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Health & Fitness for the Road Warrior: Consistent Fitness by Staying Consistently Healthy

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I was disappointed in this book. It seems as if the author needed to pad his book out, so he added a lot of really basic filler material that didn't add to the subject at hand. Several times he'd write a couple of paragraphs on some subject, then tell you to go to some website, which is really annoying, especially as we all know that websites can disappear overnight, and quite often do.

The workout? Well, most hotel rooms do not come with those two folding chairs he uses, and I doubt most people want to tip someone to bring them up to them. The eating plan? He would be better advised to tell you to go to some supermarket and buy some healthy meal to heat up in the hotel microwave or a bag of prewashed salad with dressing rather than having you try to find something healthy at any fast food place.

The book itself has some very poor photography, very grainy-looking--no excuse for that in this day and age.

I'm glad I borrowed this from the library and did not buy it.

Travel Fitness, by Rebecca Johnson and Bill Tulin is a much better book, and cheaper, too.

How many times have you hit the road on business with good intentions of working out and eating right? If you read this book, you will have no more excuses. The author combines a smooth writing style with great information about fitness, sleep, diet, and lifestyle changes that will keep you fit for life. The book is a permanent part of my travel kit. Thanks Kurt!

For years I have struggled with trying to balance my family, my career, and my health. With this book I have finally learned how to get in an excellent workout in a short period of time without having to invest the time in going to the gym. The author provides some great discipline ideas to get into shape and STAY IN SHAPE. I would recommend this book to anyone who has all of the loads of family and work who realizes the necessity for good health and fitness. I haven't read anything that synthesizes the mental and physical path better.

Ah, now here's a travel fitness book by a guy who thinks like I do.

Kurt Gutierrez believes you can apply the same planning, discipline, and anticipated outcomes to saying healthy on the road as you do in the rest of your professional and personal life. 'Just get it out there on an Excel spreadsheet', I can almost hear the author say.

I like that.

My own ongoing struggle to get fit again and then stay fit at a half-time travel pace owes a lot to the subjectivity of it all. Self-disclosure: I'm twenty pounds overweight at a time in life where that kind of thing has to stop, 'cuz the slopes get more slippery from here on out. Gutierrez wants me to get the situation and the plan down on paper and stick to it like I do with the rest of my life. He's talking my language.

Eight short chapters and an appendix make the case: 'You're off!', 'Finding your personal why--your fitness mission and goals', 'Sleep', 'Jet lag', 'Stress', 'Eating and drinking', 'Exercise while traveling', 'Returning to the home front: putting it all together' and the appendix: 'Discussion on Heart Rate'.

In the vocabulary of time and life management, the former military man Gutierrez' approach is top-down. That is, he actually wants his reader to sit down (chapter two) and write out his or her mission and goals. For guys like me who need to know why we do the things we do, this is what the doctor ordered. I have the discipline to implement the idea. I just need the idea. Mr. Gutierrez shows me how to get it out of my head--where it doesn't have the authority it requires--and on to paper, where I'm prone to obey.

Parts of this book will be old hat to any seasoned traveler. What the potential buyer has before him is the choice to by the book for the helpful portions that I have attempted to sketch above, knowing that other sections will deal with matters (a trip checklist, staying hydrated on a plane, etc.) for which he needs little additional instruction. On the other hand, the book is slim and lightweight and--calorie charts and all--could prove handy as a one-volume tagalong reference while you get our travel ducks in a row.

The author provides concrete exercises you can use today, with a healthy emphasis on ramping up to a sustainable exercise habit rather than binging on well-intentioned but short-lived get-fit rampages. I especially appreciate his final pages on 'common misconceptions' and 'returning to the home front'.

Numerous misspellings mar the book but won't keep you from making good use of the contents.

Hey you with the laptop, cellphone, blackberry and pager. Yeah, I know your life. You've had three conference calls, sixty email messages, you've missed delivery for your biggest client and your flight to Topeka is overbooked. That's no excuse to make a b-line for the closest Cinnabon.

In this handy guidebook Kurt Gutierrez offers a no nonsense practical guide to taking care of yourself. It is easy to follow and will generate the results your looking for. You'll look better, feel better and make better choices. This is not a gimmick or fad. It is a commonsense approach to fitness, eating and sleeping that will help you take better care of yourself despite the grueling lifestyle of the business traveler. I recommend it highly.