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27/07/2015

Factual: Health & Wellbeing

BBC Radio Scotland - Personal Best, 27/07/2015

Gillian Russell explores the trend for fitness holidays, from boot camps to yoga retreats.

Gillian Russell explores the growing trend for fitness holidays, from boot camps and yoga retreats to running in the Alps with friends and cycling around Italy with family.

Gillian Russell explores why increasing numbers of people are opting for fitness holidays and asks to what extent improving your fitness and health is important to you when you're away on a break?

Surf the net and you'll find everything from boot-camps to yoga retreats, from running in the Alps with your athletics pals to cycling with your family round Italy. Travel journalist Robin McKelvie talks about the range of fitness and health holidays available and why more people than ever are choosing wellness tourism. 

Nicki McGregor and her daughter Lucy share their experiences of two family cycling holidays in Europe, yoga instructor Charlotte Esme Turner explains why people opt for holidaying at a yoga retreat and recruits at The Camp talk about why they've chosen a boot camp for their summer holidays...

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