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Make your road trip more enjoyable by loosening your muscles and revving your circulation. 

As much as I look forward to taking trips with my husband, I worry about how much I can't sit still.

Before you head outside for a run, find out what you need to know about exercising in the great outdoors.

Travel will take you to exciting places. As you maintain your exercise regime, chances are you're going to do some outdoor activities, such as skiing in Aspen, tennis in South Beach, inline skating in San Francisco. Boy, you get around. Still, no matter the activity, you'll have to face the elements, and the first rule of exercising outdoors successfully (i.e., safely) is similar to being successful in business: location, location, location.

Sound familiar? Ease your travel-weary back with these easy exercises.

How often have you said that? After a day of sightseeing or booth hopping at some convention, your posture is shot and your hands move automatically to your lower spine. Look around you the next time you're stuck at the airport due to some flight delay or layover. How many tired travelers are extending their arms forward, massaging their backs or sitting in awkward positions?