Fitness breaks & holidays,
gym training & keep-fit courses & workshops away
Fitness Travel Company (The)
based: London, UK
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Fitness combined with exotic and intriguing holiday packages where, uniquely, the fee includes the services of a personal trainer for a few weeks before departure, setting up and starting a personalised fitness programme. To ensure continuing progress, this is followed up after the fitness holiday itself.
| fitness | UK | Europe | Mexico | Australia |
Getaway Fitness
based: Florida, USA
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Fitness breaks based at luxury resorts in Florida and Southern California. These all-inclusive vacations combine intensive and structured fitness regimes with exotic and relaxing destinations, delicious healthy gourmet food and nutrition instruction.
| fitness | USA |
OnTrack Weight Loss & Fitness Retreat
based: Devon, UK
Specialist weight loss, fitness and lifestyle change health retreats in the heart of the Devon countryside. Retreats designed to help with fat loss, fitness, good eating and healthy living, created for all shapes, sizes and fitness levels – offering a daily program of fitness classes, mindset seminars and healthy nutrition.
| retreats | fitness | boot camps | weight loss | holistic/wellness/wellbeing | yoga | UK | England |
Platinum Healing
based: East Sussex/Kent, UK
Offering juice detox retreats in England (in East Sussex/Kent and Leicestershire) with yoga and healing. Weight loss and fitness, fertility, stop smoking and emotional healing retreats with 50+ holistic treatments. "One of the Best Retreats in the World" – Telegraph.
| yoga | retreats | detoxification | weight loss | fitness | stag/hen | self development | NLP | meditation | England |
The Ultimate Retreat Company
based: Alicante, Spain
Luxury all-inclusive health retreats for weight loss, fitness, detox, wellbeing and anti-ageing, set in a beautiful award winning venue and spa. Join their exceptional and professional retreat team which includes a doctor, nutritionist, yoga and pilates teachers, personal trainers and holistic therapists; who will offer inspirational and individual care and support.
| weight loss | detoxification | yoga | pilates | fitness | nutrition | retreats | holistic/wellness/wellbeing | singles | Spain |
UpTrek
based: Bucharest, Romania & Tel Aviv, Israel
Making activity-driven vacations simple, UpTrek provides some of the world's most interesting and highly rated vacation packages and offers a discovery and booking platform that brings excitement and simplicity back to travel. Choose from hundreds of unique travel experiences and book online easily and instantaneously.
| working/volunteer | photographic | cookery | gastronomic | yoga | weight loss | fitness | detoxification | canoe/kayak | diving/snorkelling | mountain biking | Worldwide |
Fit Tours
based: Washington, USA
Fit Tours offer a range of tours that combine fitness, weight loss and health programs with exciting global travel.
| fitness | Worldwide |
Mum & Baby Experience
based: Tuscany, Italy
Fitness breaks (babycomes2bootcamp) in Tuscany, with babysitting during classes, for mums with little ones (dads are welcome too!).
| fitness | Italy |
Fitness holiday or boot camp – what's the difference?
This section of Travel-Quest deals with conventional fitness holidays which will tend to offer equipment based gym work, fitness classes such as circuit training and aerobics, plus other exercise activities that can range from gentle yoga to high powered mountain biking. Classes will often be held in custom gyms and training spaces. Some fitness breaks will provide personal trainers who will create tailored exercise regimes for guests. The style of instruction will probably be based less on compulsion and more on encouragement and motivation.
These days the difference between a fitness holiday and a 'bootcamp' has become blurred, mainly because some providers use the latter term for 'softer' style holidays – we therefore recommend you take a look at that section too!
Instructor qualifications on fitness breaks and holidays
How can you be sure your holiday fitness instructor is fit to instruct? There are a lot of reasons to check out the qualifications of the people running these sort of breaks, not least of which is for reassurance that their instruction will not cause injury, you'll also want to know that they're properly insured.
There are a lot of different fitness and gym instructor qualifications out there; some are general, some are specific to particular sports or activities (e.g. yoga or cycling).
In the UK there's no mandatory requirement for instructors to be qualified at all – although most reputable providers will ensure that they are! And once you start looking at fitness holidays abroad the situation becomes even less clear as it adds foreign qualifications to the mix.
Our advice is to always go to a providers 'about us' info and check the qualifications listed – if this information is not on their website ask them to provide it. Also check that the people listed will be the ones actually taking the classes and look for reassurances that any unlisted instructors will also be properly qualified. Be particularly vigilant if you are doing a long-haul fitness holiday to a country where there may be less controls.
CATEGORY DEFINITION FOR TOUR OPERATORS WISHING TO BE LISTED:
The travel-quest fitness breaks, gym training and keep-fit courses section is for listing holidays, vacations, camps, multi-day and residential courses, weekends and short breaks where the main activity and focus is on getting fit and healthy. This is will be achieved by gym work outs and weight training, keep fit classes, circuit training, exercise classes and sessions with a personal trainer. Other specific types of exercise (such as running, triathlon, swimming, yoga, pilates etc.) are dealt with in their own specific sections. We also now have a separate section for holidays branded as 'boot camps', if your holidays/courses are branded like this then they should be listed in that section rather than here, you can only be listed in both sections if you are offering two clearly distinct styles of holiday/course!
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