How To Avoid Holiday Weight Gain

As a professional gym instructor, I often have clients asking
me, "Hey Chris, I am going for a holiday vacation, I am afraid
to gain weight during my vacation. What should I do to avoid
holiday weight gain?" or "I am going for my honeymoon and I
always gain weight when I travel, can you teach me how to avoid
holiday weight gain without ruining my honeymoon?"

Actually the answer to holiday weight loss or preventive weight
gain is a very simple. Just choose the holiday package with a
lot of physical activities. Instead of going to the traditional
tourist sight seeing trips, choose holiday activities that
require you to burn calories and yet have fun. Yes, you can have
a fun filled holiday and yet able to keep your weight in check!

Here are a few vacation holiday activities where you can have
fun and yet will keep your weight easily in control.

Holiday Cruise - Your first thought would probably be how could
you maintain your weight going on holiday cruises? It may escape
you that most vacation cruise ships have sports facilities built
in from tennis courts to gyms with full equipments and fitness
personal trainers to boot. Some may even conduct weight loss
classes on board the cruise liners. If you are going on a
honeymoon cruise, what better way is there to lose weight and
keep fit with your beloved spouse?

Winter Skiing - This is a no brainer. Skiing down mountain
slopes require a lot of muscle work, coordination, cardio
workout and flexibility. So can you imagine how many calories
you can burn during your skiing winter holidays?

Weight loss camps - Sign up with a weight loss camp for your
vacation. Weight loss camps are usually designed like a holiday
resort and are usually located in very scenic locations such as
on majestic mountains, pristine beaches or nestle in lush
tropical rainforests. You can get a vacation holiday in a resort
like environment and get to lose weight at the same time. Two
for the price of one, eh?

Scuba diving - Did you ever notice that most scuba diving
instructors have well toned muscles and attractive bodies? This
is because they scuba dive almost every day leading novice
divers sometimes up to 3 dives a day including night dives.

As a scuba diver and a former diving instructor myself, I know
that the sport of scuba diving can be physically demanding for
someone who is unfit and the activities burn a lot of calories.
For example, you need to carry your own scuba gear, climb up and
down the boats with heavy gear and at times swim against heavy
currents every day at the same time looking after your trainees.

On top of that, the tan you get from sun exposure gives you a
healthy glow and muscle toning illusion. So you want control
your holiday weight gain? Go on a scuba diving vacation.

Use your creative imagination to easily come out with more
holiday vacation ideas that can help you lose weight or at least
not to have that dreaded holiday weight gain.

About The Author: Chris Chew is a fitness personal trainer and
author of "Burn Fat Build Muscles Fast". More free articles at
his site and blog http://www.sgfitness.com and
http://sgfitnessonline.blogspot.com


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