Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up. My name is Brock Armstrong, and I am the Get Fit Guy.

Movement is great for your brain and for your stress levels. And today's episode is all about why an active

vacation actually beats a beach chair and a margarita,

well, every single time. Remember back in grade school when your teacher clearly wasn't

completely ready for the school year to begin? You'd get the good old assignment to write an

essay about what you learned on your summer vacation. Well, you can think of this as my what I learned on my summer vacation essay,

but with a bit more of a fitness and wellness vibe than, well, I had in the fifth grade.

Now, on my summer vacation, I traveled through Denmark, Belgium, and Holland, with some

brief dips into Sweden and Germany as well, on a bicycle and on foot.

As you probably know, I have always been a believer in making vacations an active affair

for fun and for fitness.

But cycling from town to town was actually a bit of a new

adventure for me, an adventure that I highly recommend. Now that I've been home for a few weeks, I've

had a chance to reflect on my trip, and I am now ready to share what I experienced and contemplated

during my cycling vacation. The first thing

I want to highlight is that safe cycling is more fun. As a cyclist, if you're constantly

afraid of getting hit by a car or even just run off the road by drivers whose cars are

clearly too big for their own good, well, you're not going to have

all that much fun. The good people of Europe, though, specifically Denmark, Holland, and Belgium

seem to have that sorted out. We North Americans could really take a lesson on the importance

of bike safety from the Scandinavians. Not only are the bike lanes significantly

wider in those countries than they are in Canada and the US, but much of the time there's

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