Traveling for work is hard, and maintaining any sort of normal, healthy lifestyle is even more difficult. With the constant eating out, entertaining clients and sleeping in new beds you are left worn out, craving comfort foods and with no energy for exercise. If traveling for work and entertaining clients is a big part of your job, then you need to make it sustainable with your lifestyle. Stop…
Traveling? Don’t Forget To Take Your Fitness & Health Habits With You!
by / ⠀Health & Fitness• Travel / February 26, 2014As young professionals or entrepreneurs, our lives may sometimes be consumed with conferences, networking events, or other activities that require a lot of traveling. I understand the feeling of being tired and hopping off a plane, into a hotel room, and then moving straight into consecutive conferences day after day. This means that time is limited for a gym session, especially if you are arriving back to your…
Deconstructing an Awesome Morning and How to Achieve One
by / ⠀Entrepreneurship• Health & Fitness• Travel / February 18, 2014This past January I had the opportunity to travel to Costa Rica for the second time with Matt Wilson and the Under30Experiences crew spending 6 awesome days in the Costa Rican rainforest at Rancho Margot learning about sustainability, self-sufficiency, intentional community development, organic agriculture, and holistic lifestyle practices. Rancho Margot is a world class eco-lodge located in the middle of the jungle where you learn to appreciate the…
Staying fit and keeping up with daily workloads are two distinct missions, but they are actually linked more closely than casual observers might think. The truth is, eating right and adjusting certain behavior leads to fitness-friendly approaches proven to enhance performance and productivity at work. If you are struggling at the workplace; running out of steam before the workday ends, challenged to concentrate throughout the day, or feeling…
Obesity is a disease in both diet and lifestyle. People who are overweight tend to forget that eating the right amount of food and the right kind of food is crucial to preventing obesity as well as cure it. Obese people often think that in order to be healthy they need to eat more but our body does not work that way. Eating too much is unhealthy. This…
4 Fitness Secrets of Ripped Entrepreneurs
by / ⠀Entrepreneurship• Health & Fitness / February 11, 2014Most entrepreneurs, especially during the starting phase, ignore health and fitness. During the first two years of your company, one ends up clocking supremely long stressful hours, wondering day and night about the success and survival of their journey, missing out on health and fitness. I am an Entrepreneur; I run a successful seed-funded start-up with more than 20 employees, in its 3rd year. During these 3…
No matter what technological advances come out to make our lives more efficient and effective, we seem to have less and less free time in our daily lives. With the daily responsibilities of being a parent, it seems nearly impossible to consistently make time for the gym. But don’t worry; there are exercises you can fit into your existing day that can be surprisingly effective. If you want…
5 Tips for Living a Healthy Startup Lifestyle
by / ⠀Entrepreneurship• Health & Fitness / January 28, 2014The startup lifestyle can be grueling. If you’re not careful, it can take a serious toll on your physical and mental health. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a CTO, a programmer, or work in a nontechnical capacity; everyone needs a startup survival strategy to help them maintain their work-life balance as they learn to juggle an ever-growing workload, excessively long days and a personal life. It can be…
Parents and teachers often tell us to eat well and get lots of sleep in order to succeed in school. I used to think that it was a whole load of codswallop but upon getting older, I’ve realized how true it really is. To do well at work and to stay focused, we need to eat the right things. Smart eating habits result in a strong brain and…
How a Light Switch, and other Household Items, Can Help You Lose Weight
by / ⠀Health & Fitness / January 14, 2014When I was 19, I could eat whatever I wanted and not worry about the intake of calories. Fast-forward a couple decades and those “glory days” are long over. However, losing weight isn’t as difficult as it may seem. Even common household items you have in your house right now can help you burn calories and lose weight without ever hearing the dreaded word “diet”. Below are…