“Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it”

— Steve Maraboli

MINDSET FIRST

The first step in being able to accomplish anything in life is to create the right mindset. If you don’t have your mind in the right place, then nothing will get accomplished. This is especially true for pursuing a healthier lifestyle when you are traveling. It is so easy when traveling to justify not exercising and a bad diet because there are plenty of excuses:

-You don’t have access to your kitchen to cook for yourself

-You aren’t going to have your normal gym to go workout at

-Your daily routine is different then at home

-There’s not enough time when traveling for work

The excuses can go on and on. The first step is to create a mindset that you will maintain the same healthy habits you have when you are at home (If you don’t currently have healthy habits at home then it is essential to start). Tell yourself that you can be just as healthy when you travel for work as when you are at home.

FOCUSING ON DIET

Another key element to maintaining a healthy lifestyle when you are traveling, as well as at home, is to remember the 60/40 rule, a healthy lifestyle is 60% diet and 40% exercise. There are plenty of ways to exercise when traveling for work, of which I will talk in more detail about in the future, but a healthy diet is extremely difficult to maintain when traveling.

The important thing to remember is that exercise isn’t the only thing to focus on. Your nutrition is the biggest part of staying healthy so the last thing you want to do is make excuses for a poor diet when traveling. Make nutrition the main priority and exercise the second priority.

My goal is to provide ways to maintain a healthy diet and methods to exercise when traveling. This advice won’t work though unless the mindset is there to follow through with it. So start by changing your mindset.