Stairs: where the fat burning party is in a hotel near you.

Professionals of all ages travel more and more, making it extremely difficult to remain consistent with your workout plan.  Missing a week or a workout due to business travel is often an excuse to give up.  Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately, you no longer have an excuse.

On travel for business or pleasure, you may find yourself without your cozy gym or in a place where it's not quite safe to go for an exploratory run.  Being thrown from your normal environment and routine can leave you lost in terms of how to adapt your workout for the road.

Keeping it simple, there's one workout to be done, if you do any, when on the road.  That workout: running stairs.  Why do it?  It's a short workout (approx. 20 minutes), it's safe, and it naturally builds in interval running - one of the best ways to strip fat off your body.

What to do:

1. Determine how many floors to climb:  Beginners: 5 floors.  Intermediate: 8 floors.  Advanced: 15 floors.
2. Take the elevator to your starting floor.
3. Hitting each step along the way, head to the basement or floor 1 (this is your warmup).
4. Once at the bottom, you guessed it, head back up to your target floor taking two steps with each stride.
5. Repeat 4 times for the advanced level, 6 times for intermediate level, or 8 times if you are a beginner.
6. Once you hit your goal floor on your last interval, walk back down the stairs to floor 1, hit the elevator, and be sure to get a good stretch in before hitting the showers.

It can be very difficult to know how to adapt your workout routine as your schedule changes.  LeanDream offers free e-coaching and fitness consulting with its workout packages to ensure scenarios such as business travel don't impact your results.  Visit LeanDream today and you will be staring at a leaner, more confident you in no time, regardless of your demanding travel schedule.