Fit For Travel

Now, the travel tip that I am writing about today might seem obvious to most of you, but I thought I would write it down anyway...

On our way back to London from New Zealand we had four nights in Singapore, staying with a friend. My friend always books great places for us to go to when I visit, and this stopover was no exception. I'll write about the various places we went to including the spa treatment and champagne brunch in a few days.

I mentioned in a post back in January, that my friend was taking place in a boot camp challenge. The challenge has finished, but she is continuing to see a personal trainer 1-2 times per week in an attempt to get fit and lose a bit of weight. On Saturday I joined her for a one hour session prior to going to brunch.

As I usually only use the treadmill at the gym, I really enjoyed the PT session. The trainer had us jumping on boxes, doing planks, using medicine balls and then even took us outside into the super hot Singapore heat to flip 70kg tractor tires. We also did alot of squats.

Brunch was fun, then we spent the rest of the day in the pool back at my friend's apartment.

Then, the next morning I got up and could hardly move! Walking down stairs was agony and I shuffled along at a snail's pace in the huge downpour that we got caught in when we went out for lunch.

I still feel a bit sore now, three days later. I was lucky that the plane home from Singapore was only half full, so I was able to stretch out across several seats. I was also lucky that my husband was travelling with me on this leg of the trip as there was no way I could have lifted the suitcases, buggy and my little girl on my own in this state.

So, I just wanted to say that I don't particularly recommend partaking in any new activity that involves using muscles that you don't usually use just before hopping onto a 14 hour flight!

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