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  • Top 10 Healthy Holidays to Book for Christmas & New Year 2021/2022

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    Christmas and New Years are a season onto themselves, filled with the best aspects of life that make you feel like maybe you are magic. While we’re terribly fond of our little island, let’s face it, December and January don’t exactly showcase Britain at its finest, so why not make the most of this magical season with a charming winter sun holiday escape?

  • Top 5 Eco-Friendly Holidays That Look After The Planet and You

    In celebration of Earth Day 2017, go green and glamorous with our top five luxury eco-friendly health retreats. From New Zealand to South Africa, spark your biophilic wanderlust with these eco-luxe health retreats that boast the most stunning yet sustainable accommodation and facilities, plus notable green-friendly awards to prove it. Combined with all-natural spa remedies and healthy organic cuisine from onsite gardens, be at one with Mother Nature and yourself.

  • Top 5 Fitness Holiday Workouts

    Working out is a key step in the quest to get fit and healthy, but which style is best suited for you? Whether you want to tone up, slim down or get fit mentally and physically, we take you through five of the best fitness workouts, so you can find the best method to achieve your goals. We also round up five of our handpicked luxury fitness holidays where you can enjoy all five of these workouts on one amazing healthy holiday!

  • Top 5 Gluten Free Holiday Destinations

    More than just a fad diet, eating gluten-free is in fact vital to individuals suffering from a condition called coeliac disease, or hypersensitivity to gluten. It is a lifelong disorder in which the small intestine reacts to the intake of gluten, leading to difficulty in digesting food. According to Coeliac Australia, this disease is affecting approximately 1 in 70 Australians with over 80% of this number remain undiagnosed. Fortunately, there’s a reasonably good number of resources available to acquire gluten-free food anywhere in the world, from restaurants, retail stores to specialised holiday spots, you name it. 

  • Top 5 Health Benefits of Tennis

    Come rain or shine Wimbledon and with Aussie wildcard Nick Kyrgios to inspire us there has never been a better time to get into tennis. But instead of simply watching the pros hard at work, why not pick up a racket and hit the court?  It’s easy, fun and offers a whole range of health benefits. So whether you are looking to perfect your serve on a dedicated tennis holiday or simply work up a sweat on your local courts, we’ve listed our top 5 reasons why tennis is so good for your health.

  • Top 5 Healthy Gut Holidays

    Top 5 Healthy Gut Holidays

     

    When it comes to a healthy lifestyle, regular exercise and medical check-ups are just one part of the equation. Giving your body an appropriate diet and nutritional intake to go alongside these great active habits is key to aim for faster, higher vitality. A healthy gut can make a substantial difference to your immune system and many other vital health aspects, helping control digestion and balancing hormones for example. Keeping these aspects of your health in check is very important to provide your gut with healthy bacteria and immune cells which help ward off infectious agents like viruses and fungi. 

  • Top 5 Luxury Fitness Holidays for Active Couples

    If you are looking for a fitness holiday with your partner which will set you both on the pathway to a healthier lifestyle, look no further as we round up our top 5 luxury fitness holidays for active couples.

  • Top 5 Romantic Healthy Holidays for Your Valentine

    With Valentine's Day approaching, it's not too late to book a break away for a truly romantic holiday. We share our top five very tempting romantic trips for couples. These healthy holidays are designed to ensure you board the plane home not only relaxed but rejuvenated too, and include all sorts of vitality-boosting activities, menus and treatments for the ultimate health and fitness romantic experience.

  • Top Detox Retreats for Extending Your Dry January Efforts

    We all have very different relationships with alcohol, some won’t touch it, some have it on special occasions, some drink multiple days a week and some sadly have a detrimental relationship with it. Regardless of your specific attitude toward alcohol, you will surely be aware that in moderation alcohol is okay, but any form of regularity or excess can have serious health consequences, affecting your weight, skin, and as it is a depressant, your mental health too. 

  • Top Healthy Tips for Travelling with Kids

    From toddlers to teenagers, it can be a challenge to keep your children entertained and tantrum-free as you navigate airports and new surroundings on your first family holiday. Unhealthy aeroplane food, dehydration and long periods of sitting down can undermine your children’s health and leave the whole family tired and irritable. Pre-empt any problems, before you’ve even stepped on the plane, with our top tips for travelling with kids.

  • Top Wellness Retreats for Healthy Foodies

    Take your passion for healthy eating a step further and indulge in one of our top nutrition holidays for healthy foodies. Learn more about how to better your insides with nutritional talks and consultations as you enjoy breath-taking surroundings and world-class treatments that will leave you with a spring in your step. Make the most of fresh detox smoothies, Asian cuisine, healthy twists on classic junk food staples and much more. There are also plenty of opportunities to work on your outsides too with complementary access to group classes such as yoga, Pilates, meditation and general fitness. These retreats truly are a healthy foodies’ heaven!

