Destination Weddings and Fitness Prep: How to Train for the Big Day

Your wedding is one of the most important days of your life and should be celebrated with full vigor. If you’re planning a destination wedding, it can be exciting to think about how your wedding day will look and how you’d love for it to all be perfect. However, it can be so easy to lose sight of what’s really important on your wedding day with a hundred chores to take care of. Spoiler alert: It’s You! You’re the most important person on your wedding day.

Taking care of your physical and mental health, and doing a whole fitness prep reset a few months before the big day can help you stay in the best shape of your life on a day where you are the center of attention. Today, we’re going to look at a quick guide on how you can train your body and mind for your destination wedding and enjoy your special day to the fullest.

7 Ways To Train For Your Destination Wedding

Create A Timeline

The best way to achieve your goals, be it for your destination wedding, or your fitness prep is to create a timeline of what things you want to accomplish and by when. Just like your wedding planning timeline, mention all the details in your fitness prep timeline to start working on your fitness goals.

What’s your goal? It could be losing weight, building muscle, getting more active, or losing fat.

What do you need to do? Exercise, eat right, hydrate, add more walking to your day, do ten squats a day, etc. Be as specific as possible in your approach to make the timeline practical.

When will you do it? Identify the hours of the day that you will need to keep free for your training, whether you’ll workout at home or go to a gym, etc. Identifying logistics associated with training can help you arrange your training seamlessly.

Work With A Personal Trainer

The most effective way to achieve your fitness goals before your destination wedding is to find a personal trainer with the right experience and knowledge. Working with a personal trainer can help you curate a fitness prep routine that not only suits your personal preferences but also the physical and climatic demands of your chosen wedding destination. They’ll also give you a clear idea of how realistic your goals are and help you find ways within your daily routines to achieve them.

Your workout will look very different based on your chosen wedding ceremony aspects. A wedding ceremony in an outdoor beach venue of Santa Cruz, Malibu, or Santa Monica will demand physical fitness from you as you will be engaging in physical activities like surfing and other water sports there. Alternatively, a wedding ceremony being held in the rustic farm cities of Paso Robles, Riverside or Ojai will demand more farm fitness from you, which means you must build a stronger core and practice strength training.

Incorporate Movement In Daily Life

The months preceding your wedding are hectic. You’re not only planning a wedding that’s taking place in another part of the country or world, but also handling your daily workload of work, wedding arrangements, family obligations and more.

Taking advantage of daily movement can help you take off some stress from showing up to your training everyday. By setting realistic goals and asking your personal trainer to incorporate a larger part of them into your daily life can help you attain them faster.

Here are some simple ways to add more physical activity in your daily life to prepare your body for your destination wedding:

Walk and jog more often. Whether it’s taking stairs in the office, or walking a bit to and for while you’re on a call. Adding movement to your day will drastically increase your chances of reaching your fitness goals.

Take frequent breaks throughout your day, at least every 30 minutes and move around for five minutes. It will keep your body more active and give your mind some much needed relaxation time.

Invest in a standing desk if possible. It will give you more opportunities to be active throughout the day even when you’re working.

Focus On What You Consume

Nutrition plays an important role in your fitness prep, especially if you’re training for your big day. Be very careful about what you eat a few months before your wedding, especially if you’re someone who doesn’t like exercising too much. If you can, invest in finding a dietician who understands your goals and gives you a curated meal plan.

Focus on switching your regular takeout with home cooked meals. If cooking everyday isn’t possible for you, meal prep for the week and consistently meet your daily dietary needs for macro and micronutrients.

Along with that, ensure that your body is hydrated well. A hydrated body will help you burn more calories, stay active throughout the day, and make your fitness sessions more productive. Not only will eating and drinking right help you meet your goals for your wedding, but will also give you radiant skin, shiny hair, and gorgeous nails. When you consistently put effort into your diet, you’ll see positive results and your body will glow from within.

Make Working Out Fun

If you want to stay consistent with your fitness prep and become the healthiest and happiest version of yourself before your destination wedding, make working out fun. Don’t limit yourself to 30 minutes of cardio, followed by an hour of strength training everyday. Mix and match your workout routine to enjoy your exercise as much as you enjoy planning your destination wedding.

For instance, you could combine cardiovascular training with flexibility exercises like yoga or Pilates. Or if you’re in the mood for something energetic, you could spend an hour of your workout time on Zumba, followed by 15 minutes of mindfulness exercises to ground yourself and let go of the stress that you managed the entire day.

The idea behind this is to follow the natural rhythm of your body and listen to your gut instead of tying yourself up in some routine. This will release the highest amount of oxytocin and dopamine, both of which will help you stay more consistent and motivated to achieve your goals.

Prioritize Your Mental Health

Your mental health is as important as your physical health when preparing for your big day. A wedding ceremony is a big commitment, both mentally and physically. Add to that the pressure of traveling to a new place, making all the arrangements, finding last-minute help and preparing for emergencies, and you’ve got yourself a stressful situation.

To manage your stress and focus on your mental health, find simple ways to keep your mind unoccupied. You could spend the first hour of the day without any external distractions and use it for meditation or mindfulness techniques. Try incorporating healthy mental habits as a part of your lifestyle to keep your cortisol levels in check and stay active.

Think of ways to spend some quality time with your significant other, attend a hobby class that makes you happy, do some grounding exercises, and listen to your body. The deeper you connect with your intuition, the better your mental and emotional well-being will flourish.

Keep Track Of Your Progress

Last but not least, make sure you’re tracking your progress on a daily basis, weekly basis, and monthly basis to understand how far along you are. Checking your real-time progress with the timeline that you had created for yourself can give you a realistic idea of how long it will take for you to achieve your fitness goals.

It will also make it easier for you to make changes to your schedule, cut out unnecessary activities if necessary, and lock in more seriously on your fitness prep. If you are able to follow through with the process keeping your dedication intact, you might just earn yourself a personal trainer certificate for all the effort you put into attaining your fitness goals for your dream destination wedding ceremony!

Final Thoughts

Fitness prep can be a fun way to handle the overwhelming feeling of planning a destination wedding, and train your mind and body to be their best selves simultaneously. By creating a timeline for your fitness journey, working with an experienced personal trainer, finding ways to stay healthy everyday, taking care of your nutritional needs, mixing up your workout to avoid monotony, prioritizing your mental well-being and actively tracking your growth, you can train your body for benefits that go beyond looking your most gorgeous self on your special day in an unknown land filled with love, fun, and memories!