Tools and guides to help you and your family get, and stay, travel fit.
Maintaining a healthy weight, flexibility and a functional level of fitness can really help you travel better.
Being Travel Fit will make a lot of things easier and take away some of the stress of travel.
But, in today’s world it isn’t always easy to get and stay fit. Especially with the additional demands of raising a Neurodivergent family.
To help with that, and to help with our own fitness goals, we’ve developed a number of easy to use tools and simple guides to get Travel Fit.
Tools and guides that we use everyday to help us, and they will help you too.
What is Being Travel Fit
Being Travel Fit means you have the stamina and strength to do the trips and activities you want to on your holiday.
This could be simply walking around exploring, it could be rushing from ride to ride in theme parks, and it could be kayaking down a river followed by a long hike. Everyone’s needs are different and the level of fitness you and your family need to be at is a personal choice based on what you want to do.
However, there are a few basics you should start with:
You can fit comfortably into an airline seat.
I’m not talking leg room here but the ability to seat in a single airline seat and not require an extender belt or needing to purchase an additional seat.
If you or another family member doesn’t fit, this will add a lot of stress, worry and cost.
You can walk for an hour at a good pace
Being able to walk for an hour at a good pace is a really good barometer for base fitness and will show that you can explore a city, make it from one gate to another in the airport, and generally cope with the usual demands of travel.
You can play with your kids without getting quickly out of breath
This last point is a biggy. You don’t want to miss out on valuable play with your young kids through fitness, which despite the challenges of modern life is something you can control.
If you find after only five minutes of play you start to feel out of breath then you will need to take some steps to help improve your fitness.
What isn’t Travel Fit
Travel fit is not what Instagram and Tik Tok shows you.
It is not having a ridiculously toned body or muscles that can only be achieved through living in the gym 24/7.
None of those things will actually help you travel better, they will just get you more likes on social media.
Travel Fit Motivation
Here are 30 inspirational travel fitness quotes to help motivate you to get started, or continue, on your journey to becoming travel fit.
Weight Management
Weight management is a everyday challenge and especially for Neurodivergent people with all the noise, demands and false information out there.
But, effective weight management can make a huge difference to you and your families travel adventures and life in general.
Additionally, I struggle a lot with weight management myself and have felt the difference it can make when it is working well and when it isn’t.
Lately, I’ve been taking a long look at what has worked best for me, what hasn’t, and what day to day challenges make it a struggle.
I’ve then taken that analysis and used it to develop these tools, articles and guides to really help me, and you, manage our weight effectively and not let it ruin our travel adventures.
Weight Management Tools
- Calorie Tracker – An easy to use, low demand calorie tracker that helps you keep track of your eating and support your weight loss journey.
- Weight Loss Push and Pull Goals – Push and Pull Goals are an excellent way to keep you motivated on your weight loss journey as they easily show what you want to escape or prevent by losing weight, while also showing you all the great things you will get for losing weight.
Weight Loss Guides
Increase You NEAT for Weight Loss
Learn more about what NEAT is, how it can help you lose weight, and 10 simple ways to increase your NEAT everyday.
Travel Fit Tools
Here are a number of easy to use tool to help you get and stay travel fit.
- Daily Fitness Tracker – Becoming and staying travel fit is all about making the right choices daily and we’ve created a simple tracker to help you make those choices and track your daily progress.
- Daily Walk Tracker – Walking is one of the best exercises for getting and staying travel fit, not to mention being good at walking helps you to explore all those exciting travel destinations. Also, take a daily walk is great for your overall physical and mental health.
- Daily Fitness Motivation – We all need a helping hand to stay focussed and motivated towards our goals, so here is a low demand daily dose of motivation that you can access. Every day is a new motivational message to help keep you on journey to becoming travel fit.