Your health: The ultimate travel companion

Start this season feeling your best

Your health: The ultimate travel companion

As we kick off another show season, there’s one idea we keep coming back to, especially in the motorhome and campervan community. We spend so much time, money and care on our vehicles. We service them, upgrade them, clean them, protect them. All the bells and whistles because they’ve got to be ready for the journey ahead. And for some of us, they are our actual homes too.

But what about the body that’s actually driving it?

Your van might be the vehicle that takes you from place to place, but your body is the vehicle that allows you to experience it. The views, the walks, the wild swimming, the community, the freedom. None of it happens without your health, and yet, it’s often the last thing we prioritise.

We see it all the time. People who have built incredible lifestyles around travel and adventure, but are running on low energy, poor sleep, aches and pains, or relying on convenience foods that don’t properly fuel them. Most of the time it’s not a lack of care, because it’s things we have come to see as normal as we age. We simply don’t know that these mundane symptoms we are plagued with can often be fixed with little to no investment.

Health doesn't have to be complicated

A lack of clarity is a problem. Health has been made to feel complicated, restrictive and unrealistic. But it doesn’t have to be.

At bFRANK, we focus on simple, high reward habits that support your physical, mental and environmental health. The foundations that actually allow you to feel good and keep doing what you love for years to come. If this is the first time you are reading about us, we always divert back to the source: nature. This is how you un-complicate health. How do we live in tune with the very environment we evolved in?

outdoor workout at shepton motorhome show

Simple habits that make a big difference on the road

When it comes to being in a van, these are some of the easiest health supporting habits to start with:

Get natural light early in the day
Open the van doors, step outside, and let your eyes and skin see daylight within 30–60 minutes of waking. This anchors your internal body clock, which ultimately regulates all cellular processed within the body. Morning daylight even affects the quality of our sleep that night!

Base your meals around real food
Keep it simple: protein, healthy fats, and the seasonal produce where you are. Eggs, meat, fish, fruit, veg, dairy. Fresh produce can be harder to store in a van so make the most of whole foods that have been tinned, dried/freeze dried, jarred and frozen.

Move your body daily
Use it or lose it! It’s doesn’t need to be a full workout every day. A walk, bodyweight exercises, stretching, mobility routines, it all counts. YouTube is a great source of free follow-along routines. Movement keeps your body strong, mobile and independent.

Protect your sleep environment
Bright LED lighting (from screens too) tricks your body into thinking it’s still day time, meaning melatonin (the sleepy hormone) will not be optimally produced, and your sleep will suffer. Dim lights in the evening (or better yet get some red ones!), reduce screen time, and give your brain a clear signal that it’s time to wind down by having a bed time routine, even in the van.

If you want to feel better, move better and keep adventuring for years to come, come and join us at the shows. We’ll be running workouts, talks and advice sessions designed to make looking after your health feel simple, realistic, and something you can actually enjoy. We want you to feel WELL! And this starts with taking small, but consistent daily action. Because at the end of the day, there’s no point having the perfect van if your body can’t keep up with it.