This is Optimal Health Daily. How to Get Back on the Exercise Train and a simple fitness plan for travelers,

both by Leo Babouda of Zenhabits.net. And I'm Dr. Neil Malik, your narrator of blogs covering health and fitness.

Now today's a little different. I have two shorter posts for you, both coming from Zen Habits.

When posts are really short, I like to read two, so today's like a two-for-one special.

Now, I love reading tips about how to stay healthy while traveling, because that seems to be my Achilles' heel.

Whenever I travel, I seem to come back sick. In fact, I just made vacation plans for a four-day trip and then thought to

myself, oh boy, I better plan on taking some extra time off when I get back because I'll probably

come back not so well. I don't know why I'm such a horrible traveler. I just can't sleep in new beds.

I get a little anxious, something's going on. So I always love hearing these tips. But before we get

to that tip, I've got to first talk about how to get back on the exercise train. So let's get right

to the posts and continue optimizing your life. How to Get Back on the Exercise Train by Leo Babouda of zenhabits.net.

It's a story most of us have lived through at some time or other.

We begin an exercise program and it's going well,

but after a week or two or a month or two, or even a year or two,

we fall off the program.

Then we might get a little down about that,

and because of the initial

friction of entering any program, it's hard to get back into it. I recently fell off my triathlon training

for a couple of weeks due to illness and a death in the family, and I found it hard to get back

into it. I reset my resolve, just press the reset button, and refocused myself, leaving off all other goals

but my training for the month of March. So for those of you who've fallen off your exercise

program and want to get back in, here are my tips. Tip number one, refocus and commit yourself

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