  • Weave travel you'll love into your New Year’s Resolutions

    How to weave travel you'll love into your New Year’s Resolutions

    I used to hate the thought of making New Year’s Resolutions.

    I was completely disconnected from my own life and I found myself stuck when needing to come up with reasonable and acceptable things that I wanted to be doing.

  • Wellness Holidays for Incompatibility Syndrome

    Choosing to go away as a couple can highlight more than ever a clash of interests between partners. Whilst women generally enjoy relaxing on the beach, yoga and Pilates, followed by pampering in the spa, men prefer to embrace and enjoy the sport and fitness facilities available, be it the 18 hole golf course, the PADI scuba centre or the chance to learn a new fitness skill in Kickboxing. A wellness holiday could be the perfect solution to this dilemma, offering a dose of something to keep everybody happy. With the real promise of saving your relationship, partners can both enjoy time away doing what they want as opposed to sacrificing their own preferences.

  • What are the Different Types of Spa Retreats?

     The idea of a luxury spa retreat is always a particularly attractive one but which type of spa is for you? At Health and Fitness Travel we have many different types of spas ranging from Destination Spas to Ayurveda spas, Medical Spas and more traditional spas.

  • What Can You Really Expect from a Stress Management Retreat?

    What Can You Really Expect from a Stress Management Retreat?

     

    The strain and pressure of daily life can very easily lead to stress. A goodanti-stressprogramme can have tremendous benefits and allow you to focus on your wellbeing in a peaceful setting. However, astress management retreat is much more than just a relaxing spa getaway. Though indulgent spa treatments are included, these are combined with various therapies, activities, and medical consultations to address the root of the problem and develop a sustainable approach to relieving stress and living a more happy and productive life. A de-stress holiday gives you the chance to recharge your batteries by offering activities including private yoga and Pranayama, alongside luxury treatments and meditation. With trips from theCaribbean to theFar East, you can immerse yourself in tranquil locations and concentrate on regaining balance and focus in your life.

  • Where to Go For the Ultimate Lifestyle Retreat

    If you need to reset and escape from your hectic schedule, our Lifestyle Retreats could be the luxury break you’ve been looking for. Enjoy the best of both worlds with five-star hotel indulgence whilst experiencing the best elements of wellness. Choose how you spend your time on your dream luxury haven—in between downtime and relaxation, find calm through yoga or meditation sessions, go on a cultural adventure or a shopping to your heart’s content, get active with personal training sessions or let your significant other join you on a wellness bliss experience for two. Benefit from a lifestyle reset in the most vibrant destinations, from the quiet tropical paradise of Bali to the bustling city of London.

  • Where to Go for Triathlon Training?

    Have you caught the triathlon bug? When olympic fever hit our shores last summer, we watched mesmerised as the athletes of Great Britain surpassed all expectations and truly 'inspired a generation'. The 'Summer of Sport' helped contribute to a huge increase of adults taking up a weekly healthy activity in an attempt to get fit. Over 750,000 new people put on their running shoes, dusted off their cycling helmets and made early New Year's resolutions to get in shape. With Great Britain taking 2 of the podium positions in the men's Triathlon event, the Brownlee brothers proved that you don't need expensive equipment, a specialised track or a 4-minute mile to be fit and successful; you just need to give it everything you've got and have fun whilst you do it.

  • Where to Go on a Pilates Retreat in 2023

    Where to Go on a Pilates Retreat in 2023

     

    Pilates is a practice that is only growing in popularity as more people discover the impactful effects it has not only on the body but alsoon the mind. Pilates has come a long way sinceit was first created byJoseph Pilates, amounting a storm online in recent years; likened for its ability to strengthen, elongate and bring an awareness of the body. Perhaps it's popularity can be pinpointed to its versatility and ability to cater to anybody, whether you are a complete bamboozled newcomer, or a manic athlete, a toddler squirming in nappies or a grandma wanting some variety from jazz class. 2023 is a brilliant time to immerse yourself in theworld of Pilates with a tailoredPilates retreat . With that in mind, here are the best places to go on a Pilates retreat in 2023: 

  • Where to Go on a Yoga Retreat in 2022

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    There is nothing quite as therapeutic and grounding as a yoga session. At Health and Fitness Travel, we offer a vast selection of yoga retreats - and no two are exactly alike! We offer dozens of fabulous locations around the world for you to get in touch with your body. Here are six standouts places to go on a yoga retreat in 2022! 

  • Where to Learn About Healthy Nutrition on Holdiay

    With many fad diets offering nothing more than a short-term fix and unsustainable practices, losing weight and keeping it off can be two very different things. Offering long-term solutions, we share our top healthy eating approaches to nourish your body rather than starve it. Explore the realms of a raw food plant based diet that will allow you to retain all essential nutrients, or delve into the balanced lifestyle of the Ayurvedic diet aimed to reunite your body’s humours.