The Ultimate Workout Log: An Exercise Diary for Everyone

From the best-selling author of THE ULTIMATE WORKOUT LOG and coauthor of FITNESS FOR DUMMIES, FITNESS FOR TRAVELERS is an informative and entertaining guide for travelers who want to stay fit on the road.

It's tough enough to exercise regularly when you're at home. But when you're disoriented from jet lag, stressed out by business meetings, and daunted by unfamiliar or prehistoric exercise equipment, staying fit becomes an even bigger challenge. Suzanne Schlosberg, in conjunction with the American Council on Exercise — the country's top workout watchdog — tells readers how to stay fit, eat right, and feel great while traveling for business or pleasure. Schlosberg combines extensive resources with motivational advice from some of the world's busiest travelers to arm people of all fitness levels with the confidence, skills, and know-how to create their own travel fitness program. In this book, you will find

* More than 25 workouts for any location or situation

* Strategies for fitting fitness into your busy itinerary

* Resources for finding gyms, running routes, and pools around the world

* Guidance for creating your own travel workouts

* Advice for eating more healthfully on the fly

* Essential gadgets for the fit traveler's suitcase

Health and fitness experts agree that keeping track of exercise habits helps to improve performance and motivates people to continue exercising. The Ultimate Workout Log provides four pages per week to do just that, as well as space to note goals, accomplishments, and a weekly self-evaluation. The 30-page training guide and sidebar information educate and encourage with training tips, inspirational quotations, fitness guidelines, and drawings.

Modeled on the enormously successful Ultimate Workout Log, this essential twenty-six-week diet log can be tailor-made to any diet or eating regimen and ensures long-term results.

Experts believe that simply being aware of what you eat is half the weight-loss battle. Finally, the creator of The UltimateWorkout Log teams up with one of the countrys top nutritionists to bring us the tool we really need—The Ultimate Diet Log, a goal-oriented daily diary for tracking food choices, eating habits, and exercise patterns for anyone interested in losing weight, firming up, or just eating better.With its accessible, flexible format that can accommodate any eating plan, this indispensable new log helps readers chart their way through the four stages of food awareness to permanent weight loss—and improve their daily eating habits for life.

Features: 5-day initial assessment • 3-step plan to narrow the focus and set smart goals • 26-week daily diary • Exercise tips • Charts to track progress • and more

SUZANNE SCHLOSBERG is the best-selling author of The Ultimate Workout Log, The Active Womans Pregnancy Log, and numerous other books. She has written for Shape, Fitness, Health, Real Simple, and Weight Watchers, among numerous other publications.

Contents About the Authors ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part I: Adopting the Road Workout Mindset 5 1. Roadblocks: Overcoming the Top Five Travel Workout Obstacles 7 2. Fitting Fitness into Your Suitcase 19 3. Finding Gyms, Trails, and Pools on the Road 26 4. Eating on the Fly 42 Part II: Maintaining Your Cardio Fitness 59 5. Cardio 101 for the Traveler 61 6. Back to P.E.: Jumping Rope, Climbing Stairs, and Good Ol Calisthenics 72 7. Swimming Laps – and What to Do When the Pool Is Too Small 81 Part III: Staying Strong on the Road 91 8. A Travelers Strength-Training Guide 93 9. Demystifying the Hotel Multi-Gym 100 10. Dumbbell Routines for Any Occasion 114 11. Band on the Run: A Quick Tubing Workout 130 12. The Last Resort: Strength Training Without Equipment 141 Part IV: Stretching and De-Stressing 157 13. Essential Stretches for the Fit Traveler 159 14. Yoga You Can Take Anywhere 168 Final Thoughts 174 Appendixes 177 Travel Workout Log 179 Index of Exercises 189 Useful Web Sites for the Fit Traveler 190