Are you a fitness person?
Do you wake up and workout first thing or are you an evening athlete that likes to watch Netflix and tread?
It has been about 7 months since I started my new fitness habits and I have been much better for it. I follow a few fitness and health people I respect and above all else, I stick to my routines. After 20-25 days I was in a habit-forming pattern and then now, after 7 months or so, it has been about listing to my body as it feels weird not to workout, so if I need rest, I take an easy day. If I feel rested and ready to go, I go.
I am a person that is all about making things easy, habit-based, part of a system, and in the end, if I feel better after, then it’s the best thing for me. Fitness and working out have become two of those things. So, keeping the routine is not only better for my health, but the best thing for my daily performance as a person.
Historically I have left the fitness routine at home when I travel. Now, I have to make sure I keep up the routine for the consistency, feel, and daily benefit I get from the daily routine. Truthfully, I struggle at times to find a good place to workout when I’m traveling. I have traveled for work and for fun, but the same story plays out. It is definitely a fitness center grab bag each time I walk into the hotel. I stayed in one place where the hotel advertised having a fitness center, and when checking it out, the room was probably 12X12 with a tube TV and 2 machines and one of them being a tread from the 1990s, and a bald belt.
Is the gym good? Will they have a good treadmill? Is the space large enough?
Those are the questions popping into my brain as I consider places to stay when before that wasn’t even a consideration. I was more interested in the price, location, and king-sized bed. Well, I am old enough now to have a king-sized bed and a great fitness center to hit when I wake up!
During our last trip, my wife and I stayed at a new hotel in northern MI and it had one of the best gyms I have ever seen in a hotel. The tread was high quality and the weights and machines were top-notch. The space was flanked by a massive wall of windows.
So, when I travel from now on, I am going to take the extra 5 minutes and call ahead and ask about the gym onsite.
I love my fitness routine, so I think prioritizing the hotel price, bed size, with the gym quality is worth it.
Do you workout when you travel?
Jason A. Belt 