Guest post: Holiday workouts and how not to avoid them!

Hands up if you're going on holiday soon! Keep them up if you're planning to work out while you're away. If you just put your hand down, today's post is for you. The fabulous Joslyn from Fit Girl About Town (and Nike Master Trainer - she's a professional badass) has some great tips on keeping up your fitness routine and maintaining that beautiful bikini bod when you're far from home (and the gym):

So you've done it, you've worked your little tush up into frenzy and you are ready to rock that bikini. Hey y'all, look at my fly toned ass!!! So what a girl does not want to do, is blow it on holiday, sure you're gonna relax sweety, but we don't want the tone in the ass to relax too, you dig!!

So here are a few rules to follow:

1. Up and out - get that shizzle done first thing in the morning, that holiday lazy days feeling only gets more intense as the day goes on. So you know the way you know the way you don't feel like working out after a long hard day... multiply that by a gazillion, and that's how you're gonna feel about an afternoon workout on holiday!!

2. Keep it simple - Got your running shoes?  Go run!!  Find a hill and run up it 6 times for 30-60 seconds, resting for 2.5 minutes in between, like I did camping in France last summer, or make yourself a mini track on the beach and sprint up it ten times for 15-20 seconds with 2 minutes rest in between each one.

Just a small little hill for running up, when camping in San Sebastien

Usain who, nobody gonna catch me on my sand track!!

3. Keep it even simpler - work out in your hotel room with a circuit that is so quick you'll be done, showered and down to breakfast before you can say "ass still tight!" - Repeat the following (10 squats, 10 lunges, 10 press ups, 60 second plank, 10 burpees) rest for 1 minute and repeat 3-5 times. Work out hard through each rep!!!

4. Do it every day!! Run, do the circuit, do cartwheels if you need to, just move!!!! The 10-30 minutes it takes to workout will be worth it when you can chill guilt-free for the rest of the day!!