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Too many summer Bar-B-Qs and breakfast buffets? A trainer from NYC's Chelsea Piers helps travelers keep in shape with this quick and easy-to-do travel exercise routine.

Even if you’re not familiar with the Chelsea Piers Sports Center (212/336-6000) on New York City’s Hudson River at 23rd Street, you probably realize that the city that never sleeps spends a lot of time working out.

That’s why Chris Skoglund, who at one time was the center’s Advanced Trainer, developed a variety of simple hotel room workouts using resistance band training. Chris and other fitness experts agree that the hotel pool is probably the traveler's best source of exercise. They suggest that families try to do some laps or water play at least once a day while traveling.

But sometimes there's no pool, or you need to stay near the phone, or you just can't get the kids to leave the room. If that's the case, and you need to keep the calories at bay, here is the most basic Travel Workout designed by Chris Skoglund using a resistance band.

In Room Travel Workout

First, remember when you’re using a resistance band that these inexpensive rubber straps are color-coded depending on how much resistance they have – the more resistance, the greater the workout. You can also modify the workout by altering the distance the bands are stretched.

And, as Chris reminds his students, always actively engage the core of your body during exercise, including the torso muscles at the abdomen, obliques and lower back. Ready?

Here’s the Curl, Squat and Press, a full body exercise for anyone with enough space to stash a band in their suitcase and stand up in their hotel room.

• Start by standing in a squatting position, legs slightly wider than hip width, the resistance band stretched under the middle of both feet and held tightly by your sides.
• As you begin to straighten the legs, pull the band into a bicep curl until your fists pass your shoulders, then press arms overhead until they’re raised as high as possible. without overextending your elbows.
• Repeat.

Now try to get the kids to do it, too.