I am needing a few months away from work from May to August, and as a consequence I would like to spend it so I reap some benefits from it. So I started exploring into exactly how to get fit on a holiday. A fitness holiday appears to have all the things I am hoping for. Losing weight, being around other men and women with the same mind set so I will not be distracted all the time and exercising every day.
OK, so I made my mind up. Three months on a fitness holiday, but what. I did not just want to be in a gym all the time, I want to see some beaches, get a tan and get to know a different culture so I started to look on the internet (I just love the internet!) and came up with some great ideas for a fitness holiday.
They had so many cool fitness holiday programmes. The ones in China, Thailand and the fitness holiday in Brazil caught my eye. These are three countries I would love to visit and it would be ideal if I can combine it with getting fit on a fitness holiday. In all three countries they had Martial arts, and I love Martial arts.
The fitness holiday in Thailand looks seriously cool, six kilometres from the world's most beautiful beaches, in the tropical rainforest with national Champions. Here you can train up to eight hours a day without distractions of parties. This might be something for me. Because if there are too many parties to visit, I will never lose my puppy fat, and then after partying and drinking I will not be able to look the Thai champion in the eye to tell him I have a hangover.
The other option for a fitness holiday I saw on their website was a fitness holiday in China. The Chinese Martial Arts is Kung Fu. Very complex but very interesting. Here you would stay at the campus with like minded people of all ages and all nationalities. No beaches around, but the fitness holiday camp is situated in a world heritage, so that is cool too. And you will have the option to learn mandarin.
But then I came across a fitness holiday in Brazil. I love Capoeira. Not that I have ever done it but it looks so cool! And have you seen those bodies? This fitness holiday programme is in Rio, close to the busiest beach in Brazil where everything that is alive looks good. I think this will be my favourite. Now all I have to do is to convince my parents to contribute in the costs.
I have the feeling my parents will be supporting me, they would love to see me on a fitness holiday to get in shape. They were very young their selves when they started travelling too so they will also support that I want to go on a fitness holiday far from home. I will get to learn more about myself as I am in a foreign country by myself.
The good thing about booking my fitness holiday through a gap year company is that they can advise me before I go, help me out with visa's and I know I will have the right support once I am out there. And I will meet lots of other gap year travellers on their fitness holiday. With these arguments I know my parents will agree on me to go, and maybe even pay for it.
