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Traveling during the holidays can cut into time spent at the gym, or time spent doing outdoor activities as forms of exercise. There are still ways to be active throughout travels to ensure workout routines don’t fall by the wayside, and the body remains healthy, fit, and active throughout all seasons. Below are some exercises and strength training workouts that can be done anywhere without access to a gym.

Exercise is the process of exerting muscles and systems of the body to change their physiological functions and processes. While this is part one, part two is how the body adapts to the stimulus, and how well it continues to function after the physical stress. To get the most out of any work out, every person must know strategies to follow after the activity is completed to fully reach the desired effect of the exercise.

Holidays can be a time of overindulgence with even the best efforts to stay on track with a diet or nutrition program. But overindulgence, or even minor indulgence, doesn’t need to derail a nutritional regimen completely. Follow these steps below to recover from holiday parties and occasional overindulgences.

It’s often said that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and recent studies have shown that those who hire or enlist the assistance of a wellness coach are six times healthier than those who try to improve their health alone or without support.

Though many see retirement as a time to relax and slow down, other sees it as a time to increase activity and keep up their wellness habits despite aging. In Britain, 93-year-old Margaret Allen would fall into the second category with her post-retirement activity of being a fitness instructor.

A competitive streak is a good motivator to work harder in physical activity, and the group cycling classes at a fitness center in New York city are taking advantage of this winning instinct by turning it into a class format and encouraging participants to compete with each other.

Most people have heard of rehab after an injury, but what’s making waves in many fitness clubs is the idea of “prehab.” The goal of prehab is to improve overall function of all the body’s systems to prevent injury and other health issues from appearing to begin with.

Many workouts or fitness programs are targeted to markets by promising specific effects. Flatter abs, firmer glutes, toned thighs and arms are often advertised as guarantees if certain movements or workout patterns are followed. Unfortunately, these promises to tone and trim specific areas are empty as the concept of spot reduction through specific movements is not possible.

The availability of pedometers has made tracking fitness progress easier for beginners by giving them a set number of steps to take each day. Some of these numbers start out pretty small, 5,000 or a little more to encourage users to get moving and a group of Japanese researchers have recently proposed that the standard number of steps one should take each day should be raised to 10,000 as a minimum to encourage pedometer users to move even more.

It’s the time of year where good intentions fall by the wayside due to Holiday indulgences and special events. This doesn’t have to be the case – there are numerous goals a person can set to remain healthy and on track both physically and nutritionally throughout the holiday season, and allow for little indulgences that make this time of year special.