JJ Virgin4x NYTimes Best Selling Author, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Fitness Hall of Famer

How To Stay Fit While Traveling

19 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment, JJ Virgin shares a concise, actionable framework for maintaining fitness while on the road. He emphasizes planning ahead by booking hotels that actually have functional gyms and verifying the equipment before relying on them. He advises bringing portable workout tools—specifically a TRX suspension trainer, resistance bands, and dedicated workout shoes—to enable full‑body training anywhere, from hotel rooms to outdoor spaces. Additionally, he encourages exploring the surrounding area for hiking or walking opportunities, turning local terrain into a natural gym. The overall message is a pragmatic, experience‑based approach to ensuring consistent exercise during travel.

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I plan ahead. So I always try to book hotels with gyms, and I actually will find out what they have in their gym because I've gone to enough of these places over the years that I've been duped where they go, we have a fitness center. First of all, if they have a fitness room, you know you're in trouble. But generally they'll say something and I go in there and it's like a broken treadmill, right? So what you want to make sure of is that you actually know what's in the gym or if there's a gym close by. And the other thing that I do is I travel with a TRX. Because I can throw that into a door jamb and I can work out anywhere. So you can travel with a TRX, you can travel with bands, and of course travel with your workout shoes because you can always go for a hike or a walk or whatever. What I like to do when I'm traveling is to look at what's around to see if I can try something new, especially if there's something like a great hiking area nearby.