We are right in the middle of the most popular period for people going away or just having time off work.
The big question is where do your workouts fit in during this time off, if at all?
Some people use this time off as time away from their workouts too. The more serious exercisers can be forgiven and even encouraged to be doing this, as measured time off from a tough exercise programme, can be very beneficial and often enables the individual to come back stronger after the time off.
For people who are just getting to grips with their exercise programme, time off may not be the best option, and consistency of exercise may be the most important thing right now.
If you are abroad on holiday, then swimming will serve as a very good exercise, especially when done with some intensity and purpose. Improving your swimming should be your goal, and 30-40 mins a day will help out enormously on both improvement and in terms of being a very good workout.
When it comes to running abroad, try and run in the cooler times, which means early morning and evening. This will make the conditions a lot more tolerable, and enable you to put in some decent efforts.
Try and avoid staying out too long in the sun full stop for all sorts of health reasons, please stay out of the danger zone in terms of over-heating your body.
When you exercise, try and make them shorter efforts, but having a real purpose will help an awful lot.
For example, if you had to do 10 thirty yard sprints up a steep hill, and that was it, then this is much more attractive than a 3 mile run in the intense heat, and probably far more beneficial.
These type of shorter, sharper workouts are more likely to get done and the best way to maintain your fitness.
Keeping an exercise programme up at this time of year, with increased heat and holidays happening is tough. In a couple of weeks time though, you will be very glad you did it!!
