (bonus, most people don’t do this when on vacation so you’ll likely get secluded epic views). We actually planned the blue mountains as a key part of our trip. Other Activities like snorkeling, swimming, hiking, zip lining and fun activities like that.
- Freedom to walk after every single meal
- Stairs, hills,
- Carried our own luggage everywhere
- Nutrition
- Understand that alcohol is most likely going to be a part of this trip, stop feeling guilty and minimize damage with planning.
- Move your body post alcohol binge, help the body use the alcohol as energy as soon as possible to clear the poison from your body
- Get the good stuff! Enjoy slowly and mindfully. Alcohol and food. We stuck with wine and seltzers (avoided those big sugar bomb cocktails)
- Longer trips, choose some days to wait until dinner to drink
- Water! Carry a water bottle and constantly drink to avoid dehydration of body and tissues. Alternate alcohol with water. Sydney had cool water refill stations
- Protein! Snacks and meals.
- It’s okay to fast if only access to trash like airport or gas station food.
- Jamie cooked two meals in the bungalows. Saved money, healthy foods,
Some other notable things we did for our health were:
- We took a probiotic (SEED) supplement which helped with travel stomach stuff.
- Still did our best to stick to our nighttime routine (watched something funny, did something relaxing, turned the lights low). Tried our best to sleep and wake with the sun. Even though our circadian clocks were way off what they were use to… we still had that routine that helped to put us into a state of sleep that we were used to which helped us get better quality sleep than we would have had we gone completely different what we were used to.
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