Dan Martell - May 13, 2019


5 Ways To Make Health a Priority While Travelling


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In this episode, Dan Martell talks about how to keep your health a priority while on the road and how to make sure you re not dehydrating as you travel. He talks about the importance of water and how important it is to stay hydrated.

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00:00:00.000 Hey there, Dan Martell here, serial entrepreneur,
00:00:01.720 investor, and creator of SaaS Academy.
00:00:03.800 In this video, I'm going to share with you
00:00:05.400 how to keep health a priority as you travel.
00:00:08.880 And be sure to stay at the end.
00:00:10.080 We're going to share with you an exclusive download
00:00:12.360 on the five productivity hacks that I use.
00:00:14.880 And specifically, the first one is my morning ritual.
00:00:18.080 Love to get you access to that, so let's get into the strategies.
00:00:30.000 So first off, I want you to know that I do travel a lot.
00:00:38.200 Now, I'm super lucky and blessed, so there's no complaints.
00:00:41.160 In many of the trips I take, my family's with me.
00:00:43.980 So I've been able to create a integrated life around it.
00:00:47.580 But one of the biggest challenges, just for example,
00:00:49.940 in the last two months, I've been to seven cities.
00:00:54.240 I did a five-day event in Boston.
00:00:58.680 I went snowboarding.
00:00:59.820 I went snow biking.
00:01:01.980 I'm just sharing that, not to brag,
00:01:03.540 although they were incredible trips.
00:01:05.760 I went on a Disney cruise with my family.
00:01:08.460 I'm speaking in Traffic and Conversion Summit in San Diego.
00:01:12.720 I share that because the challenges for me,
00:01:15.720 and maybe for you if you're a road warrior,
00:01:17.460 is that you have different circumstances or environments
00:01:20.580 that you're in.
00:01:21.700 And for me, what I've had to figure out,
00:01:24.420 because the last thing I want to do
00:01:25.660 is have my health have a negative consequence as I travel,
00:01:31.200 because I didn't want to not travel.
00:01:33.060 I love meeting people in person.
00:01:35.200 I love seeing new parts of the world with my family.
00:01:38.000 But I also want to make sure that I kept my habits going
00:01:41.960 while I was traveling.
00:01:42.960 So my rule, what I'm going to share with you today
00:01:44.460 are the five strategies that I do to make sure,
00:01:46.820 at a minimum, that I'm maintaining the level of fitness
00:01:50.320 in my life.
00:01:51.500 I'm even competing in the CrossFit Opens
00:01:53.920 while I'm doing all of this and still running
00:01:56.640 multi-million dollar companies.
00:01:58.020 So in this video, I'm going to share the five strategies
00:02:00.360 that I've used to help me keep this going on the road.
00:02:04.540 Number one, win your morning. 0.76
00:02:07.000 I think that, yes, breakfast and the way you wake up
00:02:10.220 and your rituals are all important.
00:02:12.140 For me, there's a few things that
00:02:14.460 need to happen in the morning.
00:02:15.560 One, you need to get super hydrated.
00:02:17.360 So sleep with at least half a liter of water next to your bed
00:02:21.180 so when you wake up, you can chug it
00:02:23.120 and kick off your day.
00:02:24.060 And it just sets the tone for everything else.
00:02:25.880 The other one is your breakfast.
00:02:27.780 I know that people say breakfast is the most important meal
00:02:29.780 of the day.
00:02:30.720 I don't agree with the nutritional aspect.
00:02:34.160 I just think that if you make a great decision,
00:02:36.380 and even more important to make it easy, just bring it with you.
00:02:38.960 Get a shake.
00:02:39.560 Get a breakfast kind of, I'm not going
00:02:42.800 to recommend any specific products.
00:02:44.140 I'm not here to endorse anybody.
00:02:45.520 But just have these packs ready to go.
00:02:47.220 If you go on a trip for seven days,
00:02:48.680 it's just seven meals that you just wake up,
00:02:50.660 put it after you chug your water, drink it,
00:02:53.060 you get your breakfast done.
00:02:54.340 But if you can't and you're ordering,
00:02:56.100 just make sure you have something healthy
00:02:57.620 because that just sets the stage for the rest of the day.
00:03:00.340 Your morning, people ask me like,
00:03:01.540 Dan, why do you have so much energy? 0.99
00:03:03.300 I'll tell you because I don't eat crap
00:03:05.300 because I care more about being present
00:03:07.140 and active and energetic for you 0.98
00:03:09.860 than having a crap breakfast. 0.88
00:03:11.780 So when your mornings stay hydrated, 0.93
00:03:15.140 get your body moving,
00:03:16.340 and eat something lean and mean right off the morning.
