Healthy Living: Tips for Best Holiday Training Routines
Dear Alice,
Today I would like to present you some tips for how to make your summer holidays both relaxing and enjoyable, but also dynamic and full with athletic activities, that will fill your daytime and why not your evening routines with a lot of energy and laughter.
Yes, I do like holidays just as anybody else. I like everything about them: I like the feeling they brought to my state of the mind when I pack my backpack for my next holidays, I like the marvelous days filled with new adventures I always like to discover, I like the calmness they brought to myself, I like the relaxation they invoke on my mind and on my body after the holiday is over. All in all: I like holidays!
But I do like my holidays also filled with dynamic activities, such as different types of sports, or only everyday routine activities, such as strolling and enjoying the wonderful landscapes. I like the mixture between relaxation and dynamics, I need this as part of my holidays to feel relaxed and refilled with energy. So here are some tips on how you can mix your relaxation activities with some athletic fun activities in your next summer holiday, tips that will not only train your body and muscles, but they will also relax you and improve your state of the mind and your health:
- Swimming. I am a big fan of swimming, so summer holidays at the seaside are the best opportunity for me to practice and to improve my swimming techniques and my swimming skills. The salty water is the most honest friend of swimming, and so it is always my best ally in improving my breathing swimming techniques. Try to swim about 20-30 minutes at least two times per day in the sea during your summer holidays, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. If the water is warm enough I always swim away from the beach till the allowance border. If the water is colder, I swim parallel to the coast. Just a hint: usually you should take your dose of swimming when the water is calm, but if there are some wind currents and you are trapped in one of them, I always swim parallel to the coast until I am out of the current, and then swim back to the beach.
- Snorkeling. This is another great water sport activity, I discovered recently and which I do enjoy. A lot! Try to go snorkeling at least once per day for like an hour or an hour and a half. More than this, you will probably not last, even if the water is warm enough (like 26 degrees Celsius; I always become cold when snorkeling after about 60-90 minutes). And do use the snorkeling fins for this, and the complete snorkeling equipment. The fins will in particular train your legs muscles in a very intense way.
- Strolling. This is recommended as often as possible. I like to stroll for like 1-2 hours in the evenings after eating. It is both relaxing and enjoyable (the evenings are different at the seaside as in the city), and it is a way to digest your dinner as well. Sometimes I also complete some training routines (just as the ones in the pictures below). But strolling is also a great way of exercising during the day. I could stroll for hours and enjoy the wonderful scenery and landscapes. So have fun while strolling!
- Selected fitness and cardio training routines. Try to practice this in the morning before breakfast for like 15-20 minutes at an interval of 3-4 days during your holidays. You will start your day in a very alert way.
- Any other type of sport activity. This could be any type of water sport activity, such as kayaking, jet skying, parasailing, going to a water-park or diving. Or any other type of sport activity, such as running, biking or hiking.
So that is about it, all my tips concerning the best holiday training routines. Try to apply them if you can in your holiday to stay fit and healthy, but more important try to enjoy your holiday in the best way that applies to you!
Sincerely yours,
Madalina
