Exercise and travel can work

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Virtually everyone allows travel to be an excuse

Heading home to Disney World this morning. Up at 4am with an hour before the cab arrives to get me to a 6:19am flight to Memphis. Know what this means? No run, no exercise. There was none yesterday either. Professional speakers are usually the first in the classroom and the last to leave.

But we have to figure it out. If we don’t, we’ll quit. So I ran two days ago in the morning before flying from Orlando to Missouri, making yesterday and today “rest days”. Perfect, creative plan to keep moving forward. Got it?

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I Planned On Two Days Of No Running, But Not Three

A morning run in Greensboro, North Carolina

Knowing and working with (and around) our personal habits is an overlooked exercise and wellness tip. Exploit our good habits, say focus and discipline. Mitigate our undesirable habits, say not planning ahead.

Knowing it was literally impossible, because of my travel and teaching schedule, to run for two straight days, I knew there was an opportunity yesterday morning….

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Exercise When Traveling?

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Greetings from Lowell, Massachusetts. Up here to give a couple speeches, to change the world.

Exercising when traveling is challenging. Agreed? It’s easy to cave in to the pressures that come with a busy, and unpredictable schedule.

To manage this, I plan my “rest days” to be part of, or all of the trip.  It doesn’t make things perfect, but it sure helps manage the guilt and pressure when you can’t exercise.

This is how it goes.  To be healthy you have to work at it. Sometimes it feels like a chore.  And sometimes it’s gloriously exhilarating.