Originally published August 17 2005
Companies offer workouts to busy travelers
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
People's busy lifestyles have led to a faster way to get fit, including workouts while you are flying and treadmills in hotel rooms.
Whether we're traveling for pleasure or for business this summer, there's never been such a terrific availability of options to sneak fitness into the day.
We're encouraged to do yoga on planes, run on treadmills in the privacy of our hotel rooms, even get a workout and shower at an airport gym during a long stopover.
During a recent trip to the East Coast, I read fitness instructor Michael Sena's advice on in-flight exercises in Hemispheres, United Airlines' magazine.
Like stretches for the shoulder and neck muscles, such as tilting the head from side to side and forward and backward, or gently shrugging the shoulders.
We can raise our feet a few inches off the floor, point and flex the toes.
Many airlines, including Northwest and JetBlue Airways, offer in-flight exercise advice via video or magazines.
But the boldest effort is from Song airlines, which last year began offering an $8 workout pack that includes a resistance band, small foam squeeze ball and workout instructions by personal trainer David Barton.
The kit might come in useful when you get to the hotel room.
At least three hotel chains - Westin, Hilton and Omni - give us the option of exercising in our rooms instead of going to the hotel gym.
At Hilton hotels, you can either upgrade to a "fitness guest room," which is equipped with a treadmill, or you can request that a treadmill be delivered to your room.
Select Omni Hotels offer "Get Fit" guest rooms equipped with a treadmill and a "Get Fit Kit," which consists of a mini-radio headset, a floor mat, two dumbbells, an elastic exercise band, an exercise booklet, chilled bottled water and hand towel.
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