Get away for your new year health kick

IF you always seem to return from holidays feeling sluggish and tired after overindulging and under-moving, a trip that puts fitness at the forefront might be on your agenda this year.

- LAUREN TAYLOR

From packing fitness classes into your daily holiday schedule or doing a marathon mid-trip, to cycling off-road Down Under, here are some great options for trips that focus on your health.

Choose from 30 daily fitness classes in St Lucia

With the philosophy, ‘Give us your body and we'll give you back your mind,’ The BodyHoliday offers a full fitness programme on its luxury Cariblue Beach resort, which dates back to 1988.

It has 30 daily fitness classes, yoga, Pilates, tennis, water sports and a daily 50-minute spa treatment included, as well as nutritious food and drink and nightly entertainment.

St Lucia itself is a gem of the Caribbean, with its iconic Piton mountains, rainforest, pristine beaches and natural volcanic landscapes -and there are direct flights from London Gatwick in around nine hours.

■Rates start from approx £500 (single) and approx £657 (double) per night, all-inclusive. Book directly at thebodyholiday.com

Try Hyrox in Portugal

Just west of Faro in the Algarve, Quinta do Lago may be best known as a world-class golf resort, but it also has a multi-sports hub called The Campus (thecampusqdl.com/en, [phone]), a new HYROX training programme and 10-12 weekly classes.

If you haven’t heard of Hyrox yet, it combines endurance and strength with 8km of running and eight workout stations (but split up, so 1km runs are followed by one workout, eight times).

It seems the popular trend has made its way into the travel sector and now you can spend a holiday trying it out and being part of the growing global fitness community built around it.