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By: Laura Peill – (Check out her blog Chronicles of Passion & Facebook) 

It's hard to stay healthy while travelling. It’s one thing to go on vacation and take a break from your workout routine and indulge more often in your meals. That's a must every now and then. After all, you're only human. But it’s different if you travel for work and are always on the road, where it becomes a constant battle of figuring out how to stay healthy and stay on track in foreign languages, different time zones and unknown city streets.

Here’s 10 things you can do to stay healthy while you travel:

Walk everywhere – When time allows, put on your walking shoes and get going! Forget about taxis, buses and trains, just start walking. Not only will you see more of the city, but you will get some exercise at the same time. Invite your colleagues along and see if you can even take one of your meetings on the road and talk about business as you soak in the sights of the city.

By: Bethany Barich (Follow on Instagram & Twitter) 

Pilates – you either love it, or you hate it. Personally, I’m in the middle. I can sit here and brag all day about how much I think Blogilates is amazing, and Cassey Ho is a lifesaver in regards to helping me shed fat. However, I will never be caught in a Pilates class because I’m that person who struggles, and screams from frustration, during half of the poses.

Pilates has some fantastic benefits, though, that make it worth those struggles and screams.

One of the top reasons to get out there and try Pilates is because it’s a killer core worker – which is why this article is happening.

Pilates also is nice for easing back pain, loosening our joints, improving our performance in sports, and making us more flexible. Let’s get back to that first reason, though, the core strength. Having core strength is great for endurance, keeping balance, doing yoga, and we end up feeling great because we look good naked. To achieve all of those benefits of having a hardcore core (ha, see what I did there?), let’s take a look at five of the best Pilates moves for our abs.

The Hundred

There are a lot of variations to this pose, but no matter how you do it, you’ll have burning abs by the end. You can start with your legs on the ground and bring them up as you curl, or you can bend your knees at a tabletop position if the pose is too difficult at first.

By: Laura Peill – (Check out her blog Chronicles of Passion & Facebook)

I have a confession: I don’t have a gym membership.

In fact, I haven’t for over a year now. Initially it was because I was travelling and moving countries and wasn’t in a place long enough to get one, then it was because I didn’t have a lot of extra funds to spend on one.

But now it’s because I’ve figured out how to be fit without one. It helps that I’m a runner, and that covering 80-100 km per week keeps you pretty fit. But over the last little while I’ve focused on other fitness (i.e. more than just cardio), and figured out that I am doing just fine without the monthly $200 expense.

Here’s how you can do the same.

By: Bethany Barich (Follow on Instagram & Twitter) 

Need help falling sleep? Is there a lot of stress weighing you down, whether from life or work? Don’t worry. There’s a yoga solution for that. Even if you’re a complete beginner the moves being listed below are sure to help you feel less stressed, and possibly help you with sleep.

Here are 5 yoga poses to help you wind down and relax: 

Child’s Pose

The most basic of yoga poses, and yet, child’s pose does wonders. If you’re not sure how to get into child’s pose - simply get on your hands and knees, relax your body down onto your thighs, rest your forehead onto the mat, and either place your arms out in front of you (straight forward) or have them reaching behind you for some shoulder release. In general, child’s pose is perfect to do in between challenging yoga poses and is a great stretch for your spine. It opens the hips and your back, and is sure to help with calming any stress you have and prepping you for a nice evening or deep sleep. 

By: Laura Peill – (Check out her blog Chronicles of Passion & Facebook)  

You know you’ve done it: you’re running late in the morning because you slept through your alarm and don’t have time to make breakfast. You stop at the coffee shop on your walk to work, grab coffee and a muffin and slump into your chair at the office. The lack of breakfast has left you starving by noon, but lunch prep didn’t happen this morning, so you get a take away Pad Thai at the Asian restaurant next door. You end up working late, and by the time you get home, are far too exhausted to think about dinner and you call for a pizza delivery instead. By the end of the day, you’ve eaten take out for every meal. Or even just for one meal... even that's not ideal if you're trying to get healthy or even lose weight.