00:03:19.860 Number two, airport triggers.
00:03:21.880 So one of the things that I've learned
00:03:23.420 is that when I travel, I don't drink enough water.
00:03:26.440 And usually that's when my body gets dehydrated.
00:03:28.820 That's when I make bad decisions around meals.
00:03:30.880 And what I would much rather do is just get triggered
00:03:33.960 so that when I'm in certain locations
00:03:36.440 that I stay hydrated.
00:03:38.080 So, and yes, look, I get, you know, it costs me like 10 bucks.
00:03:41.940 But here's my strategy is as soon as I get into a new airport,
00:03:44.820 I land in an airport, I always go and get two bottles of water.
00:03:47.500 I chug one, and then I put one on my carry-on or in my laptop
00:03:50.860 bag, and I drink it until the next flight.
00:03:53.620 For me, that trigger is probably one
00:03:55.740 of the most important to just remind myself
00:03:58.300 to stay hydrated as I travel.
00:04:00.740 And the issue and the reason why I do the two bottles
00:04:02.980 is because I got to buy them once I get past security.
00:04:05.540 So it's really tough to travel with, obviously, bottles of water
00:04:08.980 because they'll take them from you,
00:04:10.660 or filling up your canteen or whatever it is.
00:04:12.460 So just think about triggers.
00:04:14.620 Think about when I'm in this location,
00:04:16.860 I do this smart decision.
00:04:18.520 The other thing is I like to buy eggs or beef jerky.
00:04:21.460 So I want some lean protein.
00:04:23.060 I want something that's going to fill me up
00:04:24.740 or some fruit or vegetables.
00:04:26.500 And usually, again, I know I'm paying a premium.
00:04:29.240 But for me, staying and keeping healthy while I travel
00:04:32.540 is more important than the dollars it's going to cost me
00:04:35.180 because it's going to have a way bigger impact
00:04:36.920 in long term around my focus, my energy, and my productivity.
00:04:39.620 So build the trigger.
00:04:41.460 Airport equals two bottles of water
00:04:43.420 and or some raw boiled eggs or some fruit or vegetables.
00:04:47.620 Have that every time you go in, even if you're not hungry,
00:04:50.360 so that you always feel full and hydrated.
00:04:53.280 Number three, sweat every day.
00:04:56.000 Now, I don't know when this became a thing,
00:04:58.380 but if you follow me on Instagram,
00:04:59.900 it is something that I am ridiculously passionate about.
00:05:02.360 And I just believe there's no reason on a daily basis
00:05:05.320 that I can't get my sweat on.
00:05:06.640 So it doesn't matter if it's a high intensity interval
00:05:09.780 training like Orange Theory or I'm
00:05:11.900 doing my CrossFit workout or I'm doing a CrossFit WOD
00:05:15.200 in my hotel room like I did this morning,
00:05:17.500 I want to make sure that I sweat every day to just
00:05:19.940 get my body moving.
00:05:21.000 If I can, I'll do it in the morning.
00:05:23.240 Typically, when I'm at home and I'm not on the road,
00:05:25.120 I like to work out at lunch to kind of reset for the afternoon.
00:05:28.020 But when I am traveling, first thing in the morning,
00:05:30.660 I'm going to do some kind of movement.
00:05:32.280 So it could be running or workout.
00:05:33.860 But my rule is that I think, and people are like,
00:05:36.020 you shouldn't work out every day.
00:05:38.080 I don't know about you, but I'm saying sweat every day.
00:05:41.000 You know, and some people, you can do an active recovery,
00:05:43.300 OK, rowing.
00:05:44.220 You can go for a walk.
00:05:44.960 I don't care.
00:05:45.460 Just walk fast to get your sweat on.
00:05:47.220 But I think it's really important for your body
00:05:48.980 to feel that elevated heartbeat and just get you
00:05:52.460 in the right rhythm.
00:05:53.380 So it's just part of the travel process
00:05:56.280 to make sure that I get my sweat on every day.
00:05:58.680 Number four, pre-order meals.
00:06:01.060 Now, this is a bit of a life hack.
00:06:02.960 And I feel super lucky that I have somebody that
00:06:05.800 supports me in this.
00:06:06.780 But typically, when I travel, I have my assistant look
00:06:09.700 at any meetings that I have, lunches or dinners,
00:06:12.520 and look at their menu online and already
00:06:14.700 make their decision for me through that menu.
