It’s all too easy to eat more high caloric foods while on a trip, be it for business or leisure, and if your hotel doesn’t have a gym, how will you burn that food away?

The exercise DVD is your savior.

I used to be disdainful of the at-home exercise video because I was a gym rat and a runner, but in recent years, I’ve obviously had a change of heart. Short on time, or when it’s cold outside, a workout DVD will stave off excuses to sweat it out.

The latest one I bought was The Tracy Anderson Method Presents Post Pregnancy Workout DVD because of its rave reviews, plus Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna are huge fans. The workout is so effective that women who weren’t preggers have tried it out.

I’m one of them – feel free to snigger but Tracy Anderson does walk the talk and her workout is hard. I found some of her techniques similar to the bootcamp DVD I’ve been using off and on for two years, but she adds some dance and ballet moves to make it more feminine. And she pipes classical music as the background of this grueling ab and butt resistance training — very unusual but I appreciate the soft touch and it’s a nice break from thumping beats that often accompany aerobic workouts.

Now that I’m traveling from place to place in the US, I love the fact that I can put this on my laptop and crunch away for 40 minutes.

In my post-workout state, I’m relaxed and I can tuck into my dinner feeling good about myself.

Oh and did you know that exercise prevents aging? Hell, yeah.

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