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Bodyweight Exercise for the Business Traveller

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Many business travellers lack a good fitness routine and a healthy lifestyle. They bloat due to irregular diet and unmonitored fatty high-calorie intake. Typically, they become obese or mildly overweight since they regularly eat in the restaurants. Their eyes become puffy due to jetlag. Their posture becomes abnormal due to sitting long hours in a chair.

Hotel fitness centres or regular visits to the gym can be time consuming, tedious and too monotonous. Business travel schedules are always short of time and too hectic to waste a single minute waiting for equipments or gym slots to free up.

The solution to this kind of a busy lifestyle is bodyweight exercise. This exercise routine is realistic to fit into the busiest days also. These exercises can be completed in a very short span of time. This does not require fancy equipments or any membership in fitness centres. Hence, you do not need to carry portable or heavy equipments in addition to the luggage you have.

You may not even require a dedicated room for this purpose. All you need is a floor area to do the stretch outs and a little knowledge of how to perform these simple exercises.

The best bodyweight exercise routine is called Circular Strength Training way, popularly referred to as CST. Unlike linear exercises which utilize only about 2 degrees of freedom, these set of exercises moves your body in all the 6 degrees of freedom in just a single session. Typically, CST exercises make you heave, sway, surge, pitch, yaw and roll. You would be able to complete the set of exercises within 20 minutes. Hence, this system is very efficient as all movements are conditioned uniformly.

CST is even better than functional fitness exercises which utilize 3 degrees of freedom for the body movements. Hence, it is becoming very popular among the fitness freaks, health conscious people as well as sportsmen and sportswomen. It helps you enhance your performance levels as it offers complete fitness approach while exercising.

CST approach gives top priority to improving the general health unlike functional fitness exercises which improves speed, endurance and strength.

People who are beginners to these exercises generally experience a lot of gain with the routine. Weightlifting professionals gain flexibility and incredible strength in the joints. People who want to look trim are sure to achieve the lean structure of their choice. This exercise regimen helps you to lose weight, gain energy and flexibility in various parts of the body.

If you have not been exercising in the past or lost touch for a while, you need to go easy for the first few days. For a start, perform only 3-4 exercises. Then try increasing the number by mixing up different combinations of exercises on different days. Handstand push-ups and one leg squats will help you gain a lot of stamina. Waist turning and back-bending exercises give you the required flexibility.

As a rule of thumb, before you start an exercise regimen, consult a general physician to take an account of your fitness quotient as well as a fitness expert to gain the initial guidance to do the exercises the right way.