00:06:17.700 So I always do, typically, greens and protein.
00:06:20.080 So that way, I just look at the calendar invite.
00:06:22.600 I can order it.
00:06:23.440 And I don't do what's called menu surfing.
00:06:25.360 I don't know if you've ever done this, where you sit down,
00:06:27.280 and you open the menu, and you're like, oh, that looks nice.
00:06:29.240 Oh, that looks nice.
00:06:30.400 And you want to have a conversation with people.
00:06:32.920 Have you eaten here before?
00:06:33.940 What did you like?
00:06:35.300 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:06:36.160 But at the end of the day, if you can just already
00:06:37.840 make that decision so you don't have decision fatigue,
00:06:40.600 it is going to allow you to stay super focused.
00:06:43.720 Big thing I'm going to give you is
00:06:45.120 ask them to put dressing on the side
00:06:46.900 in all situations or circumstances,
00:06:48.700 because you could actually technically order
00:06:50.920 something off the menu that sounds lean and mean,
00:06:53.680 but turns out to be not.
00:06:55.660 So always put dressing on the side.
00:06:57.080 And sometimes you might even want
00:06:58.420 to ask them to not cook with any oils, the protein,
00:07:00.760 because those are two things, especially in a salad,
00:07:03.400 that can ruin it from a lean and mean point of view.
00:07:06.640 So pre-order your meals before you show up to the restaurant.
00:07:10.120 Number five, get accountable to someone.
00:07:12.760 I think this is probably the most important.
00:07:14.560 For me, I've always had coaches in different aspects
00:07:17.940 of my life, from my kiteboarding coach,
00:07:20.440 to my snowboarding coach, to my business coach,
00:07:23.620 to my health coach.
00:07:25.440 And on the health side, I've got Nicole, who's my nutritionist.
00:07:29.620 Essentially, she monitors, because I
00:07:32.060 log in all of my food and my decisions,
00:07:34.060 and looks at, for me, because I'm
00:07:36.400 trying to perform at the highest level,
00:07:37.900 looks at the micronutrients to make sure
00:07:39.920 I'm getting the right things, right?
00:07:41.400 Because I do measure and do full body scans
00:07:44.220 around lean muscle mass and body fat percentages,
00:07:47.440 we can actually adjust the nutrition
00:07:49.900 to have certain outcomes from a performance point of view.
00:07:52.600 Now, I'm not asking you to get that intense
00:07:55.060 about monitoring and nutrition.
00:07:57.200 I'm just saying, have somebody else
00:07:59.320 that you can be accountable to, maybe on a daily basis.
00:08:01.980 Where I use MyFitnessPal, I just
00:08:03.740 log the food.
00:08:04.700 And you can invite somebody else to get access to that.
00:08:07.340 And it just makes it super easy for you
00:08:09.500 to feel like there's somebody else.
00:08:11.340 When we know the positive peer pressure of somebody else
00:08:14.660 involved in monitoring and making sure
00:08:16.940 that we're making right decisions,
00:08:18.240 it just changes the game for you, especially as you travel.
00:08:22.580 So five strategies to keep your health as a priority
00:08:25.940 while you're traveling.
00:08:27.020 Number one, win your morning. 0.76
00:08:29.260 Number two, use airport triggers.
00:08:31.580 Number three, sweat every day.
00:08:34.140 Number four, pre-order meals, no menu surfing.
00:08:37.420 And number five, get accountable to somebody else.
00:08:40.840 So as I mentioned at the beginning,
00:08:42.260 I want to share with you an exclusive resource
00:08:43.960 called the five productivity hacks that I put together.
00:08:46.720 You can click the link below to download that.
00:08:49.140 In there is a kind of an overview of my morning ritual
00:08:52.720 because for me, that sets up my whole day
00:08:54.760 and gets me producing and productive.
00:08:57.140 So you can click the link to grab your copy today.
00:08:59.660 And if you like this video, be sure
00:09:01.020 to smash the like button, subscribe to my channel.
00:09:03.580 If there's somebody that you care about,
00:09:05.480 feel free to share this video with them directly.
00:09:08.240 And as per usual, I wanna challenge you
00:09:09.720 to live a bigger life and a bigger business,
00:09:11.380 and I'll see you next Monday.
00:09:12.700 You need to get the shot of the water,
00:09:14.080 and then I'm gonna chug it.
00:09:15.080 And then I realize I'll probably spill it all over my shirt.
00:09:18.040 Probably not a good idea.