Business Travel and Working Out

A lot of it would depend on the type of hotel where you stay. Hotel gyms are helpful and if there's a good swimming pool indoors, even better! Eating is harder without kitchen facilities.

I travel exetensively for work and here's what has worked for me. First, I try to stay in a hotel that has larger rooms such as a Residence Inn. This serves two purposes: There is space to workout in the room with Insanity, and the in room kitchen so I can control what I eat. I hate hotel gyms (or gyms in general). Early in the morning those normally small places get crowded and there's no way I'd do Insanity in public since I tend to look like a rhino struggling under the effects of a tranquilizer dart.

As to protien powders, etc? My favorite is Met-Rx since it comes in individual serving envelopes. I pack enough envelopes in a gallon size zip lock bag incase one splits open in transit (so far has never happened). I mix it in a wide mouth Nalgene bottle using non fat milk stored in the room's full size fridge.

I also pack a couple days worth of exercise clothes. The hotels I stay in have DIY guest laundry so it is easy to have fresh workout clothing on hand. Hope this helps.

It depends on what you want from a gym when you're traveling. Hotel gyms tend to be mostly or completely cardio machines, rarely having a decent free weight set, so I don't use them unless I have to. However, if you are looking for largely cardio and machine work, they can be a great amenity.

Anytime Fitness and 24 Hour Fitness both let you use any of their locations. Anytime has a ton of locations but is concentrated in the South. 24 Hour is a national chain, but they only have around 400 locations total, so they aren't everywhere either. Planet Fitness is pretty national and If you will be traveling to the same areas pretty regularly, I would look into if either of those are located near where you'll be traveling. For me, Anytime is close to about 80% of my traveling, and the rest of the time I find a gym that will let me buy a day pass (usually run $7-$14) and use them.

Planet Fitness looks to be easy to find in almost every state and you can use any location with a black card membership, but they are also mostly cardio without a good set up for lifting heavy, so in that case, I'd save the $20 a month and use the hotel gym personally.

I crossfit, so I find boxes in advance near where I'm staying. If I know I have social dinners and things, I stay somewhere with a gym so I can workout there in the morning.

There are a ton of things online if you google "hotel workouts", but I'm not that motivated.

Any national gym chain may be good to look into. PF or if you know you'll be travelling to the same area a lot check out what's there.

I travel for work maybe once a month. I am usually jam packed during the day, so going out and finding a gym is a bit silly in my situation.

I typically do the 7 minute workout app (7 minute HIIT with nothing needed but a towel on the floor and a chair) on my phone- in my hotel room. I do 3-4 rounds of it, and that seems to be good enough for my travel needs. That way I just bring my sneakers, shorts and a sports bra and go to town.

I use Bluebonnet powder, and they sell individual packets that I travel with (I have found the TSA to be rather unhappy with a plastic bag of unmarked powder in your carryon).

I have also purchased a foldable yoga mat, and sometimes do YouTube videos on my ipad.

Besides the hotel gym, I check out if there is a YMCA nearby. Most YMCA provide daypasses for a small fee (not all, though--looking at you, San Jose). If your own gym is part of IHRSA, then check out if other gyms are part of that program. If so, they will allow to use their gym for a discounted rate.

I also check out community centrers, which usually have daypasses at a relatively low cost.

I'm Canadian so not too sure, but places in LA Fitness, 24 Hour Fitness and Planet Fitness are pretty much anywhere, right? Is getting a pass from one of those gyms worth? Can the gym membership perhaps be considered a business expense?

I also check out for local running groups or local running stores that may have group runs on the days I'm there. There is also something called November Project, which began in Boston but there are locations throughout. They do outdoor workouts at abnormally early hours and it's free.

There is an app called workout trainer by skimble. Download it. Its free and there are tons of bodyweight exercises you can do. It really pushes you. I use the app whenever I travel