Summary: In this episode of Get Up And Code, the panel talks about working out while traveling. This episode's panelists are Dean Radcliffe, Donn Felker, Jesse Taber and John Sonmez. <a style="line-height: 1.5;" href="http://www.patreon.com/getupandcode" target="_blank">Patreon (Donate to Get Up And Code)</a> I’d really appreciate it if you could <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/get-up-and-code!/id646958161?mt=2" target="_blank">Rate Get Up and CODE on iTunes</a>. Thanks! Full Transcript: Speaker 1: Welcome to the Get Up and CODE Podcast with your host John Sonmez. The only podcast that combines fitness and programming and does it in less time than it takes to finish your workout. John: Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Get Up and CODE. I’ve got the panel here today. We’ve got a new member joining us. We’ve been trying to figure out the—this obviously new format here so obviously if you’ve been listening to Get Up and CODE you know who I am. I’m John Sonmez and I will let everyone else on the panel introduce yourselves so go ahead. Jesse: I’m Jesse Taber from Tallahassee, Florida and I’m primarily a C# developer. Donn: I’m Donn Felker from East Coast New Jersey and primarily an Android developer. Dean: Cool. I’m Dean Radcliffe from Chicago, Illinois. I am a JavaScript developer doing Meteor.js and amateur triathlete. John: Awesome. All right. Today our topic we’re going to talk about is traveling, working out while traveling. This is an interesting topic. We’ve talked about it a little bit before on Get Up and CODE and I know my opinion has changed about it. Donn: John, didn’t you say at one point recently that when you were traveling one place at some point you just have to treat it as damage control at some level if there’s certain things happening in your life? What did you say? Do you remember that? John: Yeah, yeah, and I think that’s true. That point I think has not really changed so much as I’ve been traveling. I’ve been in—just for background I’ve been traveling around Europe for about 3-1/2 months with my family. I’m actually going back to the States tomorrow. One of the things that I’ve found from doing traveling in the past and especially in this trip is the first most important thing is the damage control because like it’s really easy even just in a week’s time you can get—you can put on a large amount of weight. You can totally mess up your diet or your physique in just a short period of time. If you’re going for a long period of time the danger of not running or not lifting weights, you can not only damage all the progress that you made but you can break those habits which is pretty scary and dangerous, I think. I think just at a very minimum level I think the most important thing is like just to think of damage control. How can you—you know that you’re not going to be able to be perfect, but a lot of people have the tendency to fly off the rails as I call it where it’s like you’re just like, “Well, screw it, if I can’t be healthy or can’t eat my chicken breast then I’m just going to eat whatever” or “If I can’t workout then I’m just not even going to try. I’m just going to whatever and I’ll pick it up back later when I get home.” I think that’s the dangerous attitude to have because that’s where you take something that would be like a small misstep or small deviation from your plan and you suddenly like derail yourself in your going of off the rails in a totally different direction. Jesse: Yeah. I think what happens is you get off the rails on that vacation or that trip or whatever it is and you just—you never get back on them. You get back home or wherever where you can and should reestablish that routine that got you to where you were in the first place but you just don’t because you let yourself get too far away from it.
