How does everyone stay in shape while on the road?
#31
09-09-2006, 02:43 AM
Re: !!!!!
Originally Posted by bentstrider
Originally Posted by Consider
Wow, I am so impressed! I'm WAY impressed with what you did!!!!!!
But, the sucky thing is the fact that I'm going to be "bike-less" for the six weeks of OTR training. In the meantime, I got myself one of those Polar-brand, heart rate monitors. That way, I could run/jog as an alternative to no bicycle, and/or no 24 Hr Fitness nearby. Like I posted on the bikeforums.com, I'm going to have to make those six weeks fly by so I could be using my bike again. Good luck with the training.  Sounds like you've got it scoped out.
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#32
09-09-2006, 10:06 AM
Re: How does everyone stay in shape while on the road?
Originally Posted by bentstrider
After searching all over, I came upon this sight wanting to get some methods.
Back in June of 2005, I weighed 250 pounds. As of now, I am 5'8 and weigh 170 pounds, most of it muscle obtained from working out every other day for 2-3 hours, and not wanting to own a car. I also, never went on a diet and still lost and now maintain this weight Anywho, I'm planning on giving driving another try after two years of having my CDL. I ordered a Montague folding mountain bike and plan on getting a small set of weights. Because seeing as 24Hr Fitness is primarily a West Coast thing, I'll need something to fill the gap when it's not there. This is my training regimen, does anyone else have a special method? Then I do it all over again.....repeat until you drop dead from exhaustion. :lol:
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#34
09-13-2006, 09:56 AM
I have a set of these. Awesome for quick lifting session! You can also buy a folding weight bench to take with you OTR. Also, if you can jog 2-3 miles at a time, all you need is a good pair of runing shoes and 20min/day 3-4x a weekwhenever you're stopped and you're good to gohttp://www.powerblocks.com/
#36
09-18-2006, 02:23 PM
Here's my routine:
a) Wake up at 2am. b) Go to truck (parked at warehouse). c) Drive 30-40 miles. d) Unload 1200 pounds of food by hand. e) Drive 10 minutes. f) Unload 1200 pounds by hand (again). g) Repeat 15 times per day (try to finish in under 13 hours) h) Drive 30-40 miles back to warehouse. h) Collapse. (hey, at least it's not sofas! :lol: )
#37
11-04-2006, 01:56 AM
I was thinking about you guys when I watched two doctors on Oprah the other day. They were talking about some extremely simple things that make a lot of difference in weight over time.
One was that something called gremlin... (it sounds like that, but that may not be the spelling) has an affect on how much we eat because it makes us feel satisfied... I think that's how it goes. It comes from things like nuts. So if we eat a handful of nuts a half an hour before a meal, we feel satsified sooner, as we eat. Apparently it takes us about 15 minutes to eat a meal, but our bodies take 30 minutes to register that food has been received. So by eating the nuts before hand we give ourselves the good kind of whatever gremlin is, and we also get our bodies ready to feel satisfied before we eat a second helping of everything. The thing that goes with that is something like "lepoic"... (again.. not sure of the spelling, and I couldn't find it on the web)... but... Darn.. it's become a foggy memory... I think it's the bad counterpart to gremlin... Here's the link to the show, I'm sure the book explains it... I don't read much anymore, so I'm not going to order it... If you want it, the link is provided: http://www2.oprah.com/health/yourbod..._350_201.jhtml Okay, so the next thing was to avoid hydrogenated oils... you have to read the labels on food to see this. I checked my peanut butter, because I was thinking I'd use peanut butter instead of a handful of nuts... and my peanut butter is made with hydrogenated oil. It's cheap peanut butter that was given me as a part of some food program when I was sick ... I need to get real, all peanut, peanut butter. Another thing to avoid is anything with bleached flour, or enriched flour, because "enriched" signifies that it's been stripped of everything good in it, and then a few things were put back. A woman on the show was saying how she found things with wheat only, pure wheat, and that it took her a little while to get used to wheat things when she'd been used to bleached flour things, but she lost quite a lot of weight after she made the change... it was about a pound a month... but in a year, the difference was noticable. I mean, she looked really different. (I'd need six years... which seems a bit long) Another thing to avoid is sugar... I don't eat much of that, but apparently if you eat spaghetti sauce it can be in that... so you have to look at labels. All this stuff is on the web site. (link above) I'm going to get some good peanut butter, the all peanut kind, and try that. And walking. The only exercise the doctors said we need was walking. Oh, and once a bit of fat was replaced with muscle, the muscle uses up more calories and that in itself aids weight loss. Weight, it turns out, kills with the same regularity as cancer... only we don't really hear about it in the same way. (they said) Maybe it isn't the weight, per se, but the hydrogenated oil, etc... (that's my take on it) Anyway, I just wanted to let you know these things.
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#39
11-04-2006, 02:14 AM
Wow!!!!!
Wow!!!!! Wow!!!!! I was thinking about how as kids the one thing we hear all the time, or at least I did, was "sit still." Well, that's the worst thing to do for our health, in the long run. This is an aside, but when I had tetanus it takes away strength almost completely. I had a little kitty at the time, and I couldn't pick her up. I kept thinking it was because she'd gained weight while I was sick...
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