Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Maintaining Physical and Mental Health on Business Trips 5-1-25
Thu, 01 May 2025
In this episode, Scott Becker shares candid reflections and practical strategies for maintaining physical and mental health during multi-day business conferences.
Chapter 1: Who is Scott Becker and what is the focus of this episode?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. We're going to talk today about sort of maintaining fitness and health while on business trips or at conferences and so forth. Now, we talk about this type of subject often because as, you know, whatever age you are, taking care of your physical and mental health is, is table stakes for doing everything else.
Chapter 2: Why is maintaining physical and mental health important as we age?
And we, as you get a little bit older, we treat it more and more with focus because we have to, or we let it go and we get old in a hurry. So anyways, talk about what you do. And I was having conversations with a bunch of people out there at a conference, you know, some people run early in the morning, uh,
Chapter 3: What are some strategies for staying fit during business trips and conferences?
My colleague, Holly Buckley, is organizing a thing at Barry's Boot Camp with Lance Armstrong at the Healthcare Private Equity event that McGuire Wood sponsors. For me, it's being on the road and trying to avoid impulse eating and sticking to my good habits that are not always perfect. I'm never perfect, though, of drinking so much water that I hydrate myself, taking so many steps every day.
Chapter 4: How can exercise routines be incorporated while traveling for work?
trying to, if I can, and schedule myself so I can get some exercise in the morning or at some point during the day, and then periodically trying to hit some push-ups and do some other things. We were talking to other colleagues. One's a regular, does jujitsu regularly and trying to find a way to get to a class while he is here.
Chapter 5: What role do wearables and step counts play in fitness on the road?
Others do other types of fitness classes and try to figure out if there's a way to work that into their schedules. But if not, falling back on the use of wearables and getting enough steps, trying not to overdo the coffee when you're going through too many meetings. For me, that's a real culprit, real kryptonite.
Chapter 6: How does caffeine consumption affect willpower and eating habits on business trips?
I drink so much coffee, then I lose willpower late in the day and I eat everything that I can see. It's a scary type of thing. If you're careful about your gluten or what you eat, trying to stay away from the carbs and the bread or the sugar. If I lean into the We have a team break room at the Becker's healthcare conferences.
And if I glean into the carbs in those rooms, I am so flat when I go to interview people. And so out of it, that's a horrible, horrible thing. But what you do find, what I find, and for some people, this may be easier, but for me, the level of discipline it takes, the level of willpower it takes over a multi-day conference
to stay healthy and eat right and keep myself in check and do the right things is really, really hard. And it takes real purposeful intentionality to try and schedule right, to handle it right, so I could take care of the health and fitness too. And then if you add onto that, going out for dinners at night and indulging in drinks and dinner and so forth,
You have to do all you can to sort of keep yourself in check if you're trying to recover to get back to regular life post-conference so your recovery hill is not such a big uphill mountain to climb to get back at it. Again, I know this is sort of a bit of a rambling thought. on keeping yourself healthy and fit while going to business conference, business events.
It's top of mind for us because of the last four days, we've been at the Becker's Healthcare 15th Annual Meeting at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago. And just the effort to stay away from coffee, to keep myself healthy is a real war, a real challenge.
And I know we were having a discussion here where people were talking about being gluten-free, people talking about getting their steps in, drinking enough water, not going to their fitness classes, and all those types of efforts and challenges when you're at a business event or business conference. I'd love to hear your thoughts on how you handle these things.
Some people are so good at it, it seems, not me. I try my best, but I'm not great at it. Thank you for listening to the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Thank you very, very much.
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